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= = =World War II Review=



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 * Japan, Italy, and Germany became totalitarian regimes
 * 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria
 * Italy Benito Mussolini expanded boundaries in Libya and in 1935 conquered Ethiopia
 * Germany militarized its economy and reoccupied Rhineland, Hitler incorporated Austria in the German Reich and demanded Sudeten land from Czechoslovakia
 * Munich conference- allowed Germany to obtain the Sudetenland as long as they do not expand more. Germany signed an agreement, but the broke the promise after invading Poland which started the war

United States and Neutrality
> ==== > arrying those goods
 * Prohibited trade in arms with any warring nations, required cash for all other commodities, and forbade American flag merchant ships from c
 * Lend-Lease Program- enabled America to transfer arms and equipment to any nation
 * September 1940, passed first peacetime conscription bill (draft) and gave British 50 "overage" destroyers for British air and naval base s
 * 1940 Presidential election makes FDR the only President to be elected to a third term
 * August 1941, met with Churchill to create Atlantic Charter- similar to Wilson's 14 points and called for no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes without the consent of the people; right of people to choose own form of government; restoration of self-government; economic collaboration between all nations; freedom from war; freedom of the seas

The Pacific War
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 * 12/7/41 Pearl Harbor
 * Japan attacked Hawaii harbor destroying 21 ships, 323 aircraft were destroyed or damaged, 2388 deaths to s oldiers and civilians
 * As a result, in February of 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans in California were sent to internment camps for fear of an invasion
 * 12/8/41 congress declared war 12/11/41 Italy and Germany declared war on the U.S.
 * September 1940, Japan joins Rome-Berlin Axis
 * July 1941 Japan occupies Indochina (South Vietnam)
 * U.S. puts embargo on export of scrap iron and oil

North Africa and Europe

 * 1942, battles waged back and forth between British and German forces in Africa until U.S. sent tanks for General Sir Bernard Montgomery to defeat General Erwin Rommel
 * 1942-1943, Soviet Union defeats Germans at Stalingrad and begin offensive
 * July 1943, British and American forces invade Italy
 * Mussolini falls from power and successors issue surrender after the mainland of Italy was invaded
 * U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Commander of Allied Forces in Europe
 * 6/6/44 Allies invade five beaches in Normandy
 * 5/7/44 Germany surrendered unconditionally

Holocaust
The Holocaust was an inconceivable tragedy to strike not only the German Jewish population, but also every territory under German control during World War II. This affected not only the Jewish population, but also any person seen as unfit to be propelled in to Hitler’s perfect race. This includes Gypsies, Polish, the mentally and physically handicapped, as well as those who spoke out against the Third Reich. The Holocaust killed fifty-three million people. The concentration and death camps were a place of unimaginable horror and despair, as the inmates were sent to gas chambers, or worked to death. The holocaust is the greatest most terrible crime ever committed in history where over six million men, women, and children were slaughtered.

United States Economy Statistics

 * **Distribution of Family Income** ||
 * || 1941 || 1944 ||
 * Wealthiest 5% || 24 || 20.7 ||
 * Wealthiest 20% || 48.8 || 45.8 ||
 * Second Wealthiest 20% || 22.3 || 22.2 ||
 * Middle 20% || 15.3 || 16.2 ||
 * Second Pooresr 20% || 9.5 || 10.9 ||
 * Poorest 20% || 4.1 || 4.9 ||


 * **Labor Force Participation** ||
 * || Males || Females ||
 * 1940 || 55% || 28% ||
 * 1944 || 62% || 37% ||
 * 1947 || 57% || 31% ||


 * **Average Earnings** ||
 * 1940 || $1,300 ||
 * 1944 || $2,108 ||
 * 1947 || $2,589 ||


 * **Personal Savings** ||
 * 1940 || 4.2 billion ||
 * 1941 || 11.1 billion ||
 * 1942 || 27.7 billion ||
 * 1943 || 33.0 billion ||
 * 1944 || 36.9 billion ||
 * 1945 || 28.7 billion ||
 * 1946 || 13.5 billion ||
 * 1947 || 4.7 billion ||

Word O' The Days!

 * 1) Surreptitious: marked by quiet and caution; avoid secrecy
 * 2) Opulent: characterized by rich abundance verging on ostentation
 * 3) Conformist: to blend, to adopt
 * 4) Fastidious: meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards
 * 5) Concession: the act of conceding or giving in/compromising/yielding
 * 6) Appeasement: give in to demands of aggressors
 * 7) Hegemony: control, domination, supremacy, authority
 * 8) Conscription: draft, enrollment
 * 9) Impetuous: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought of deliberation; impulsive
 * 10) Moratorium: legally authorized period of suspension, freeze or delay
 * 11) Cordial: friendly, pleasant, affable, amiable
 * 12) Ominous: threatening, menacing, gloomy
 * 13) Fervor: intensity of feeling or expression, passion, enthusiasm, zeal
 * 14) Plausible: reasonable, believable, possible, probable
 * 15) Indigent: poor; needy; impoverished; destitute
 * 16) Exacerbate: to make worse; or aggravate
 * 17) Disseminate: to spread, disperse, broadcast something (esp. information)
 * 18) Disillusioned: having lost one's ideals, illusions, or false ideas, about someone or something; disenchanted
 * 19) Secular: wordly, nonreligious, nonspiritual
 * 20) Succinct: to be brief, concise, or to the point in writing or speech
 * 21) Sever: separate, disunite, part, divide
 * 22) Gregarious: instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
 * 23) Provincial: of or associated with a province
 * 24) Cursory: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
 * 25) Disarmament: act of reducing or depriving of arms
 * 26) Belligerent: characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

People

 * 1) United States: FDR, Trueman
 * 2) Great Britain: Churchill
 * 3) Soviet Unnion: Stalin
 * 4) Germany: Hitler
 * 5) Italy: Mousilini
 * 6) Japan: Hirohito

Dates

 * 1931 Japan invades Manchuria
 * 1932 FDR becomes president
 * 1933 Hitler comes to power
 * 9/1/39 Germany invades Poland begins WWII
 * 12/7/41 Pearl Harbor
 * 6/6/44 D-Day invasion of Normandy France
 * 5/8/45 VE-Day celebrates the fall of Germany
 * 8/6/45 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
 * 9/2/45 VJ-Day end of WWII