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Pearl Harbor was a military base situated on the island of Oahu in Hawaii Japan and the USA were rivals in Pacific trade. Japan wanted to extend its control over the entire Pacific to develop its trade and become the dominant power in Asia. The government in Japan was controlled by the military and they wanted to remove all the western powers from Japan's area of influence.

Two waves of attacking planes flew 230 miles from the north east: a completely unexpected direction. They targeted “battleship row”, the naval air station on Ford Island, the army air corps base at Hickam field. They used bombs, torpedoes and machine guns to attack ships first and then any target of opportunity. 19 ships damaged, ten of them sunk, 1100 men killed on the USS Arizona alone, 2400 in total. The proposed third attack was never carried out and 29 Japanese planes and four submarines were sunk. The US declared war on Japan on the 8th of December, Germany and Italy declared war on the US on the 11th of December. After Pearl Harbor Japanese Canadians were viewed as spies, and enemies by the public and the government.Many Japanese Canadians were placed in Internment Camps during the war. Japanese Canadians couldn’t vote until 1948, they could not work as teachers, civil servants or military personnel.1928 Mackenzie King limited the amount of Japanese Canadians to 250 per year.
-Sydney

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In WW2 the women did some of the same things that they did in WW1 like being on the front lines as nurses. In WW2 women were still nurses but they were also allowed to go overseas and fight as a part of the Canadian military and they were given there own division named "Women's Army Corps" and "Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service." Women in the war were not on the front lines in fighting they were on the back lines operating radio lines and some worked as mechanics.  Women not only helped overseas they also helped back at home. Filling jobs men had in agriculture and in factories.

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Anti-Semitism is hostility or prejudice against Jewish  people. Adolf Hitler was obsessed with the hatred of Jewish people. He described them as "vermin" or "deadly poison." He wanted to create a "master race". Once Hitler became in power he started a widespread persecutions of Jewish citizens. The holocaust was the most extreme example of anti-Semitism. Jewish people started being banned and sent to concentration camps for doing nothing wrong. By: Alyssa Federico

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Canada's reaction to the outbreak of war

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Canada's reaction to the outbreak of war

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What was the Treaty of Versailles? How did it impact on Germany?
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that had helped to end World War I. The Treaty was signed on 28 June 1919 and ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
the treaty punished Germany bad. Germany had to pay for all the wartime damages. the German military got disarmed. they were stripped of territory, economic resources, etc. they were also forced to admit responsibility for the war.

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Glossary: an alphabetical list of words relating to a specific subject, text, or direct text with explanations; a brief diary
Alien - Any foreign person was seen as an enemy alien, they were seen as says sent from their ethnic countries.
Appeasement - A name given to the British Policy in the 1930’s that allowed Hitler to expand German territory without being checked. This was made to avoid war, yet it brought them closer to it.
Aryan Race - Indo-European people used ‘Aryan Race’ to describe themselves. Hitler believed that they were the master race and that one day they would take over the world. An ideal Aryan would have blue eyes, blonde hair, and pale skin.
Atomic Bomb - A bomb that releases nuclear energy that causes a massive explosive. In Hiroshima, a nuclear bomb was dropped and over 80 000 citizens were killed.
Auschwitz-Birkenau - This was a concentration camp, about 1.1 million Jews were systemically killed.
Blitzkrieg - The Germans method of warfare where the attackers use rapid and powerful forces on their enemies. This helped Germany a lot during the beginning of the war.
Censorship - Suppressing someones speech, public communication, or any other information cannot be passed because the government stops it.
Communism - All public property is own by citizens, every person that works gets paid according to their abilities and needs.
Einsatzgruppen - Death squads of the Nazis who were the ones who were responsible for the mass killing by rapidly shooting during WWII.
Genocide - The mass killing of a group of people due to their ethnic background. Many Germans were antisemites which later led them to killing 6 million Jewish people during WWII.
Ghetto - An area where living conditions are horrible.

Holocaust - When Germany put 6 million innocent Jews into concentration camps and killed them. This was the WWII genocide of the European Jews. They killed two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population.
Hyperinflation - A general price in a country rapidly and excessively goes up. Hyperinflation occurred in Germany, which was one of the causes to WW2.
Ideology - Is an idea or belief of a single person. Ideology usually refers to a set of political belief or a batch of ideas that distinguish a certain culture.
Internment Camps - These were camps where Japanese were put in during World War II because they were seen as suspicious because of the Pearl Harbour attack.
Isolationism - People or countries that did not want to get involved in foreign conflicts. This brought everyone closer to WWII because it allowed the dictators to take a hold of a lot of power which weakened the League of Nations.
Kamikaze - 'Divine Wind', these were Japanese pilots who made suicidal crashes into other ships.
Koshere - Reaching the requirements of Jewish Law.

Schutzstaffel (SS) - A paramilitary organization made by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis Party.

Lebensraum - When a nation believes that a territory or state is needed for national survival or natural development, this is mostly associated with the Nazis.
Persecution - Tormenting or oppressing a person or group of people because of their ethnicity.
Prisoners of War (POW) - A person that is being held captive by the opposing side. During the holocaust Jewish people were put in the ghettos so that they could be separated from the non-Jewish.
Refugee - A persona that runs away or leaves their country due to war, persecution, or natural disasters.
Regime - A ruling prevailing system, also known as dictatorship.

Reparation - Making up for a wrong doing using money. Since Germany had to pay so much for the first war that their economy started to be ruined.
Socialism - A belief that making, moving, and trading wealth should be taken over by the workers.
Swastika - A good luck symbyol for the Nazis. It is a combination of four L's that stand for Love, Light, Life, and Luck.
Totalitarianism - When a government try’s to apply control over the lives of its citizens.
United Nations - This is an Intergovernmental organization that currently has 193 countries with it. This organization is up and running to keep peace and security, help nations come together and be friends, achieve International cooperation, and be centre for coordinating the actions of the nations.

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In concentration camps millions of innocent citizens were imprisoned and mistreated. A very low amount survived these brutal camps. Inmates were forced to do physical labor.  The conditions of these camps were disgusting. By: Alyssa Federico

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What was the Great Depression? How did this lead to Germany going to war?

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The Battle of the Coral ocean, from four to eight might 1942, was a significant conflict between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and military service and air forces of the U.S. and Australia. going down within the Pacific Theatre of war II, the battle is traditionally vital because the 1st action during which craft carriers engaged one another and therefore the 1st during which the opposing ships neither sharp-eyed nor laid-off directly upon each other. In a trial to strengthen their defensive position within the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese set to invade and occupy Port Moresby (in New Guinea) and Tulagi (in the southeastern Solomon Islands). The plan, Operation Mo, concerned many major units of Japan's Combined Fleet. They enclosed 2 fleet carriers and a lightweight carrier to produce protection for the invasion forces, beneath the command of Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue. The U.S.A. learned of the Japanese arrange through intelligence and sent 2 United States Navy carrier task forces and a joint Australian-American cruiser force to oppose the offensive, beneath the command folks Admiral Frank J. Fletcher. On 3–4 May, Japanese forces with success invaded and occupied Tulagi, though many of their supporting warships were ruined or broken in surprise attacks by craft from the U.S.A. fleet carrier beleaguering. currently attentive to the presence of enemy carriers within the space, the Japanese fleet carriers advanced towards the Coral ocean with the intention of locating and destroying the Allied military service. On the evening of half-dozen might, the 2 carrier forces came at intervals seventy nmi (81 mi; a hundred thirty km) of every different, unbeknownst to anyone. On 7 May, each side launched airstrikes. every erroneously believed they were offensive their opponent's fleet carriers, however were truly offensive different units, with the U.S.A. sinking the Japanese light-weight carrier Shōhō and therefore the Japanese sinking a U.S.A. destroyer and heavily damaging a fleet oiler, that was later scuttled. subsequent day, all sides found and attacked the other's fleet carriers, with the Japanese fleet carrier Shōkaku broken, the U.S.A. fleet carrier Lexington critically broken and later scuttled, and beleaguering broken. With each side having suffered significant losses in craft and carriers broken or ruined, the 2 forces disengaged and retired from the realm. thanks to the loss of carrier protection, Inoue recalled the Port Moresby invasion fleet with the intention of attempting once more later. Although a finish for the Japanese in terms of ships ruined, the battle would convince be a strategic finish for the Allies in many ways in which. The battle marked the primary time since the beginning of the war that a significant Japanese advance had been checked by the Allies. a lot of significantly, the Japanese fleet carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku, the previous broken and therefore the latter with a depleted craft complement, were unable to participate within the Battle of Midway the subsequent month, however beleaguering participated on the Allied aspect, that created for rough parity in craft between the adversaries and contributed considerably to the U.S.A. finish. The severe losses in carriers at Midway prevented the Japanese from reattempting to invade Port Moresby by ocean and helped prompt their ill-starred land offensive over the Kokoda Track. 2 months later, the Allies took advantage of Japan's ensuing strategic vulnerability within the Pacific Ocean and launched the Guadalcanal Campaign. That and therefore the island Campaign eventually stone-broke Japanese defenses within the Pacific Ocean and were vital contributors to Japan's final surrender, marking the tip of war II.  By: Alexander Hinov

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Adolf Hitler - He was the leader of the Nazis party from 1920-1921 and Chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945.
Benito Mussolini - The dictator of Italy from 1925-1945, before he became the a fascist dictator of Italy he was a political leader.
Winston Churchill - The British Prime Minister that successfully guided Britain through World War II and never gave up when times went bad.
Franklin Roosevelt - The President of the United States during World War II.
Hermann Goering - He was one of the leaders of the Nazis party.
Dwight Eisenhower - He was the 34th President of the United States, during World War II he was a five star general and was a Supreme Commander.
Joseph Stalin - He was the Soviet Union Premier.
Harry Truman - Was the 33rd President of the United States, he made the decision to drop the atomic bomb for Hiroshima and he worked to maintain communism.
Neville Chamberlain - He was the Prime Minister of Britain while they entered World War II, he also came up with appeasement.
Sir William Lyon Mackenzie King-  Was the Prime Minister of Canada from 1921-1930 and 1935-1948

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genocide is killing a group of people or ethnic group so that they would no longer exist. Hitler wanted to cause genocide on the Jews for they were blamed for why the Germans lost the war - Gianfranco

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Propaganda, Censorship and enemy 'aliens'

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Propaganda, Censorship and enemy 'aliens'

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propaganda is a governmentally controlled information, in order to keep citizens, ignorant, and unaware, under control or false beliefs.

propaganda was commonly used in both wars because the government wanted to keep civilians spending money on the war effort, working on the war effort, rationing foods, and joining the military. it was used to have civilians continue helping the war because of the posters that were hung up everywhere supporting the war.

censorship was used to keep information out of civilians minds so that they don't hear things that their government doesn't want them to hear. this is especially common with dictators, and totalitarian governments.

enemy aliens are foreign people who's home country is at war with the country they are living in. so the government decides to deem them aliens believing that they are enemies of the country(they are living in), and the "aliens" would often get searched, have to report to authority often, or thrown in internment camps.

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conscription was a law that forced any able bodied man to have to
a) join the military
b) go fight over seas

conscription was used to constantly have replenished divisions of troops who were always ready to fight.

conscription was commonly promoted in posters that would tell people where their nearest military office was so they could go and volunteer.

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A brief overview of the economic, social and political impact of the Great Depression on Germany. Extract from History File.

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The Battle of Midway was a fight that took place on Midway Island in June of 1942 between the United States Navy and the Japanese Empires Navy. Around this time, the Japanese were a pretty dominant Naval power in the air and in the sea. Their attempt was to successfully attack the US Navy and neutralize it as a power in the War. The US was able to defeat the Japanese and defend a major base that was on Midway Island. This defeat for the Japanese meant that there was no longer hope in neutralizing the United States Navy which swayed the outcome of WW2 in the Pacific.

Shawn

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Indigenous and African Canadians Contributions to the War Effort 

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Indigenous and African Canadians Contributions to the War Effort 

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Who was Adolf Hitler?
Adolf Hitler was a German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. although a German politician Adolf Hitler was born in Austria. Hitler rose to power as the chancellor of Germany in 1933. During his rein as a dictator from 1933 to 1945, Adolf Hitler initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939.

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the battle of Guadalcanal was fought on both land and sea, and it lasted from august 1942 - march 1943. the battle was fought on and around the Solomon islands, with the allied forces and the Japanese soldiers, the victory is seen as one of the turning points of the war, when the war turned to the allies's favour.

the battle started when japan began to make an airbase that would threaten the allies, other bases, so the allies decided to eject the Japanese.

on the day of the initial attack the Japanese quickly readied them selves and continued the attack in the early morning.
the most sea fighting was in November in 1942, and the U.S and the Japanese were the main 2 engaged in this combat.

the battle over land was backed up by the airforce and of course the troops. the troops that originally marched on the island of Guadalcanal, were backed up by ships and planes allowing the Japanese to become separated from one another because of all of the different attacks going on(@sea, land, air). quickly after the island was taken by the allies the Japanese began planning an attack to reclaim the island believing the the Americans would be weak, because of another battle nearby. the Japanese had more troops than the Americans but they could not stop the Americans, or break through their lines effectively enough to reclaim the island and with other allied soldiers on their way the Japanese soon fell once everyone had arrived.

the battle claimed:
- 24000 Japanese men
-1600 American men
- 42000 wounded Americans
- thousands dead from tropical disease

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Battle of Guadalcanal, (August 1942-February 1943), series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. Along with the naval Battle of Midway (June 3-6, 1942), the fighting on Guadalcanal marked a turning point in favour of the Allies in the Pacific War.

The naval campaign at Guadalcanal

Landings in the southern Solomons and the Battle of Savo Island

On July 6, 1942, the Japanese moved a force consisting of troops and labourers to Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and began constructing an airfield. The Allies recognized that land-based planes operating from this field would seriously menace bases in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia as well as Port Moresby in New Guinea. Immediate steps were taken to eject the Japanese, utilizing forces that were available in the South Pacific.

On August 7, 1942, some 6,000 men of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Alexander Vandegrift, launched an amphibious assault on Guadalcanal and Florida Island, surprising Guadalcanal's 2,000 Japanese defenders. The landings were made with strong naval and air support and met with little initial resistance, and the airfield on Guadalcanal and the harbour on Florida Island were seized in the first 36 hours. The Marines named the airstrip Henderson Field, after Maj. Lofton Henderson, a Marine aviator who had perished while leading a bombing run at the Battle of Midway the previous month. Henderson Field would quickly become the centre of gravity for the conflict on Guadalcanal.

The Japanese reacted quickly, and just before 2:00 am on August 9 they struck hard at the Allied naval force supporting the operation. A force of Japanese cruisers and destroyers engaged the Allied fleet in a furious night battle that came to be called the Battle of Savo Island. The result was a disaster for the Allies. Over the course of roughly a half hour, the Japanese sank the U.S. cruisers Astoria, Quincy, and Vincennes and crippled the Australian cruiser Canberra while suffering negligible losses. Over the following months, some two dozen Japanese and Allied ships would be sunk in the waters to the north of Guadalcanal; the sea lane between Guadalcanal and Florida Island would subsequently be known to Allied sailors as Ironbottom Sound.

The Battles of the Eastern Solomons, Cape Esperance, and Santa Cruz

Japanese forces began gathering at Rabaul, New Britain, some 650 miles (roughly 1,050 km) northwest of Guadalcanal, and Vice Adm. Robert Ghormley responded by concentrating Task Force 61, under Rear Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher, southeast of Guadalcanal. The carriers USS Enterprise and USS Saratoga and the battleship USS North Carolina were supported by numerous cruisers and destroyers, as well as land-based aircraft from Henderson Field. On August 24 contact was made with the powerful 1st Carrier Division under Nagumo Chūichi, and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons ensued. Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers from the Saratoga sank the Japanese light carrier Ryujo, and Saratoga dive-bombers seriously damaged the seaplane carrier Chitose. The Enterprise was struck by dive-bombers from the Japanese carrier Shokaku, and a fire deep in the ship caused its rudder to jam. It spent nearly an hour steaming in a circle before control was restored; if a second wave of Japanese planes had not followed an erroneous position report on the American carriers, the Enterprise almost certainly would not have survived the day.

Both sides withdrew their ships from the area by midnight, and a Japanese resupply convoy under the command of Rear Adm. Tanaka Raizō attempted to force its way through to Guadalcanal without the benefit of air cover on the morning of August 25. Dive-bombers from Guadalcanal struck Tanaka's flagship, the cruiser Jintsū, and inflicted heavy damage on a Japanese troop ship. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17s scored a direct hit on the destroyer Mutsuki, sinking it. Tanaka was forced to retire, but he quickly revised his tactics, and his destroyer squadron-the so-called "Toyko Express"-would ferry tens of thousands of Japanese troops and tons of vital supplies to Guadalcanal over the following months.

During the next six weeks, no major action took place in the Solomons, although Japanese planes and submarines continued to harass the U.S. resupply effort, and Japanese surface ships shelled Henderson Field. The most notable loss during this time was the carrier USS Wasp, which was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-19 on September 15. That single torpedo attack also fatally struck the destroyer USS O'Brien and damaged the USS North Carolina. The Japanese resupplied and reinforced their positions at Guadalcanal with nightly runs of the "Tokyo Express," and Tanaka would earn a reputation as arguably the most gifted destroyer captain in the Pacific War. Just before midnight on the night of October 11, five U.S. cruisers and four destroyers under the command of Rear Adm. Norman Scott intercepted a strong Japanese surface force that was en route to Henderson Field. In the ensuing Battle of Cape Esperance, the Japanese lost the heavy cruiser Furutaka and the destroyer Fubuki, while the Americans lost the destroyer USS Duncan.

Two weeks later the much larger Battle of Santa Cruz occurred against the backdrop of a major Japanese ground offensive on Guadalcanal. U.S. commanders were anticipating a Japanese attack, and Vice Adm. William ("Bull") Halsey, who had succeeded Ghormley as commander of U.S. naval forces in the South Pacific on October 18, concentrated his available assets into two carrier battle groups. The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, which had spent nearly a month at Pearl Harbor undergoing repairs, sailed with the battleship USS South Dakota, the heavy cruiser USS Portland, and a screen of light cruisers and destroyers. The carrier USS Hornet was supported by the heavy cruisers USS Northampton and USS Pensacola and a light cruiser and destroyer escort. Against this force was arrayed Vice Adm. Nagumo Chūichi's fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku-both of which had participated in the Pearl Harbor attack-the light carrier Zuiho, the escort carrier Junyo, four battleships, and an assortment of destroyers and other support craft. The two forces met north of Guadalcanal on October 26, and the result was a tactical victory for Japan. The Hornet was sunk, as was the destroyer USS Porter, and the Enterprise was seriously damaged. Nagumo was forced to retire, however, as the Zuiho and the Shokaku had suffered numerous bomb hits and the loss of nearly 100 aircraft had left him without a significant portion of his naval air complement. The Japanese retreat bought the Americans a much needed breathing spell.

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

The climax of sea fighting in the Solomons came in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (November 12-15, 1942). On November 11-12, the U.S. landed a sizable contingent of reinforcements and supplies on the island. At roughly the same time, a fleet of Japanese transports, carrying some 7,000 men, steamed southward from Rabaul behind an escort of several battleships and a large screen of cruisers and destroyers. When the Americans detected this force descending on their vulnerable transports and cargo vessels, they dispatched a force of cruisers and destroyers to fight a delaying action. The result was a series of violent confrontations that inflicted heavy losses on both sides, but left the United States in a position of strength in the southern Solomons.

Just after midnight on November 13, the U.S. task force, under the command of Rear Adm. Daniel Callaghan, engaged Japanese ships commanded by Vice Adm. Abe Hiroaki. The battle that followed was a brutal 24-minute melee that saw capital ships on both sides blasting away at extremely close range. The Japanese lost the battleship Hiei while the U.S. lost the cruisers USS Atlanta and USS Juneau as well as several destroyers. Callaghan and Rear Adm. Norman Scott were killed in the engagement; they were the only two flag officers of the U.S. Navy to be killed in a surface engagement in World War II.

On November 14 Japanese cruisers and destroyers shelled Henderson Field, and another invasion force was discovered north of Guadalcanal. The Japanese ships were subjected to air attacks throughout the day, and that night they were engaged by the battleships USS Washington and USS South Dakota. About midnight, contact was made north of Savo Island, and another fierce night action ensued. The Japanese lost the battleship Kirishima and the heavy cruiser Kinugasa, and the U.S. lost three more destroyers.

The land campaign on Guadalcanal

The initial amphibious assault on the southern Solomons represented a superb coordination of Allied naval, air, and ground forces. Warships laid down heavy barrages to screen the approach of troop transports and carrier-based planes, and U.S. Army Air Forces bombers softened Japanese defenses. Landing craft took the Marines ashore at key points throughout the islands. The Marines rapidly secured a beachhead on Guadalcanal and captured the almost-complete airstrip that would become Henderson Field. They also seized the smaller islands of Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanombogo. While the Japanese construction units on Guadalcanal were overcome with comparative ease-or simply melted away into the jungle-the defenders of Tulagi and Gavatu included elements of the elite Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF), and they fought desperately. The battle for Tulagi saw the Japanese garrison destroyed virtually to the last man; this would serve as a grim preview of later engagements in the U.S. campaign in the Pacific.

Almost as soon as the U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal, Japanese commanders began making preparations for the retaking of the island. Vandegrift had concentrated some 11,000 Marines into a tight defensive perimeter centred on Henderson Field. He had been warned of an imminent attack, thanks to the efforts of U.S. cryptanalysts, who had penetrated the Japanese naval code. The Japanese, believing that the Americans had withdrawn many of their troops after the stinging defeat at Savo Island, vastly underestimated the strength of the U.S. presence on Guadalcanal. In the predawn hours of August 21, the Japanese launched their first ground offensive on Guadalcanal. At the Battle of the Tenaru (also called the Battle of Alligator Creek), U.S. Marine defenders annihilated a force of some 900 veteran Japanese army troops east of Henderson Field.

Shelling by Japanese ships and aerial bombardment from Japanese planes became routine, but the U.S. defenders were able to cling to their narrow toehold on Guadalcanal, thanks in part to the efforts of the so-called " Cactus Air Force," a motley collection of Marine, U.S. Army Air Forces, and U.S. Navy aviators operating out of Henderson Field. Cactus Air Force pilots shot down more than 150 Japanese planes in the first five weeks of the battle, and Henderson's bomber contingent pounded Japanese warships and transports. On September 13-14, U.S. Marine Corps Col. Merritt ("Red Mike") Edson, the 800 Marines of the 1st Raider Battalion, and a handful of Marine parachute troops were subjected to one of the most intense assaults on Henderson Field thus far, when they were attacked by a Japanese force more than three times their size. Their tenacious defense in what came to be called the Battle of Edson's Ridge helped to cement the reputation of the Raiders in Marine lore and earned Edson the Medal of Honor.

The Japanese forces on the island reached a peak strength of 36,000 troops by October, but they were unable to overwhelm the Americans' defensive perimeter and retake the airfield. The hardest fighting occurred on October 24-25, when a single Marine battalion was all that stood between Henderson Field and two Japanese regiments. The 1st Battalion of the 7th Marine Division, commanded by Lieut. Col. Chesty Puller, repelled the Japanese assault and inflicted heavy casualties on the attackers. Reinforced by soldiers of the 164th Infantry Regiment, the first U.S. Army unit to land on Guadalcanal, Puller's Marines weathered repeated Japanese charges and held their positions. Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" during the engagement, and Puller received his third Navy Cross (of an eventual five). By November the U.S. Navy was able to land reinforcements on Guadalcanal faster than the Japanese, and Allied counterattacks had steadily pushed the Japanese toward the northwest part of the island.

In December the 1st Marine Division was withdrawn after four months of intense combat, and the U.S. 25th Infantry Division began arriving on Guadalcanal. At the start of 1943, Allied combat strength on Guadalcanal stood at two U.S. Army divisions and a Marine regiment, totaling some 44,000 troops. Offensive operations continued through January 1943, narrowing and compressing the Japanese position. During the first week of February, light surface craft began evacuating the 12,000 remaining Japanese troops from Guadalcanal. On February 8, 1943, almost exactly six months after the initial landings, the last remaining Japanese pocket of resistance was eliminated, and Guadalcanal was at last firmly in Allied hands.

Outcome and casualties

Although U.S. losses were heavy in both the naval and ground campaigns, the Battle of Guadalcanal was decisive in that U.S. positions in the southern Solomons were never again seriously threatened. The Japanese lost a total of 24,000 men killed in the Battle of Guadalcanal, while the Americans sustained 1,600 killed, 4,200 wounded, and several thousand dead from malaria and other tropical diseases. The various naval battles cost each side 24 warships: the Japanese lost 2 battleships, 4 cruisers, 1 light carrier, 11 destroyers, and 6 submarines, while the Americans lost 8 cruisers, 2 heavy carriers, and 14 destroyers.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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What was the Nazi Party and what did they stand for?

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The Bombing of Japan - August 1945 ~By Natasha Fonseca. 

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The Bombing of Japan - August 1945 ~By Natasha Fonseca. 

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President Harry S. Truman, allowed newly invented nuclear weapons to be used on Japan, due to refusal of the offered terms. In the skies of Hiroshima, a base where the military headquarters was located, an American bomber carried a metre long atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The city was covered in a huge cloud of smoke that enveloped the whole area. Building and homes were destroyed. Around 173,000 people were dead or dying, with victim affected by radiation. Although the deaths of the atomic bomb was a high number, the Japanese didn't surrender. So the U.S dropped another bomb causing 95000 deaths and injuries. Many people died with high fevers, burns, bleeding gums, and rotting skin. Hair falling out were signs of the massive amounts of radiation.

On September 2, 1945, Japan officially surrendered causing World War Ⅱ to end.

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Internment camps were prison camps for the confinement of prisoners of war (enemy aliens, political prisoners etc).
These camps were established by the Canadian Government during WW1 and WW2. People were held in confinement all across the country and by the end of the Second World War, aproximatley 12,000 Japanese Canadians had been in-prisoned.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/internment

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The league of nations would only suggest for countries not to attack each other this mean that if someone attacked anyway they couldn't do much about it. - Gianfranco

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By: Paulina Sieczka.

World War II is often falsely identified as the first time that American women worked outside of the home in large numbers. About 25% of women worked outside the home in 1940. Before World War II, however, women's paid labor was largely restricted to "traditionally female" professions, such as typing or sewing, and most women were expected to leave the labor force as soon as they had children, if not as soon as they married.

World War II changed both the type of work women did and the volume at which they did it. Five million women entered the workforce between 1940-1945. The gap in the labor force created by departing soldiers meant opportunities for women. In particular, World War II led many women to take jobs in defense plants and factories around the country. These jobs provided unprecedented opportunities to move into occupations previously thought of as exclusive to men, especially the aircraft industry, where a majority of workers were women by 1943.

https://www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-i-1914-1918

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By: Paulina Sieczka

Although the women were taken away their jobs after the war, they gained a new confidence in their abilities.

When the war ended in 1945 “so did the extraordinary job opportunities for women” (Colman, P. 1995). Although women made a lot of progress during the war, their roles changed again after the war as men returned to their jobs. Women were expected to “give up their wartime jobs and resuming their homemaking role full-time”.

Slowly, women returned to the labor force “either because of economic convenience, the desire to buy more consumer products, or economic necessity. Other women returned to work simply because they wanted the satisfaction [of working]” (Farm Life). Women began to take new positions that were not in existence when the war began. These jobs “came about from the technological advances made throughout the war” (A Change in Gender Roles).

https://www.warmuseum.ca/learn/dispatches/the-canadian-womens-army-corps-1941-1946/#tabs

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By: Paulina Sieczka.

Women pushed to be accepted into official military service. In 1941, the Canadian army, air force, and navy each created a women's division - the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC), the Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force (CWAAF), and the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS). By the end of the war, Canadian women in uniform numbered 50, 000. Another 4500 women were in the medical services.

Women were not sent into front-line combat, but they did essential work behind the lines. Some worked as radio operators, guiding back planes and ships from battle missions. Others were mechanics, welders, armorers, or workers in armed forces headquarters. In first-aid posts and in hospitals in Europe and Britain, nurses and Red Cross workers treated the wounded and dying.

The Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC)  - The Canadian Women's Army Corps is an Canadian organization which recruited women to carry out many of the support and clerical jobs that soldiers performed, with the goal of freeing up men for combat. 40% of the women who enlisted said that patriotism was their motivation. This organization was disbanded on August 31, 1946.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadian-womens-army-corps

The Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force (CWAAF) were wartime pioneers. Thousands of young Canadian women volunteered to serve at home and abroad during the Second World War as part of the air force. This organization was disbanded on August 31, 1946.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rcaf-womens-division

Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS) - The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service is another Canadian organization established as a separate service from the Royal Canadian Navy  (RCN) and remained so until demobilization was completed and the service disbanded on 31 August 1946.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/womens-royal-canadian-naval-service

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Women of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS)

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Women of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS)

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The Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force (CWAAF)

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The Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force (CWAAF)

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By: Paulina Sieczka.