World War II by Alina Pougatch

World War II by Alina Pougatch https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4 en-us 2023-04-03 19:16:59 UTC 2023-04-11 19:12:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542679556 In 1936, General Francisco Franco led and army to overthrow the Spanish republic government and institute a fascist way of life. This inspired revolts all over Spain and also caused Americans to create the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and travel to Spain to support the Spanish republic. Hitler and Mussolini supported he fascist armies in Spain by sending supplies and weapons, and this strengthened the relationship between Germany and Italy, creating the Rome - Berlin Axis. In 1939, Franco’s army won the Spanish Civil War and he became a totalitarian, fascist dictator.]]> 2023-04-03 19:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542679556 Policy of Appeasement pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542679704 Adolf Hitler was determined to take as much land surrounding Germany as he could to satisfy his wishes to have control over valuable resources and land for Germans to live on. Since many Germans lived in Austria, he was able to take control of that land with very little resistance. In order to take control of his next piece of land, Hitler created propaganda and fake news about Czechoslovakia murdering Germans who lived there. He then met with leaders of France and Great Britain, who had earlier promised to protect Czechoslovakia, and convinced them that if they allowed him to take Sudetenland, he would stop trying to take over more land. Trying their best to avoid war and trusting Hitler’s promises, Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain agreed over to hand over Sudetenland to Hitler. By doing so, Chamberlain and Daladier chose a policy of appeasement, pleasing and satisfying Hitler by breaking the honor they held to Czechoslovakia. Winston Churchill strongly disagreed with this decision and stated that Britain and France chose dropping their principles over going to war, but ultimately, their decision will lead to war either way.]]> 2023-04-03 19:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542679704 The Final Stage pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542679817 Hitler called his top officials to a meeting that was held in Wannsee, near Berlin. In the meeting they all agreed on a new phase of mass murder because the overworking, starvation, beatings, and bullets did not kill the Jews fast enough to satisfy the nazis. They wanted to add poison gas to murder all the Jews faster. The Germans built 6 death camps in Poland and several huge chambers in each that could fit 12,000 people. One of the largest camps was Auschwitz. When the Jews walked in the camp, doctors directing them to work if strong enough or to death if to weak.]]> 2023-04-03 19:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542679817 The Atlantic Charter pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542680168 U.S. President Roosevelt and Great Britain’s prime minister Churchill convened on the USS Augusta battleship to discuss their goals for war. Both leaders agreed on ideas of self determination, freedom from fear, freedom of the seas, and nations working together on economics and security. This agreement was known as the Atlantic Charter, and is seen as the foundation of “A Declaration of the United Nations.” The United Nations started as a collection of 26 Allies working to defeat the Axis powers of WWII, and ended up with 47 Allied nations in total.]]> 2023-04-03 19:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542680168 Pearl Harbor pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542680253 In 1941, the Japanese navy and Air Force attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States’ biggest Pacific naval base. 21 American ships and over 300 American aircrafts were damaged, and thousands of Americans were killed. This was devastating to the American military because so much of their equipment and soldiers were gone. America was also now fighting on two different fronts. President Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S.]]> 2023-04-03 19:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542680253 Women in the Military and Military Production pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542681742 Marshall pushed for the formation of a Women’s Auxiliary Army Corp (WAAC) to expand the military. The bill for WAAC became law on May 15, 1942. Few of the benefits that Army men received were not given to the women until July 1943 when they dropped the “auxiliary” status and gave them full U.S Army benefits. The women (WAC) worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, pilots, and almost every duty that doesn’t involve direct combat. The first women the join Women Air-force Service Pilots (WASP) was Cornelia Fort, she witnessed the bobbing of Pearl Harbor from the air. ]]> 2023-04-03 19:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542681742 Internment Of Japanese Americans pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542681910 After Pearl Harbor the government feared that German, Italian, and Japanese would want to sabotage in order to help the enemy. The Italians and Germans that immigrated to the U.S were considered “enemy aliens”. Many Germans and Italians were sent to prison but Japanese had something worst. The Japanese were relocated to an internment camp. In February 1942, president Roosevelt signed the executive order 9066, it was a removal of all Japanese ancestry in California, Oregon, Arizona, and parts of Washington. He also announced that this step was necessary for national security. Most of the people that were sent to the “relocation centers” were nisei, or Japanese people that were born in the U.S. But after many fights that the Japanese lost against the government, president Ronald Reagan signed the bill that promised $20,000 to every Japanese American that was sent to a relocation camp. And when the money was sent, George bush added a letter, “We can never fully right the wrongs of the past. But we can take a clear stand for justice and recognize that serious injustice were done to Japanese Americans during World War 2.”]]> 2023-04-03 19:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542681910 D-Day pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542682031 General Dwight D. Eisenhower coordinated “Operation Overlord” - the Allied invasion of Normandy. To throw off the Germans, the Allies created a fake army and sent fake radio messages suggesting an attack on the port of Calais. Hitler sent a large army to “defend” the French port and on June 6th, 1944, D-Day began. The Allies attacked from the air and the sea. The Germans retaliated by attacking spots like Omaha Beach.]]> 2023-04-03 19:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542682031 Battle of Stalingrad pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542682272 After the cold winter of 1941 in the Soviet Union, Hitler was ready to take over Stalingrad, Stalin’s namesake city which was also a huge industrial center. German soldiers were overly confident in how easy it would be for them to take over this city. Soviet officers saw abandoning the city as the only option to get out of this situation, but Stalin refused to give up Stalingrad without a fight. Once the next winter came by, the Soviets were able to surround the Germans and trap them in Stalingrad with no path to supplies, forcing them to surrender. Although millions of Soviet soldiers died in this battle, the victory marked a turning point for the Allies in this World War.]]> 2023-04-03 19:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542682272 The Battle of Leyte Gulf pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542682874 During the battle of Leyte Gulf the Japanese there their entire fleet into battle. The new tactic was called the kamikaze, the Japanese pilots crash their bomb-landed planes into allied ships. They sunk 16 ships and damaged 80 ships in the Philippines using the tactic. Vice Admiral Charles Brown viewed this as “a strange mixture of respect and pity”. The battle of the Leyte Gulf was a disaster for Japan.]]> 2023-04-03 19:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542682874 Island Hopping pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542683224 The Allie’s began the “island hopping” so that they didn’t attack the other islands. This new method used combinations of the land, sea, and Air Force to capture islands while avoiding the enemy forces. With this method they won each island from the Japanese which allowed them to get closer to Japan. Guadalcanal wanted to succeed without risky invasions. During the island hopping the Japanese strongholds we’re isolated and the defenders were offer right weaken from starvation and death. ]]> 2023-04-03 19:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542683224 The Manhattan Project and Hiroshima and Nagasaki pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542683705 During WWII, numerous atomic weapons were created by the U.S. government. J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the Manhattan Project, the “best kept secret of the war.” It was the creation of an atomic bomb which was tested in an empty desert in New Mexico. On August 6th, the U.S. released an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, destroying the city. When Japanese leaders refused to give in, another bomb nicknamed Fat Man was dropped over the city of Nagasaki, killing roughly 200,000 people from the radiation of the bomb. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito “couldn’t bear to see his people suffer,” so he surrendered the war.]]> 2023-04-03 19:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542683705 United Nations pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542683784 After the end of WWII, Allied leaders met and discussed their intentions for lasting world peace. After 2 months of meeting, they came to an agreement in the form of a charter. On October 24th, 1945, China, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the U.S., and other Allies became a part of the United Nations (UN). They created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to prevent another tragedy like the Holocaust and to declare equal rights of human beings. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were the two most powerful nations in the world and ironically, them both being in the UN only led to debates and competition between them.]]> 2023-04-03 19:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2542683784 jagielski8042 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2543900178 Alina Pougatch and Emily Jagielski]]> 2023-04-04 16:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2543900178 Hitlers “Final Solution” jagielski8042 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2543931866 Hitler desired to get rid of Jews in Europe, caused him to impose the “Final Solution”- a policy of genocide. During this time the Nazis condemned the Jews to slavery and death. He also eliminated all the enemies the helped the Jews- Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah Witnesses, etc. Jews were forced to relocate to concentration camps, it was designed for the nazis to use the Jews to warehouse other “undesirables”. The life on the camp was a cycle of hunger, humiliation, and work that almost always ended in death.]]> 2023-04-04 16:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2543931866 pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2549170686 World War II led to the opening of millions of jobs in the U.S. Workers were needed for war plants, in the military, and for government agencies. In the long term, the war also led to the creation of the United Nations, an encourage world peace as a common goal amongst many countries in the world.]]> 2023-04-10 19:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2549170686 jagielski8042 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2549173559 Hitler had a desire to kill all Jews, he imposed the “final solution”, it was genocide for the Jews. And during the time of him killing all the Jews he kills all the enemies too. The Jews we also sent to concentration camps, but not only did the Jews get sent to camps during the war but Japanese Americans were sent in camps too. Both camps starved them which slowly killed them and put them to work. Japanese Americans were in war with many islands. But after a few years they defeated everyone.]]> 2023-04-10 19:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2549173559 pougatch1281 https://padlet.com/pougatch1281/2ocm0iirnsox89b4/wish/2549181368 “The Atlantic Charter.” FDR Presidential Library & Museum,
https://www.fdrlibrary.org/atlantic-charter.

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National Park Service).” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.htm.

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Mar. 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfuzrRfqsOw.

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II: D-Day, The Invasion of Normandy | Eisenhower Presidential Library, https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/world-war-ii-d-day-invasion-normandy.

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