https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh Made with whimsy en-us 2021-04-27 12:10:53 UTC 2026-02-13 00:46:38 UTC hello@padlet.com avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1463898933 Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt, alerting the president of the importance of research on nuclear chain reactions and the possibility that research may lead to the development of powerful bombs. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1463898933 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1463988633 President Roosevelt approves production of the atomic bomb following receipt of a National Academy sciences report determining that a bomb is feasible. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1463988633 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1463996475 President Roosevelt instructs the Army to take responsibility for construction of an atomic weapons complex. The Army delegates the task to the Corps of Engineers, which establishes the Manhattan Engineer District ]]> 2021-04-27 12:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1463996475 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464009359 Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, selects Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the site for facilities to produce nuclear materials. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464009359 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464023195 Groves selects Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site for separate scientific laboratory to design an atomic bomb. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464023195 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464033597 Metallurgical Laboratory scientists led by Enrico Fermi achieve the first self- sustained nuclear chain reaction in pile constructed under the west grandstand at Stagg field in Chicago. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464033597 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464046100 Groves selects Hanford, Washington, as site for-full scale plutonium production and separation facilities. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464046100 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464053610 President Roosevelt dies. Harry S. Truman becomes president.]]> 2021-04-27 12:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464053610 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464060230 Germany Surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464060230 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464064528 Los Alamos scientists successfully test a plutonium implosion bomb in the Trinity shot at Alamogordo, New Mexico. ]]> 2021-04-27 12:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464064528 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464072727 The uranium bomb, called Little Boy, is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.]]> 2021-04-27 12:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464072727 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464077512 The plutonium bomb, called Fat Man, is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Five days later, Japan surrenders.]]> 2021-04-27 12:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1464077512 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485016689 Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case upholding the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during WWII.]]> 2021-05-03 13:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485016689 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485023964 The interment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most whom live on the Pacific Coast. ]]> 2021-05-03 13:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485023964 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485045643 Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of "arms, ammunition, and implements of war" from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license. ]]> 2021-05-03 13:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485045643 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485077118 The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.]]> 2021-05-03 13:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485077118 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485120866 Cash and Carry was a policy created by President D. Roosevelt announced at a joint session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939. It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1937, which belligerents could purchase only normality goods from the United States as long as the recipients paid immediately in cash. ]]> 2021-05-03 13:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485120866 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485126047 The Women`s Army Corps was the women`s branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women`s Army Auxiliary Corps on May 15, 1942, by Pub. L. 77-554, and converted to an active duty status in the Army of the United States as the WAC on July 1, 1943.]]> 2021-05-03 13:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485126047 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485148828 The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942, 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. ]]> 2021-05-03 13:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485148828 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485156601 The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. 

]]> 2021-05-03 13:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485156601 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485168348 The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board and the Office of Production Management. ]]> 2021-05-03 13:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485168348 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485182393 The Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was an agency of the United States federal government created to coordinate scientific research for military purposes during World War II. Arrangements were made for its creation during May 1941, and it was create formally by Executive Order 8807 on June 28, 1941.]]> 2021-05-03 13:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485182393 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485190075 The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II.]]> 2021-05-03 13:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485190075 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485392106 The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on June 6, 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overload during World War II. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485392106 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485396593 The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties as it brought World War I to an end. The treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The treaty was signed on June 28, 1919. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485396593 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485409881 The Battle of the Buldge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from December 16 1944 to January 25, 1945. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485409881 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485418011 The Wannsee Conference was a major meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20, 1942. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485418011 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485426092 The Potsdam conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented respectively by Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485426092 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485432817 On December 8, 1940, President Roosevelt proposed the Lend- Lease Act. The act gave President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nations official position of neutrality. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485432817 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485438620 The term "final solution of the Jewish Question" was an euphemism used by Nazi Germany`s leaders. It referred to the mass murder of Europe` Jews. It brought an end to policies aimed at encouraging or forcing Jews to leave the German Reich and other parts of Europe. The final solution took place from 1941- 1945.]]> 2021-05-03 14:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485438620 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485451294 The Italian Campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945. It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945, 60,000- 70,000 Allied and 38, 805- 150,660 German soldiers died in Italy.]]> 2021-05-03 14:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485451294 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485459991 The Yalta conference was a meeting of the three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Chuchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta.]]> 2021-05-03 14:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485459991 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485466200 The North African Campaign of the second World War took place in North Africa from June 10, 1942 to May 13, 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign), and in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), as well as in Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign)]]> 2021-05-03 14:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485466200 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485471826 The Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan on December 8, 1941, nine hours after the attack on Peal Harbor. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485471826 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485480117 The Battle of Leyte Gulf is considered to have been the largest naval battle of World War II, and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.]]> 2021-05-03 14:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485480117 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485484768 The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. This event took from April 1, 1945- June 22, 1945. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485484768 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485493870 The battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII. This event took place from February 19, 1945- March 26, 1945. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485493870 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485500139 The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on June 4-7, 1942, six months after Japan`s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:40:31 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485500139 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485506446 The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American Forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 to February 9, 1943, on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.]]> 2021-05-03 14:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485506446 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485512089 The Battle of the Coral Sea, from May 4 to May 8 in 1942, was a major naval battle between the imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia.]]> 2021-05-03 14:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485512089 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485518377 The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.]]> 2021-05-03 14:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485518377 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485535122 The discrimination African Americans experienced within the military in Hawaii fueled their fight to see the "Double V" campaign succeed. However, their experience of life within a community that didn`t have such established racial ideas demonstrates what a double victory could achieve. The double victory campaign took place from 1942-1945.]]> 2021-05-03 14:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485535122 avacook12 https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485546947 The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the Naval history of World War II. The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U- boats and other warships of the German Kriegsmarine (Navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (Airforce) against the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, United States Navy, and Allied merchant shipping. ]]> 2021-05-03 14:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/avacook12/4elyqawgnan0b1dh/wish/1485546947