https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo en-us 2018-02-07 15:45:54 UTC 2018-02-12 23:15:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229154165 "Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan." The U.S.A. was mad at Japan because they were fighting China. Japan was trying to take over the economy of China. Later Washington D.C. and Tokyo were negotiating about China. They could not come to an agreement war was inevitable]]> 2018-02-07 15:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229154165 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229154423  The leaders of the Allies were Franklin Roosevelt (the United States), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin (the Soviet Union).The common purpose of the Allies was to defeat the Axis powers and create a peaceful post-war world. Its creation was a response to the aggression and unprovoked war the Axis had unleashed upon the world. Each country had different ideas about what this post war world would look like. Churchill and Britain wanted to create a post-war Europe that would prevent Germany from rising again. Roosevelt and the United States wanted a permanent end to the fascist regimes of Germany, Italy and Japan and to foster democracy throughout the world.  Stalin and the Soviet Union wanted to both crush Germany and gain influence over Europe. The United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union coordinated their foreign and military policies and created institutions in common to support these policies and win the war.
The main Axis powers were Germany, Japan and Italy. The Axis leaders were Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Emperor Hirohito (Japan).The Axis alliance began with Germany partnering with Japan and Italy and was cemented in September 1940 with the Tripartite Pact, also known as the Three-Power Pact, which had the “prime purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things… to promote the mutual prosperity and welfare of the peoples concerned.”  They supported each other’s goal for territorial expansion, wanted the destruction of the Soviet Union and acknowledged each other’s supremacy in their respective geographic areas.]]> 2018-02-07 15:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229154423 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229154708 The Second World War in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany in May 1945, but both May 8 and May 9 are celebrated as V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. This double celebration occurs because the Germans surrendered to the Western Allies (including Britain and the U.S.) on May 8th, but a separate surrender took place on May 9 in Russia. In the East, the war ended when Japan surrendered unconditionally on August 14th , signing their surrender on September 2nd. In the East, the war ended when Japan surrendered unconditionally on August 14th, signing their surrender on September 2nd.The Japanese surrender occurred after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August. The date of the Japanese surrender is known as Victory Over Japan Day or V-J Day.]]> 2018-02-07 15:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229154708 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229155262 The pistol was notoriously inaccurate and useful only in close combat. This weapon was carried by infantry officers, tank crews and pilots. There were no significant innovations from those pistols used in World War 1. All were semi-automatic. (Each trigger pull fired a single shot.)
United States: By 1945, the standard rifle was the 9 lb Garand M1 (John Garand) with a maximum range of 5500 feet. The rifle was semi automatic and self loading.  It was gas operated and fed with an 8 clip .30 caliber cartridge. Its sight was extremely accurate and the gun unaffected by weather. The butt carried swabs, brush and cleaning rod. Its simplicity was confirmed by every infantryman who could it tear it down and put it together in the dark. It was described as 9 plus pounds of terrific "knock down" power and never jammed.The Thompson gun had its origin at the end of world War 1. It was the notorious weapon of choice for 1930's gangsters when known as the "Tommy" gun.The gun was fully automatic. (Gun continuously fires as long as the trigger remains depressed.) These were just a few of the gun types used in World War 2]]> 2018-02-07 15:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229155262 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229155693      Near the end of the war, when Germany's military force was collapsing, the Allied armies closed in on the Nazi concentration camps. The Soviets approached from the east, and the British, French, and Americans from the west. The Germans began  to move the prisoners out of the camps near the front and take them to be used as forced laborers in camps inside Germany. Prisoners were first taken by train and then by foot on "death marches," as they became known.Prisoners were forced to march long distances in bitter cold, with little or no food, water, or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot. The largest death marches took place in the winter of 1944-1945, when the Soviet army began its liberation of Poland. Nine days before the Soviets arrived at Auschwitz, the Germans marched tens of thousands of prisoners out of the camp toward Wodzislaw, a town thirty-five miles away, where they were put on freight trains to other camps. About one in four died on the way.]]> 2018-02-07 15:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229155693 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229155960 Adolf Hitler was born on April 20 1889. He was the leader of the Nazi party. He led them to kill 11million people including the mass murder of 6 million Jewish people. He commuted suicide on April 30 1945. He Took poison and so did his wife. He also shot himself to make sure he would die. The worst part is He tested the poison on his dog and her pups. In my opinion he is the worst person ever.]]> 2018-02-07 15:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229155960 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229156480      For years before Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, he was obsessed with ideas about race. In his speeches and writings, Hitler spread his beliefs in racial "purity" and in the superiority of the "Germanic race"—what he called an Aryan "master race." He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall.When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in publicly put out posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered "inferior." ]]> 2018-02-07 15:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229156480 20101022 https://padlet.com/20101022/csae8yvmedoo/wish/229158651 “Adolf Hitler Biography.” Biography.com, 5 Aug. 2017, www.biography.com/.
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