https://padlet.com/Luizin/hom42y2n265jy4vf Brazil 2020 en-us 2020-09-15 18:53:01 UTC 2026-02-10 06:24:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4fd.png Luizin https://padlet.com/Luizin/hom42y2n265jy4vf/wish/749350693 Remake of War: Guia de estudo de teoria e prática]]> 2020-09-15 19:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Luizin/hom42y2n265jy4vf/wish/749350693 Luizin https://padlet.com/Luizin/hom42y2n265jy4vf/wish/749354992 Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powers: USA, Russia, UK, Canada

War fought on 2 fronts: Western Front, Pacific Theater

Pre-War & Appeasement (1935-39)

• Appeasement = foreign policy adopted by the UK and France to appease Hitler and Mussolini in order to keep the peace. 
• 1938 - Neville Chamberlain meets with Hitler, declares he has "secured peace for our time."
• Sept 1, 1939 - Hitler invades Poland, proving Chamberlain very wrong. Appeasement has failed. Britain (along with 60 other countries) declares war on Germany. World war breaks out. 
• The US does not. Before Pearl Harbor, isolationism was popular in the US. Isolationism has a long history - George Washington discussed staying out of European affairs in his farewell address. After WWI, isolationism rises as the League of Nations fails and Americans grow weary of suffering casualties for the purpose of solving other countries' problems. FDR refrains from joining the war, even while gesturing towards his interventionist sentiments in speeches. 

Pearl Harbor and US involvement (1941) 

• Dec 7, 1941 - Japan invades the US at Pearl Harbor in a complete surprise attack. 2,000+ U.S. casualties, 1000 injured, 20 naval vessels destroyed, including 8 battleships. 
• Dec 8, 1941 - US declares war on Japan with one dissenting vote - Jeanette Rankin, the first woman in Congress and a lifelong pacifist
• Dec 11, 1941 - US declares war on Germany with 2 unanimous houses of Congress. 

D-Day and V-E Day

• Jun 6, 1944 - Allied armies, led by general Dwight D. Eisenhower, attack Nazi forces on the shores of Normandy, France. This marks the beginning of the end of the war.
• Apr 25 1945 - Mussolini is captured by Italian partisans and executed
• Apr 30 1945 - Hitler commits suicide in his bunker
• May 7 - German army surrenders unconditionally
• May 8 1945 - Churchill declares the war officially over. US declares May 8 as V-E day. Many Eastern European countries didn't receive the news till May 9, so they celebrate then. 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki and end of the war

• Potsdam conference - USSR, US, UK meet (Stalin, Truman, Churchill/Atlee) "The Big 3" - and demand Japan's surrender
• Aug 6 1945 - Hiroshima bomb dropped
• Aug 9 1945 - Nagasaki bomb
• Aug 14-15 - Japanese forces surrender to the Allies

Post war economic impact

• Prosperity in the US - rise of consumerism, Baby Boom
• John Maynard Keynes - "Keynsian economics" - when national economies suffer, federal government should borrow and spend money to boost economic activity. Part of the proceeds of the resulting economic growth should then be used to repay the debt.
• Marshall Plan - US gives Europe $12b to rebuild, relaxes trade sanctions to encourage trade. Was an effort to dampen the rise of Soviet communism and promote capitalism. 1948-1951 saw the fastest economic growth in European history.
• Cold War - economic tensions added to the souring relationship between US and USSR

]]> 2020-09-15 19:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/Luizin/hom42y2n265jy4vf/wish/749354992 Luizin https://padlet.com/Luizin/hom42y2n265jy4vf/wish/749356936 Civil War - Gatling gun. Hand cranked weapon that fired multiple rounds at once.
1884 - Maxim gun introduced. First truly automatic weapon - employs smokeless powder, only needs to be reloaded. It was a natural advancement made during Industrial revolution - Industrialized warfare.
Maxim gun remains relatively unchanged throughout WWI and WWII.]]> 2020-09-15 19:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/Luizin/hom42y2n265jy4vf/wish/749356936