https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r Made with a dash of wit en-us 2019-02-15 13:48:21 UTC 2025-10-07 17:23:07 UTC hello@padlet.com s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331724824 This video describes Japans invasion of Manchuria ]]> 2019-02-15 13:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331724824 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331729277 Under the rule of Adolf Hitler, the German Army was the most feared threat ]]> 2019-02-15 14:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331729277 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331730949 Japan provoked the United States into war by ruthlessly attacking Pearl Harbor, killing a little over 2,000 people.]]> 2019-02-15 14:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331730949 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331734676 During the 30's, the stock market crashed and the United States faced many hardships. The Foreign Policy Leaders believed it best ]]> 2019-02-15 14:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331734676 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331741591 The United States refused to recognized any territory that was illegally owned by Japan]]> 2019-02-15 14:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331741591 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331743029 Congress authorized the President to negotiate tariff rates with individual nations. Should a nation agree to reduce its barriers to trade with the United States, the President could reciprocate without the consent of Congress. ]]> 2019-02-15 14:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331743029 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331746479 After Roosevelt took oath in office, Germany gave full control to Hitler]]> 2019-02-15 14:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331746479 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331751413 Japan withdrew themselves from the League Nations while Americans tried completely avoiding the upcoming war]]> 2019-02-15 14:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/331751413 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333165578 The United States Congress and President Roosevelt passed three important laws, the Neutrality Act, directly aimed at reversing the mistakes made that led to the American entry into the First World War.]]> 2019-02-20 13:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333165578 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333167144 On July 7, 1937, a fight broke out between Chinese and Japanese. Due to that, the Japanese launched a bombing attack on Chinese cities]]> 2019-02-20 13:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333167144 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333169927 In October 1937, Roosevelt gave a speech, The Quarantine Speech, saying they needed to take collective action to stop the epidemic aggression]]> 2019-02-20 13:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333169927 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333175045 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a 10 year Nonaggression Pact, meaning Hitler was now able to take back the land Germany had lost to Poland. On September 1, Nazi troops crossed into Poland, and on September 3, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany]]> 2019-02-20 14:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333175045 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333177332 Roosevelt pressed Congress to repeal the Arms Embargo Act, knowing it was the only way France and Britain would be able to defeat Germany.]]> 2019-02-20 14:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333177332 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333178595 on April 9, 1940, the German Blitzkrieg moved rapidly into Denmark and Norway. As the weeks passed, the German war machine steadily advanced through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and into northern France. Hitler arrived in France to sign the terms of French surrender.]]> 2019-02-20 14:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333178595 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333179701 The summer of 1940, Hitler launched Operation Sea Lion, an all-out assault on the British mainland. The Royal Air Force of Britain battled the German Luftwaffe in the greatest air battle in history]]> 2019-02-20 14:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333179701 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333180955 Placing a strict embargo on Japan would have seemed obvious, but Roosevelt feared that Japan would strike at the Dutch East Indies. Beginning in late 1940, the United States grew less patient with Japanese atrocities and began to restrict trade with the Empire.]]> 2019-02-20 14:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333180955 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333181710 By the end of the year in 1940, America had stopped shipments of scrap metal, steel, and iron ore to Japan. At the same time, America began sending military hardware to Chiang Kai-Shek ]]> 2019-02-20 14:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/333181710 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335340798 American diplomats were able to decipher Japan's radio transmissions with the device Magic]]> 2019-02-26 13:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335340798 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335344168 With major operations in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, American industries literally fueled two wars simultaneously. Americans finally enjoyed a standard of living higher than the pre-Depression years.]]> 2019-02-26 13:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335344168 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335344989 The war effort also had a darker side. Civil liberties were compromised. 110,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly uprooted from their West Coast homes to be sent to remote relocation camps.]]> 2019-02-26 13:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335344989 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335346425 World War II was fought over differences left unresolved after World War I. Over 400,000 Americans perished in the four years of involvement, an American death rate second only to the Civil War. Twelve million victims perished from Nazi atrocities in the Holocaust. The deaths of twenty million Russians created a defensive Soviet mindset that spilled into the postwar era. After all the blood and sacrifice, the Axis powers were defeated]]> 2019-02-26 13:50:42 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335346425 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335348458 Three days after Congress declared war on Japan, Germany responded by declaring war on the United States.]]> 2019-02-26 13:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335348458 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335349723 American military leaders favored a far more aggressive approach to attacking Germany than their British counterparts. Winston Churchill feared that should such an operation fail, the loss of human life, military resources, and British morale could be fatal.]]> 2019-02-26 13:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335349723 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335351005 Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to a plan called "Closing The Ring," where they blocked supplies going to Germany and began bombing their cities. Then the army would attack Hitler's troops at their weakest points and slowly advance toward German soil. ]]> 2019-02-26 13:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335351005 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335354557 A week after Pearl Harbor, Congress passed the War Powers Act, granting the president authority to conduct the war effort.]]> 2019-02-26 14:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335354557 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335356213 The United States Armed Forces went from 1.5 million members to 12 million. Roosevelt created women's auxiliary forces for the army, navy, air force, and Coast Guard]]> 2019-02-26 14:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335356213 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335359107 The U.S. government spent over twice as much money during WW2. Tax rates went up to control inflation.  ]]> 2019-02-26 14:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335359107 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335361226 Soviet troops had won at Stalingrad and were slowly taking their territory back. Hitler was still refusing to surrender]]> 2019-02-26 14:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335361226 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335872624 The Allies began staging fake exercises to confuse the Germans. The Germans believed the attack would be coming at Calais, but Operation Overlord was really aimed at the Normandy Peninsula ]]> 2019-02-27 13:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335872624 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335874784 The Americans, British, and free French were racing the Soviet back to Berlin. When they got there, they seen that Hitler had taken his own life, and the Germans had no choice but to surrender, giving the day the name V-E Day. ]]> 2019-02-27 13:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335874784 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335876484 Japan began attacking American islands. The Philippines came under attack, and America thought they could win the attack. The Americans ended up surrendering. ]]> 2019-02-27 13:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335876484 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335878182 Japan inflicted the Bataan Death March, an awful 85 mile on American and Filipino POWs, killing 16,000 souls]]> 2019-02-27 13:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335878182 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335880082 America was still benefiting on being able to decipher Japans radio transmissions. They met Japanese forces head on at Battle of Midway. ]]> 2019-02-27 14:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335880082 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335882190 Over 127,000 Americans were imprisoned during World War 2 for having Japanese ancestry ]]> 2019-02-27 14:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335882190 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335884587 President Roosevelt signed an executive order in February 1942 ordering the relocation of all Americans of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps in the interior of the United States.]]> 2019-02-27 14:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335884587 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335886446 The United States government hoped that the interns could make the camps self-sufficient by farming to produce food]]> 2019-02-27 14:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335886446 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335887768 the world's scientific community discovered that German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom. Fears soon spread over the possibility of Nazi scientists utilizing that energy to produce a bomb capable of unspeakable destruction]]> 2019-02-27 14:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335887768 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335889481 The Americans began making an effort to build an atomic bomb, calling it the Manhattan Project  ]]> 2019-02-27 14:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335889481 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335891134 The Japanese military command rejected the request for unconditional surrender, but there were indications that a conditional surrender was possible.]]> 2019-02-27 14:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335891134 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335891762 on August 6, 1945, a plane called the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.Instantly, 70,000 Japanese citizens were vaporized. In the months and years that followed, an additional 100,000 perished from burns and radiation sickness.]]> 2019-02-27 14:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335891762 s738629 https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335892553 On August 14, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.]]> 2019-02-27 14:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s738629/nxmnjro26h4r/wish/335892553