WWII by Orazio Nastase https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly WWII Project en-us 2021-03-22 15:09:22 UTC 2024-10-23 21:13:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Hitler onastase05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1338532659        Aldof Hitlers rank was a Further (a ruthless, tyrannical leader.)
        Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide on April 30, 945.
       Hitler was import to WWII because upon achieving power, He smashed the nation's democratic institutions and transformed Germany into a war state intent on conquering Europe for the benefit of the so-called Aryan race. His invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, triggered the European phase of World War II. 

]]> 2021-03-22 15:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1338532659 German Invasion of Poland onastase05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1338552169         On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital. Hundreds of thousands of refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish, fled the German advance hoping the Polish army could halt the German advance. But, after heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans within a month of the German attack.  Soviet forces quickly took over most of eastern Poland, while western Poland remained under German occupation until 1945. After the defeat of Polish forces, German authorities began enforcing their racial policies in the occupied territories. They required Jews to identify themselves by wearing white armbands with a blue Star of David and conscripted them for forced labor. They expelled hundreds of thousands of Poles from their homes and settled more than 500,000 ethnic Germans in their place.
         The invasion on Poland is important to WWII because it made tensions high between many citizens and the countries around Germany and Poland. What Germany did had to be stopped.

]]> 2021-03-22 15:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1338552169 Attack on Pearl Harbor onastase05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342757512         By the time the first Japanese bomber appeared over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, tensions between Japan and the United States had been growing for 10 years, making war seem inevitable.
        The Japanese attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with the Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and enabling Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference.
          Two heavy cruisers, 35 submarines, two light cruisers, nine oilers, two battleships, and 11 destroyers were destroyed in the pearl harbor attack. The attack also killed 2,403 U.S. personnel, including 68 civilians.
           The attack on pearl harbor was important to WWII because it is one of the reasons why the U.S. joined WWII.]]> 2021-03-23 13:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342757512 D - Day pschwab05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342792016 By dawn on June 6, 1944, thousands of paratroopers and glider troops were already on the ground behind enemy lines, securing bridges and exit roads. The amphibious invasions began at 6:30 a.m. The British and Canadians overcame light opposition to capture beaches code-named Gold, Juno, and Sword, as did the Americans at Utah Beach. U.S. forces faced heavy resistance at Omaha Beach, where there were over 2,000 American casualties. However, by day’s end, about 156,000 Allied troops had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches. According to some estimates, more than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives in the D-Day invasion, with thousands more wounded or missing.
Less than a week later, on June 11, the beaches were fully secured and over 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles, and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed at Normandy.
           The D-Day invasion is significant in history for the role it played in World War II. It marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by Nazi Germany; less than a year after the invasion, the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany’s surrender.


]]> 2021-03-23 13:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342792016 Operation Barbarossa pschwab05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342843280           Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its Axis allies, which started on Sunday, June 22, 1941, during World War II. The largest and deadliest military operation in history. There was a total of Germany had suffered close to 775,000 casualties. More than 800,000 Soviets had been killed, and an additional 6 million Soviet soldiers had been wounded or captured.
          Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. The Germans had serious deficiencies.

]]> 2021-03-23 13:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342843280 Battle of Midway onastase05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342897177           The battle of mid way  was a battle between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. This battle played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
Hoping to replicate the success of the Pearl Harbor attack, a Japanese Marshal decided to seek out and crush the rest of the U.S. Pacific fleet with a surprise attack aimed at the Allied base at Midway Island. Midway is located in the Pacific Ocean almost directly in between the United States and Japan.
            At the Battle of Midway, Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
             The battle of Mid way is important because code-breakers were able to decipher Japanese naval code, allowing American leaders to anticipate Japanese maneuvers which changed the path of the war.

]]> 2021-03-23 13:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1342897177 Japanese Internment pschwab05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1347946570 The Japanese were put in concentration camps because they were accused of espionage. The Americans wanted to be safe and completely sure that no one was spying on them.
       This was crucial to the war because the Japanese would now be looked at very differently. When the U.S. became more involved in WWII they began using Japanese men from these interment camps to go fight in Europe.

]]> 2021-03-24 13:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1347946570 Kristallnacht-(Night Of Broken Glass) onastase05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1347965020           From November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht,-“Night of Broken Glass,” 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. 
             Kristallnacht is important to WWII because it was the first targeted attack on Jews. The Jews started getting arrested and sent to concentration camps]]> 2021-03-24 13:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1347965020 Auschwitz pschwab05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348008945             Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz- Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention center for political prisoners. However, it evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as slave labor. Some prisoners were also subjected to barbaric medical experiments
        Auschwitz, was a important part of WWII because it was one of the biggest concentration camps in WWII. Auschwitz also was part of the final solution policy which had as its aim the mass murder of the Jewish people in Europe.

]]> 2021-03-24 13:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348008945 Women In WWII onastase05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348059306          Women helped in the war because the factories and companies needed them. This was because all of their other workers (men) went to war. Labor shortages also required it. The women helped the war by working in shipyards, steel mills, warehouses, offices, hospitals and daycare centers. Most women had to overcome a "double burden", responsibilities on the job and at home. One achievement was that The western United States boasted the highest percentage of female industrial workers in the country. 
   Women were important to WWII because they were the ones behind the scenes making it possible for the allies to win the war.
                  

]]> 2021-03-24 14:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348059306 Latinos in WWII pschwab05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348081094 Latinos were a big part of WWII They would serve in any way they could. They served because they wanted to improve their civil rights. During WWII 11 mexican americans were awarded with the medal of honor. 
Latinos were a crucial part of WWII because it would improve their civil rights as well as the civil rights as many others by fighting in the war.
]]> 2021-03-24 14:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348081094 Yalta Conference pschwab05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348100974            The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula. The “Big Three” Allied leaders discussed the post-war fate of defeated Germany and the rest of Europe, the terms of Soviet entry into the ongoing war in the Pacific against Japan and the formation and operation of the new United Nations.
      The Yalta Conference was a crucial part of WWII because it shaped a post-war peace that represented not just a collective security order but a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of post-Nazi Europe.]]> 2021-03-24 14:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348100974 Creation-(bomb) onastase05 https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348139424 On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estamiated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
      The Atomic bomb was a crucial part of the war because it was the first atomic bomb ever dropped. It was also what caused Japan to surrender and the war to begin to come to an end.]]> 2021-03-24 14:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/onastase05/ps1fmvrt82pu08ly/wish/1348139424