ww2 by Trevor Holladay https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb Made with an open mind en-us 2019-02-15 17:09:34 UTC 2023-06-30 17:18:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Japan launched the first attack, which was on china. Germany was the scariest threat, their army was massive and powerful, like dominoes, all the countries around them began to fall. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/331828056 2019-02-15 17:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/331828056 s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/331849729 2019-02-15 18:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/331849729 s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332803351 2019-02-19 17:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332803351 Above is a web page that lists some facts and has an educational video on pearl harbor. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332803550 2019-02-19 17:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332803550 s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332805132 2019-02-19 17:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332805132 isolationism basically means to avoid getting involved with others affairs. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332805983 2019-02-19 17:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332805983 In the beginning of ww2 america was isolating themselves, they were avoiding all possible ways to enter war, and then Japanese bombed pearl harbor, which then forced us into the war. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332807905 2019-02-19 17:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332807905 The day that F.D.R. took the office Hitler vowed to rebuild Germany's army s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332841210 2019-02-19 18:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332841210 s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332845660 2019-02-19 18:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/332845660 While army's like Germany were getting easy victories, countries like America, Britain and France sat on the sidelines to avoid repeating mistakes they made in world war 1 s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/333279339 2019-02-20 17:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/333279339 On July 7, 1937, a skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops broke out at the MARCO POLO BRIDGE near Beijing. The cause of the fracas is unknown. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336004642 2019-02-27 17:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336004642 Hitler's troops marched into Austria in 1938 and annexed the country. Then Hitler set his eyes upon the Sudetenland, a region in western Czechoslovakia inhabited by 3.5 million Germans. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336007755 2019-02-27 17:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336007755 Two days after Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany, President Roosevelt issued a proclamation of neutrality and ordered the suspension of munitions sales to all belligerents. But Roosevelt stopped short of asking that Americans remain emotionally neutral in the European conflict. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336009514 2019-02-27 17:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336009514 New prime minister Winston Churchill desperately pleaded with Roosevelt for assistance. In the summer of 1940, Hitler launch 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 as Americans watched nervously. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336010783 2019-02-27 17:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336010783 Just prior to Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, Japan signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin. This removed the threat of a Russian attack on Japan's new holdings. With Europe busy fighting Hitler, the United States remained the only obstacle to the establishment of a huge Japanese empire spanning East Asia. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336014655 2019-02-27 17:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336014655 As the bombs rained on Pearl Harbor on the infamous morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, almost 3,000 Americans were killed. Six battleships were destroyed or rendered UN-seaworthy, and most of the ground planes were ravaged as well. Americans reacted with surprise and anger. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336020308 2019-02-27 17:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336020308 The mobilization effort of the government in WORLD WAR II eclipsed even that of World War I. With major operations in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, American industries literally fueled two wars simultaneously. The social and economic consequences were profound. The GREAT MIGRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS from the rural South to the industrial North was accelerated. New opportunities opened for women. Americans finally enjoyed a standard of living higher than the pre-Depression years. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336022816 2019-02-27 17:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336022816 New technologies emerged during the war as well. Radar helped the British locate incoming German planes, and Sonar made Submarine detection much more feasible. German V-1 AND V-2 Rockets ushered in a new age of long-range warfare. But no weapon compared in destructive capacity to the atomic bomb, developed after a massive, secret research project spearheaded by the United States government. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336023641 2019-02-27 17:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336023641 Instead, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to implement an immediate blockade of supplies to Germany and to begin bombing German cities and munitions centers. The army would attack Hitler's troops at their weakest points first and slowly advance toward German soil. The plan was known as closing the ring. In December 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to attack German holdings in North Africa first. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336024869 2019-02-27 17:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336024869 Three days after Congress declared war on Japan, Germany responded by declaring war on the United States. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336026063 2019-02-27 17:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336026063 First the United States needed to enlarge its armed forces. Because of the peacetime draft, the United States Armed Forces boasted over 1.5 million members. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336054896 2019-02-27 18:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336054896 The United States government spent over twice as much money fighting World War II as it had spent on all previous programs since its creation. Tax rates were raised to generate revenue and control inflation. Some people paid 90% of what they earned toward taxes! Still, more money was needed so the government again launched Liberty and victory Loan drives like those that helped finance the First World War. In addition, the size of the federal government more than tripled from about a million workers in 1940 to almost 3.5 million in 1945. s725244 https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336056857 2019-02-27 18:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/s725244/rx503a2eu8tb/wish/336056857