https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t en-us 2021-03-10 15:05:13 UTC 2021-03-25 01:24:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293335047 In 1933, Hitler rose to the highest rank of German chancellor. He held rallies and gained the support of all other people in power such as politicians and generals. He developed into the führer and within a few years he changed all of Germany, overpowering all other parties and focusing all of his power on the military and the upcoming war.
       Hitler's rise to power was a large influence to other dictators. His rising powers made Stalin, Mussolini, and Hideki all seem small and weak. He broke all of the restrictions from the Treaty of Versailles, making other countries believe that they could break off and do want they wanted as well. In his own way, he set an example to the other dictators and caused the UN to become powerless and inferior. ]]> 2021-03-10 15:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293335047 jtraynor05 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293336557        On September 1st, 1939, German forces invaded Poland. They pushed defending forces on the coastline of Poland and made a lot of ground. The Germans reached the capitol of Poland, Warsaw, and after a month Polish forces surrendered Western Poland to Germany. Refugees retreated and ran from a Western Poland that was controlled by Germany through 1945. 
        The German invasion of Poland helped fuel WWII. It triggered Allies to stand against Germany and disallow them any more land and power. Poland lost half of their country, however Eastern Poland gained protection as the Allies declared war on the Nazis.

  ]]> 2021-03-10 15:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293336557 jtraynor05 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293339160       The Japanese forces formed a surprise attack overseas on the United States military base in Pearl Harbor. This attack occurred on December 7, 1941, and wiped out about 2500 US soldiers and workers in wartime industries. 414 planes and 6 aircraft carriers were used to take down the US military base. The attack was launched due to an embargo formed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This embargo cut off the trade of certain resources including oil, iron, and steel between the US and Japan.
       The attack on Pearl Harbor was the Japanese way of informally declaring war on the United States. Shortly after, Germany and Italy declared war on the US as well, putting them in a difficult position. Japan knew that they could easily take out the US military base in Pearl Harbor instead of heading straight to the mainland. However, that plan did not play out as Japan had hoped as they failed to reach the western coast of the mainland US, ultimately losing the US oil they hoped to regain. ]]> 2021-03-10 15:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293339160 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293343610        The infamous day known as "D-Day" occurred on June 6th 1944,  and the Battle of Normandy itself ended in late August. The Allies planned an attack to invade the northwestern French beaches to push back the Germans. Canada, America, and the British were all attacking together. They attacked by air, ground, and through the water. By late August, the Allies reached the Seine River, removing German forces from Northwestern France and freeing Paris. 
       The battle of D-Day was one of the biggest battles that helped prevent German control over all of Europe. The Allies of Britain, US, and Canada all handed Germany its first major defeat in WWII. The land regained on D-Day allowed the Allies to push Germany out of France and regain power for the Allies.]]> 2021-03-10 15:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1293343610 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1299680203     Japanese Internment camps (1942-1945) were established by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066 in WWII. In reaction to the bombings of Pearl Harbor,  U.S. government formed a policy that people of Japanese descent would be isolated in these internment camps. The camps held over 120,000 citizens and offered them a horrible living condition and harsh treatment. 
      The camps were very similar to the Nazi camps in Auschwitz, only they restricted from unnecessary killing and torture. The camps were unfair and unjust to the Japanese people, however some Americans actually were reassured and at ease when the Japanese were placed in camps. Later on these camps became discontinued and remembered as a horrible violation of human rights. ]]> 2021-03-11 18:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1299680203 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1315682173       Kristallnacht occurred on the night of November 9th, 1938, and spanned through to midday of November 10th, with leftover actions for another few days. The Gestapo units began their attack on the Jewish people late in the night. They targeted Jewish homes, synagogues, and captured or killed any Jewish men (and some women) they could find. About 1000 synagogues were burned down, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were looted, and about 30,000 Jewish men were all arrested and taken to the concentration camps. After the German attacks had died down, all  buildings and businesses associated with or ran by the Jewish people had all been ransacked and vandalized, killing about 100 Jewish men in the process. 
     The Night of Broken Glass was an unofficial start to the Holocaust. During Kristallnacht, German Nazis arrested the Jewish people throughout the entire country, putting them in the concentration camps. The harsh treatment on the Jewish people forced the Allies to take action against Germany, later attempting to overtake the concentration camps. ]]> 2021-03-16 13:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1315682173 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1315688527 On June 4 1942,  Japan launched an attack on the US base in Midway. They used four aircraft carriers and made progress on the base at Midway, however the US staged carriers of their own on the eastern coast of the Midway. The Japanese refueled and returned to the battle. However, they didn't last long as the US fleet destroyed all four Japanese carriers and the US drove back all of the Japanese forces. 
      Japan lost over 3000 men and all four carriers. They had an impactful first strike on Midway, however after that everything went downhill. The US forced Japan into a retreat and out of the US territory. The battle of Midway was a massive momentum shift after the bombings of Pearl Harbor.  ]]> 2021-03-16 13:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1315688527 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1326962764      The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between the Russians and Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during WWII. One of the longest battles and bloodiest in WWII. Lasted from August 42' through February 43'. Future Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev, expected another Nazi attack on Moscow but Hitler had other plans. He formed a surprise attack on Stalingrad because the city was the was an industrial center in Russia and had the Volga River.
    The Battle of Stalingrad helped the allies put a limit on the German expansion. The Soviet Union did what other countries in Europe couldn't and stopped Germany from expanding. Germany needed the shipping routes in the Volga river but were stopped by Soviet Union forces. ]]> 2021-03-18 18:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1326962764 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338306567       The concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, also called labor camps, were formed in 1940 by the Nazis. The camps were built for Rudolph Hoss and were intended for the bordering Polish people. There were three main parts of Auschwitz, each of them being used through late 1945. Throughout all of Auschwitz, about 3 million  people were killed, the majority of them being Jewish. 
    The Auschwitz camps showed the Nazi's harsh ideals to the Allies and the rest of the world. The camps were in horrible condition, giving a harsh and unsanitary lifestyle to the imprisoned Jewish, Polish, and other groups of people. The camps sparked the Allies to work towards freeing the people in the labor camps, however Germans evacuated them when the Allies gained land. The Allies kept pushing Germany back and eventually succeeded in freeing the people from German control in 1945. ]]> 2021-03-22 14:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338306567 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338311759      The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps, a precursor of the U.S. Air Force. They flew more than 15,000 planes in North Africa and Europe during WWII. They trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. They earned 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses for their impressive work, and they also helped encourage other African Americans that fought in the U.S. armed forces.
The Tuskegee airmen were very significant for the United States, being the first African American pilots. They showed their ability to operate all the stations of an air force unit, have their own pilots, mechanics, and engineers. They even had an impact on the Civil Rights Movement, being used as an example of the strength and courage of African Americans.]]> 2021-03-22 14:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338311759 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338314652     From early 1942 through the end of WWII, Navajo Code Talkers worked on transferring messages for the United States. They were suggested to send important messages for the war by Philip Johnston. They were used because of how complicated their language was and it allowed messages to be sent without any worry that they could be intercepted. The Navajos were used in battles on the Pacific (usually with Japan) such as the Battle of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, and the Battle of Iwo Jima
    The Navajos were a very important addition for the US in WWII. While they were only working in 4 main battles for the US, they still had a large impact on communication around the world, bringing the idea of using a unique language for secret messages. The Code Talkers were even kept secret for some time in case they were needed for another war. ]]> 2021-03-22 14:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338314652 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338318286      On the week of February 4th, 1945, the "Big Three" nations of Britain, the United States, and Russia each sent out political leaders including Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to meet up and hold the Yalta Conference. The three leaders met, deciding what could be the entire future for Europe/Asia. After the meeting was concluded, a statement was released that wrote about how the three countries were united and stronger in their military. The striking line in the statement was "Nazi Germany is Doomed."
The Yalta Conference sent a sign to the world that the Allies weren't worn down from the war, and still held a lot of power. The statement sent out intimidated the falling Nazi and Japanese empires and frightened non-Allied powers around the world. ]]> 2021-03-22 14:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338318286 https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338320485       On August 6th, 1945, the United States flew a B-29 bomber overseas and dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki was hit with another atomic bomb. The bomb of Hiroshima exploded about 2,000 feet above the ground, and killed about 100,000 people, citizens and soldiers. Within a second of the explosion, the air reached an estimated 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit and killed about 80,000 people, the rest dying to the aftermath of the radiation and debris. While still gruesome, the bomb of Nagasaki was less impactful, killing only 50,000 Japanese people, 40,000 of which were instantaneous. Japan went on to surrender only 6 days after the bombing of Nagasaki. 
     The atomic bombs caused a massive stir around the world. Japan was overwhelmed and instantly backed out of their war with the US. The rest of the world had a controversial view of the US' actions and what it would mean for their futures. Being the first use of atomic bombs and weapons, the guidelines and restrictions became unclear and puzzling to other large powers as they began developing more of their own nuclear technology. The dropping of the a-bombs was very impactful and would change the use of new technology for any upcoming warfare. ]]> 2021-03-22 14:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jtraynor05/ufar07xlofpgjj8t/wish/1338320485