Leaders of World War ll by Theresa Palmisano

Leaders of World War ll by Theresa Palmisano https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw WW2 en-us 2018-04-16 12:55:46 UTC 2025-09-23 08:02:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Benito Mussolini thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252120185 Mussolini served in the Royal Italian Army until he was discharged in 1917 due to injury. The Black Shirts came together and marched on Rome. Mussolini presented himself as the only one capable of restoring order. After that Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy which was lead by the Fascist party. Italy joined the war when Germany invaded Poland, Italy joined on the axis powers. Mussolini announced that he was thirsty for war, he actually planned for war until Adolf Hitler declared before him. ]]> 2018-04-16 13:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252120185 Michinomiya Hirohito elilye3493 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252122055 Emperor Hirohito had the longest reign of any monarch in Japan's history. He came to power on Christmas of 1926 shortly following his father's death.]]> 2018-04-16 13:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252122055 Adolf Hitler antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252122549 Hitler was one of Germany's most durable leaders. He had led the National Socialist (Nazi) Party from 1920-1921, and was recognized as Fuhrer. He was chancellor since January 30, 1933. In 1919, Hitler had attended his first meeting of the German Workers' Party, which was an anti-Semitic, nationalist group that he agreed with Anton Drexler to join. However, he disagreed with how they were organized for him to make a speech. By the start of 1925, the Nazi Party ban was removed, and Hitler, once again, had permission to do public speech.]]> 2018-04-16 13:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252122549 FDR jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252122607 Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. In WWll, Reelected by comfortable margins in 1936, 1940 and 1944, FDR led the United States from isolationism to victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in WWll.]]> 2018-04-16 13:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252122607 thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252128694 2018-04-16 13:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252128694 Map of Italy elilye3493 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252129930 2018-04-16 13:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252129930 Joseph Stalin thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252535371 Once Joseph Stalin came into power, he changed his country in a good way. he changed a poor community to an accomplishing industrial and military centered country. Stalin came into power when Lenin was exiled and assigned Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. He struggled for control to rise a communist party, which he eventually did. ]]> 2018-04-17 12:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252535371 Winston Churchill jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252535842 Winston Churchill came from a long line of English aristocrat-politicians. after the Nazis came to power in 1933, Churchill spent a great deal of time warning his countrymen about the perils of German nationalism, but Britons were weary of war and reluctant to get involved in international affairs again. Likewise, the British government ignored Churchill’s warnings and did all it could to stay out of Hitler’s way. ]]> 2018-04-17 12:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252535842 thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252537711 2018-04-17 12:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252537711 Map of The U.S. jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252541119 2018-04-17 12:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252541119 Video jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252541554 2018-04-17 12:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252541554 Video jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252542088 2018-04-17 12:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252542088 Map of England jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252542437 2018-04-17 12:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252542437 Joseph Stalin thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252545400 2018-04-17 13:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252545400 Map of Russia thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252545943 2018-04-17 13:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252545943 About Stalin thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252546595 2018-04-17 13:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252546595 Entering WW2 thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252552385 A non-aggression pact or neutrality pact is a national treaty between two or more states/countries where the signatories promise not to engage in military action against each other.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the Soviet military. ]]> 2018-04-17 13:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252552385 Blitzkrieg thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252552676 Blitzkrieg was a form of battle called "lightning war". This was the use of tanks, planes, and artillery in a narrow front of war. Germany became very strategic since it was their own strategy. ]]> 2018-04-17 13:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252552676 Entering WW2 jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252554604 A non-aggression pact or neutrality pact is a national treaty between two or more states/countries where the signatories promise not to engage in military action against each other.
German chancellor Adolf Hitler used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed. The pact also contained a secret agreement in which the Soviets and Germans agreed how they would later divide up Eastern Europe.]]> 2018-04-17 13:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252554604 Neville Chamberlain thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252567855 Chamberlain was the prime minister of Britain that supported appeasement. Appeasement is a policy of surrendering to war like nations. ]]> 2018-04-17 13:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252567855 Map of Germany antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252774281 2018-04-17 20:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252774281 Video antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252774973 2018-04-17 20:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252774973 Map of Japan antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252776806 2018-04-17 20:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252776806 Sitzkrieg thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252814658 Sitzkrieg is a form of war where no actual war activity is occurring. This was put forth in the Phony War when the French attempted war with Germany. ]]> 2018-04-18 00:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252814658 Battle of France thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252815439 The Battle of France was the beginning point of the fall of France. This battle concisted of two operations, Case Yellow or Fall Gelb. Germany cut off Allied units which went to Belgium.]]> 2018-04-18 00:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252815439 Battle of Britain thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252817312 Germany flew aircraft over the United Kingdom. This then became a air battle between Britain and Germany. Germany ended up failing to gain air superiority. Britain's victory saved the country from being demolished. French ended up signing an armistice, leaving Britain alone in the war.]]> 2018-04-18 01:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252817312 Battle of Britain thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252817900 German air force flew over the United Kingdom and Britain forces joined to protect their country. German aircraft failed to succeed in their attack, Britain saved their country from being demolished. Though next France signed an armistice leaving Britain alone in any further wars. They ended up negotiating with Adolt Hitler but failed.]]> 2018-04-18 01:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252817900 Michinomiya Hirohito elilye3493 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252960062 2018-04-18 12:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252960062 Great Arsenal of Democracy thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252961852 The United States gave the United Kingdom military supplies to help fight off Nazi Germany. The name Great Arsenal of Democracy came to be known as the Industry of the United States. ]]> 2018-04-18 12:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252961852 Lend Lease Act jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252962978 The Lend-Lease Act was passed in March 1941, before the USA became a combatant. It empowered President Franklin D. Roosevelt to transfer military equipment to other countries in the US national interest. The first beneficiaries were Britain and China.]]> 2018-04-18 12:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252962978 Lend Lease Act jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252964514 By allowing the president to transfer war matériel to a beleaguered Britain–and without payment as required by the Neutrality Act of 1939–the act enabled the British to keep fighting until events led America into the conflict. It also skirted the thorny problems of war debts that had followed World War 2.

]]> 2018-04-18 12:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252964514 The Office of Price Administration thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252965170 This office was established by the United States Government to control prices at the outbreak of World War 2.]]> 2018-04-18 12:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252965170 Attack of Pearl Harbor jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252967171 Dec 7,1941, 7:55am-The first sighting of Japanese fighters by Commander Logan C. Ramsey on Ford Island. Noticing a low-flying plane, Logan initially believes it to be a US pilot but then notices a bomb being dropped. “AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT A DRILL” is transmitted via telegraph from Ford Island. The first bombs strike Wheeler and Hickam.
Dec 7,1941, 8:10am-The USS Arizona is the first battleship to be hit. An armor-piercing bomb proves to be fatal. Over 1,100 crewmen are killed in the explosion.

Dec 7,1941, 8:19am-The Arizona begins to sink to the bottom of the harbor.

Dec 8,1941, 1:10pm-The United States declares war on Japan. The Senate vote is unanimous, and the House of Representatives counts only one vote against.

Dec 8,1941, 4:10pm- President Roosevelt signs the Declaration of War on the Empire of Japan.

]]> 2018-04-18 13:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252967171 WAAC antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252967424 With war looming, US Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts has introduced a bill for the creation of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, a non-combat organization meant to take over jobs that would allow for more men to serve in overseas combat roles. Initially unpopular, the bill was finally passed a year later when President Roosevelt had signed it into law on May 15, 1942. The following day, Oveta Culp Hobby was sworn in as director. Once it was established, tens of thousands of women applied for more positions than ever existed. The first WAAC training center was established at Fort Des Monies, Iowa, and training began in July of 1942.]]> 2018-04-18 13:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252967424 Donald Duck vs. Japan thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252970912 2018-04-18 13:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252970912 Great Arsenal of Democracy thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252971394 2018-04-18 13:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252971394 Wolf Pack thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252972810 2018-04-18 13:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252972810 Manhattan Project antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252973292 The Manhattan Project was the codename for the American-led effort to make a fully functional atomic weapon during WWII. The controversial creation and eventual use of the atomic bomb engaged some of the world's leading scientific minds, as well as the US military. The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that the German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s, and that Hitler was prepared to use.]]> 2018-04-18 13:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252973292 Response to Pearl Habor jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252974371 Roosevelt signed the declaration of war later the same day. Public opinion had been moving towards support for entering the war during 1941, but considerable opposition remained until the attack. Overnight, Americans united against the Empire of Japan in response to calls to "Remember Pearl Harbor."]]> 2018-04-18 13:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252974371 Wolf Packs elilye3493 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252977484 The term wolf pack refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic and submarines of the United States Navy against Japanese shipping in the Pacific Ocean in World War II.]]> 2018-04-18 13:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252977484 Map of Japan in 1941 thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252977695 2018-04-18 13:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252977695 Pearl Harbor thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252979344 2018-04-18 13:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/252979344 November 5th, 1941 thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253382214 Japan ordered troops to prepare for an attack on the United States. Japan was angry with the United States for supplying the USSR and we cut off their oil supply.]]> 2018-04-19 12:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253382214 Death of Mussolini thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253387478 Benito Mussolini was hung on April 28th, 1945. Mussolini was with his mistress Petacci at Lake Como. Partisans pulled both of them out of the car and killed Petacci when she yelled. Mussolini told them to shoot him in the chest, a communist supporter did. He did not die but was shot a second time to confirm his death.]]> 2018-04-19 12:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253387478 North Africa Front jewowu8098 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253390224 The North African Campaign began in June of 1940 and continued for three years, as Axis and Allied forces pushed each other back and forth across the desert. ]]> 2018-04-19 12:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253390224 VE Day antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253392730 May 8, 1945 was the date the Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Reich, formally recognizing the end of WWII in Europe. The Allies had begun to overrun Germany from the west during April as Russian forces advanced from the east. On April 25, 1945, Allied and Soviet forces met at the Elbe River, the German Army was all but destroyed.]]> 2018-04-19 12:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253392730 thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253395877 2018-04-19 13:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253395877 Battle of the Atlantic elilye3493 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253397259 The Germans targeted the British. It was a naval war that lasted 6 years. German U-boats, warships, Italian submarines against
Allied convoys transporting military equipment and supplies
across the Atlantic to Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Battle to control the Atlantic shipping lanes.]]> 2018-04-19 13:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253397259 Battle of Monte Cassino thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253398097 German and Italian troops came together to fight the Allies.]]> 2018-04-19 13:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253398097 Battle of Bulge thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253401792 Germany attacks France, Luxembourg, and Belgium. ]]> 2018-04-19 13:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253401792 VE Day pic antsmi1438 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253402030 Brits celebrating VE Day]]> 2018-04-19 13:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/253402030 Battle of Midway thepal6485 https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/254847986 This battle was a naval battle in the Pacific Theatre where the US attacked Japan. Japan lost very harshly, this was a turning point of the Pacific Theatre.]]> 2018-04-24 14:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/thepal6485/xtnbzz6m3isw/wish/254847986