Early Difficulties
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Early Difficulties
Chapter 27 Section 1
• A. Strengths and Weaknesses– Axis Controlled areas• Better Prepared• Spread out all over• Small production supplies
• B. Mobilizing for War– 1943– 486,000 workers building war goods• 300,000 aircraft• 88,000 landing craft• 215 subs• 147 aircraft carriers
– Unemployment dropped to 1.2%
• War Production Board– Changed factories– Taxes– Rationed goods
• Raising an Army– 18-45 years old• 12 million needed
• C. War in the Pacific– Japan bombs bases in the Pacific– Douglas MacArthur commanded in the Philippines• Had to retreat
– Bataan Death March• 70,000 involved• 10,000 died
• D. Halting the Japanese Advance– Chester Nimitz• Pacific Fleet is salvageable
– Battle of Coral Sea– Battle of Midway– Guadalcanal
• E. Early fighting in Europe– 500 ships sunk off of US coast– North Africa• Erwin Rommel/Desert Fox
– Stalingrad• Germans were surrounded in city• Lost 200,000 men
The Home Front
Chapter 27 Section 2
• A. Promoting the War– Blue Star-War– Gold Star-KIA– Office of War Information• Made movies• Put out info about war
• B. Life during Wartime– Millions grew gardens• Victory Gardens
– Blackouts during war• Civilian enforcement
– Air Raid Drills
• C. Rosie the Riveter– 1940-1944—6million women employed
• D. Discrimination– Blacks put in segregated units– Women in workplace– Zoot Suit Riots• Mexicans who served
– Japanese Internment—119,000
Victory in Europe
Chapter 27 Section
• A. Allied attacks in the Mediterranean– Nov 1942—Operation Torch– Patton led the Americans in North Africa– Allies Force Italy to sign treaty• Mussolini fled to Germany• Rome fell June 1944
• B. Sea and Air assaults– Battle of the Atlantic• Used Sonar• 1944—Allies control Atlantic
– RAF Bombings over Germany
• C. Operation Overlord– Invasion of France• Planned by George Marshall
– D-Day June 6, 1944• Sword• Gold• Juno• Utah• Omaha
• D. Holocaust– Genocide of 6 Million Jews– 2/3 European population– Final Solution
• E. Defeating Germany– Battle of the Bulge—200,000 vs 80,000• Dec 1944—Germans retreating 100 miles/day
– Yalta Conference• Big Three met to divide Germany
– Race to Berlin• April 30—Hitler offs himself• VE Day—May 8th
Victory in Asia
Chapter 27 Section 4
• A. Pacific Offensives– Island Hopping• Tarawa—1000 killed• Saipan—3400 killed
– Philippines– Leyte Gulf• Largest and most decisive
• B. Victory in the Pacific– Tokyo Firebombing—Feb 1945• 20,000 Japanese died
– Okinawa• April 1945• 49,000 Americans Killed• 100,000 Japanese Killed
• C. The Atomic Bomb– Manhattan Project• Einstein• Oppenheimer
– Enola Gay• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
– September 2, 1945• Japan surrenders on USS Missouri
• D. Cost of War– 30 Million dead– 1 trillion dollars