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**World War Dos.!! **

** - The director in charge of Italy was Benito Moussolin **.
 * His actions where to create a supreme control over the military of Italy.
 * He was an Italian Dictator
 * And he invaded Ethopia (1935-36), invaded Albania (1939)
 * Leader of a Fascist Party and was allied with Hitler.

- **France and Britain appeased Hitler**
 * When Hitler marched into Rhineland - 1936
 * Annexed Austria - 1938
 * Annexed Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia - 1938-39.

**-Japanese empire**
 * They expanded to China because of lack of resources.
 * U.S. was persuading them to get out of China.
 * They where messing with trading so the U.S. where cutting them off
 * They recived no coal, oil. or rubber.

**-Why did the U.S enter WWII** -They entered because the Japanese Navy and Air Forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Sunday, Dec 7, 1941. On Monday, Dec 8, 1941. Three day's later Germany declared war on the USA.  The USA in the fight

-Rationed
 Items where rationed because, people were generally willing to do without in an effort to send more to the military. //items// -Question Yes, because if they didn't they would have no food to feed the kids."We can learn lessons from their experiences to help us to make it through hard times." []
 * Butter ||
 * Coffee ||
 * Matches ||
 * Chewing gum ||
 * Oil ||
 * Rubber ||
 * Beef ||
 * Pineapple ||
 * 1) Do you think rationing was necessary during WWII.?

-Office of war information. The purpose was to consolidate government information services, it coordinated the release of war news. -Propaganda. Was used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. -Examples.
 * poster
 * radio broadcasts



-Question. > Do you think the propaganda that the Office of War Information was good or bad for the war.? > -I'm not sure, but it was used to increase support for the war and commitment to an allied victory. "Using a wide variety of media, propagandists fomented hatred for the enemy and support for America's allies."

-Internment Camps. -It was a place where all the Japanese were sent no matter where they came from. Japanese were still sent to the internment camps, only because they were Japanese.

-Executive order 9066.  It forced all the Japanese into internment camps where they were to be isolated from the rest of America's population, fear of Japanese spies giving information to American enemies. -Question. -No, because it wasnt fair. It only happend because they where at War.
 * 1) Do you think the Executive order 9066 was necessary.?

-Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was a project to develop the first nuclear weapon during World War II by the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.  -Question. -No, because nuclear weapons are bad for everybody. Aka common sense.
 * 1) Do you think the Manhattan Project was good for humanity.?

How The War Was Fought.!
 * The goal was to take North America back. Their secret weapon was George Patton, the best tank commander allies Had.

-The invasion
 * Dwight Eisenhower commanded all Allied forces.
 * 5000 Ships.
 * 10,000 Air crafts.
 * 153,000 Troops.
 * 20,000 Vehicles.

-America's Expansion. George Marshall.
 * He came up with the Operation Over lord, and planned the 1st peacetime draft and coordinated the largest expansion of the US history.

-Battle of the Bulge. Omar Bradley
 * He led the 1st Army at the Battle of the Bulge, his Army Liberated Paris.
 * The Germans fight back but Omar stops the advance.
 * German attack pushes Allies back.

-Operation Torch

George Patton. -The European Theater I think Dwight Eisenhower, because he commanded all Allied forces and brought ships, air crafts, troops, and vehicles with him.
 * [[image:http://ww2total.com/WW2/History/maps/Operation-Torch-px800.jpg width="417" height="247"]] Operation Torch was to take back North America. George Patton is the best tank commander Allies had.

-Tuskeegee Airmen
 * [[image:http://www.blackarchives.org/files/collection/00000035.jpg width="523" height="322"]][[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/332d_Air_Expeditionary_Wing.png width="396" height="318"]]
 * The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. In 1925 the, the military published a report issued by the War College, "The Use of Negro Manpower in War." Of the 13 men in the first pilot training class, only five completed the rigorous five week program to earn their wings. V <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">arious attempts were made to discredit African American combat pilots. However, their skills and courage eventually earned them respect from those who first questioned their ability and doubted their courage. African Americans in the military were said to be fighting two wars, one against the enemy in Europe and another against racism.

-Concentration Camps
 * What the U.S found was <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">unspeakable conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay un-buried. After the liberation of the camps was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world. A small percentage of inmates who survived resembled skeletons, because of the demands of forced labor and the lack of food, compounded by months and years of maltreatment. Many were so weak that they could hardly move.

<span style="color: #a0f901; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">-Pacific Theater WW2 Map

-Bataan Death March >    -Why was the Battle of Midway a major turning point in WWII.? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5451c8; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">-Leader <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
 * <span style="color: #04048b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Ja<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">panese ca ptured 78,000 U.S, Filipino prisoners and forced them to March to a prison camp. Prisoners were beaten, killed, stabbed with bayonets and denied water or medical treatment. Homma was planning an<span style="color: #fb2d2d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **assault**, and wanted the U.S. troops at Corregidor to believe that he planned to use blockade and bombardment, and he did not want American troops nearby as his Army practiced amphibious landing tactics.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">The battle of Midway was the first success for the US over the Japanese, because of the major damage on the Japanese naval forces, both air and sea. But as a moral booster to the US forces. It also slowed down the Japanese advancement through the pacific, allowing the US forces to resupply and increase their presence in the Pacific theatre.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Douglas MacArthur- He took islands and built airbases, then move to another island.
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Chester Nimitz - was in charge of the U.S. __Navy in__ the pacific.    **