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World War II  **The Beginning** Benito Mussolini was an Italian dictator, leader of a Fascist Party & was alied with Hitler. He invaded Ethopia (1935-36), invaded Albania (1939) and took part in a multi-state invasion of Greece in 1940.

Appeasement means to bring peace and thats what France & Great Britain wanted to do. Britain and France pursued a policy of appeasement in the hope that Hitler would not drag Europe into another world war. In 1933 Hitler was in charge and he build a military and he stoped paying France & Great Britain from WWI. In 1936 he remitirized the Rhine land. By 1938 he annaxes Austria & Sudetenland, and in 1939 he took control of Czechoslovakia.

In 1870 all the Japanese had was Japan but by 1932 they started expanding into China. They wanted to expand because they were lacking on natural resources. USA ends up helping China to evacuate Japan by suplying them & sending them the Flying Tigers. Japanese attecked Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 causing USA to go into WWII. US declared war on Japan after the attack & 2 days later Germany declared war on US.

**The USA in the Fight** A few rationed items were shoes, wiski, sugar, cigarettes, ketchup, butter, cake, cans, tin, rubber, rags & fat. They were rationed because they wanted all these stuff to be used for the war. I think rationing was necessary because when people went into WWII they didnt have many of these stuff, so it was good to save & recycle everything to just take with you.

The Office of War Information (OWI) was created in 1942 and served during World War II. It was a news resource explaining propaganda. They were pictures or ad campaigns. Propoganda is information, ideas, or rumors used to inform, harm or help somebody. I think that OWI was good because it warned about foreign spies and attempted to recruit women into war work. Also worked to promote patriotism. It used many posters & radio broadcast. But then again I think it was bad because it made things look good when it really wasnt, for example the Japanese Internments.

On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, [|Franklin D. Roosevelt] signed the Executive Order 9066. It was the evacuation order to round-up 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps officially called "relocation centers" in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. Internment Camps were camps where many Japanese were located after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They lived in small 20 by 25 ft rooms & payed 45 cents everyday just to eat, which back then was alot of money. Many Japanese died in the camps because of medical problems or they were just killed for resisting orders. Personally I think that Executive order 9066 was not necessary because these Japanese were being punished for something they had nothing to do with. The attack on Pearl Harbor was caused by the Japanese, but not by the ones already living in the United States. The US just thought that these Japanese were the one giving out information to Japan. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the famous Atomic Bomb that was used as a US secret weapond. By this time Truman was president, he decided to use it to end war quickly. The first bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. It killed 120,000 instantly. Japan didnt believe that we had more bombs but we suprised them with one more in Nagasaki. The war had now ended. Personally, I think the Manhattan Project was good for all humanity because if it wasnt for the US using the atomic bomb they would have been in war & it could have probably been worst.

**How the War Was Fought** European Theatre where WWII was fought.

Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied commander, he commanded all allied forces. Eisenhower was in charge of The Invasion Of Normandy also known as "D-Day"

George Marshall came up with the Operation Overload which was the Invasion on Normandy. He planned the 1st peacetime draft and coordinated the largest expansion of the US military in history.

Omar Bradley led the 1st army at The Battle of the Bulge. His army liberated paris