D9: World War II & Cold War

Actors accused of being communist; they didnt cooperate with the investigation committee and refused to name others

Was established during the red scare and began to heavily investigate the movie industry for communists

The House of Un-American Activities Committee was created to heavily investigate the movie industry for communists

begins between the US and USSR over weapons

No nuclear weapons used

North Korea pused UN forces to Pusan
MacArthur led an attack at Inchon
UN troops get to Seoul, SK by Sept. 1950

General assembly...made up of all members of the UN
Security Counil...Permanent members(5)
One security council member can veto a UN idea

Many Nazi put in prison aand others sentenced to death
Japan was put under the control of McArthur who helped rebuild Japan's economy and government
Germany was divided into 4 zones

Aug. 15, 1945
the day after Japan surrendered

Dropsite of the 2nd atomic bomb

the plane that droped the first atomic bomb

drop site of teh first atomic bomb

Big 3 meet
Truman was told that the US had an atomic weapon
Truman told Japan to surrender or face prompt and utter destruction
Also called for war crime trials after the war

led the scientists in charge of testing the atomic weapon

code name under which the US was developing an atomic weapon

US, ENGLAND, USSR

meeting of the big 3
USSR would enter the war against Japan 2 months after Germany was defeated
Poland would have free elections and serve as a buffer between Germany and USSR
agreed to divide Germany after the war

Costly victory; shows possible high casualties of an invasion of Japan

Invaded as a base for US heavy bombers

Led US Navy in the central pacific
Involved in major battles to push to Japan (Island Hopping)

Suicide Planes

The US re-takes the Philippines

May 7, 1945
the end of Germany

Battle in Aachen; the first German city taken
Germany broke through the American lines
last major German Attack
German loss

FDR won a 4th term because the war was going well
his new VP was Harry S. Truman

Led invasions in Africa and France
pushed deep into Germany after D-Day
tank commander

June 6. 1944: Invasion of Normandy, France

Eisenhower led the Allies
Largest amphibious invasion in history
Nicknamed "the longest day"

Big 3 meet wanted a two front war with Germany
agreed to a partition of post war Germany

the weakest place to attack Europe

Churchill and FDR meet in French Morocco and agreed to invade Sicily and insists on unconditional surrender

Germany suffered a major defeat that led to the loss of North Africa

the invasion was called operation Torch
Led by Dwight D. Eisenhower in Oct. 1942

Taking over one island at a time to get closer airstripes to invade Japan

Invaded by US
Used as an airstrip: toehold to attack Japan

Led by Admiral Nimitz
Worst defeat for Japan
Turning point of the Pacific Theater

No ship to ship contact
All done with planes

Led US soldiers over 50 miles away to a POW camp

Stated Douglas MacArthur when he left his troops in the Philippines

Led the American troops during invasion by Japan in 1942

Newsreel
Posters
Pemphlets
Airdrops-dropping notes on the enemy

Woman's Army Corps

Worked in Factories and took the place of men in other places judt like in WWI

Increased output

Used in WWII
Meatless Monday
Wheatless Wendnesday
Ration Books
Victory Gardens
Gas Rationing

Organized scrap drives for paper, rags, cooking fat, tin, and rubber

Supreme Court said interment camps were legal during war
some claimed it violated teh 5th amendment

Prison Camps for possible threats to national security

The Japanese who volunteered to fight were formed into one battalion and became the most decorated in Europe

Had to keep Hitler from controlling all of Europe

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Japan did not receive trade from the US because they invaded China

Peace Paln for after the war and set up for the United Nations

Speech
Worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from Fear

The turning point of the European theater

Hitler invaded the Soviet Union

We will lend the Allies supplies and get them back later

Built in Eastern Europe, Esp. Poland

The extermination of teh Jewish race

Took away Jewish political rights
Segregation (ghettos)
Curfews
Permits to travel
Id patches

GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN

Used by the British in 1940 during the Battle of Britain

British fought back with the aid of a new invition: radar