AP HISTORY
CHAP 36
AMERICA IN WORLD WAR II
Japanese “peace mission” Nov 1941
Pearl Harbor attack Dec 7, 1941
“a day which will live in infamy”
Damage from Pearl Harbor attack
Japanese offensive moves in the Pacific 1942
Philippines
General Douglas MacArthur
Bataan Death March 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea May 1942
Battle of Midway June 1942
Guadalcanal Aug 1942
Admiral William Halsey
European Theatre of War:
Scorched earth policy
Afrika Corps Erwin Rommel
Invasion of North Africa 1942
General Bernard Montgomery
General Dwight Eisenhower
Allied Cooperation:
Lend-Lease
Strategy planning – General George Marshall
“second front”
Hitler’s mistakes:
Failed to knock out Great Britain (didn’t follow up at Dunkirk)
Invasion of Russia (failed to take Moscow)
Declaring war on the US
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
Office of War Mobilization
Selective Service
WAC, WAVES, SPAR
Rationing
Price controls
Nisei
Braceros
Victory in North Africa and Italy 1943
Strengthened control of the Mediterranean
Deprived Germany of much needed troops
Provided bases for Allied bombers to hit Germany
Germany forced to withdraw troops from Russian invasion
Allied air raids
Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944 D-Day
Normandy
Gen Eisenhower
Battle of the Bulge Dec 1944
VE Day May 8, 1945
Concentration camps
Holocaust
Election of 1944
FDR v. Dewey
Roosevelt’s death April 12, 1945
Harry S. Truman
American offensive in the Pacific:
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Island hopping
Victory in the Philippines 1945
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Yalta Conference 1945
FDR, Churchill, Stalin
New world peace organization
Post war occupation of Germany
Free elections in Poland
Potsdam Conference 1945
Truman, Atlee, Stalin
Occupation of Germany
Unconditional surrender of Japan
Hiroshima Aug 6, 1945
Nagasaki Aug 9, 1945
VJ Day Aug 15, 1945
Formal surrender of the Japanese Sept 2, 1945