1. What was the importance of the Battle of Midway?
The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the pacific war, the Allies won their territory back from the Japanese island by island. The Allies were moving closer to Japan.
2. What strategy did the United States adopt in fighting Japan?
Getting their territory back by "island hopping."
3. Why did the Japanese fight so hard on Iwo Jima?
If the U.S. took Iwo Jima it would be critical as a base so the U.S. bombers could easily reach Japan. The Japanese wanted to fight and win this battle especially to prevent this from happening.
4. Why did the Allies believe Okinawa was a foretaste of an invasion of Japan?
Because the Allies now saw how the Japanese fought using kamikazes and withstanding many casualties.
5. What was the Manhattan Project?
The development of the atomic bomb.
6. Ultimately, why did President Truman decide to drop atomic bombs on Japan?
President Truman thought it would end the war
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
War for Europe & North Africa
1. To what did Roosevelt and Churchill agree early in the war?
Roosevelt and Churchill agreed on the strike against Hitler, and they also thought that Germany and Italy posed a much greater threat than Japan.
2. Why was winning the Battle of the Atlantic so crucial to the fortunes of the Allies?
Because britain depended on the supplies from America, and if Hitler had cut of that path the Allies would have been forced into submission and be DOOMED!
3. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad so important?
After the Soviet Union won, they were able to move West towards Germany (it was also the turning point in the war)
4. What happened in the war in North Africa?
Stalin thought if Great Britain and America opened a second front across the English Channel it would force Hitler to split troops from the Soviet front. Churchill and Roosevelt didn't think that the Allies had enough troops to attempt invasion in Europe. Instead they launched Operation Torch, an invasion of Axis controlled North Africa. Many Allied troops invaded and went eastward. After months of heavy fighting, the Africa Korps. surrendered.
5. What happened after the Allies invaded Italy
Roosevelt and Churchill agreed on the strike against Hitler, and they also thought that Germany and Italy posed a much greater threat than Japan.
2. Why was winning the Battle of the Atlantic so crucial to the fortunes of the Allies?
Because britain depended on the supplies from America, and if Hitler had cut of that path the Allies would have been forced into submission and be DOOMED!
3. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad so important?
After the Soviet Union won, they were able to move West towards Germany (it was also the turning point in the war)
4. What happened in the war in North Africa?
Stalin thought if Great Britain and America opened a second front across the English Channel it would force Hitler to split troops from the Soviet front. Churchill and Roosevelt didn't think that the Allies had enough troops to attempt invasion in Europe. Instead they launched Operation Torch, an invasion of Axis controlled North Africa. Many Allied troops invaded and went eastward. After months of heavy fighting, the Africa Korps. surrendered.
5. What happened after the Allies invaded Italy
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Mobilizing for WWII
1. Selective Service System-pprovided ten million soldiers for the armed forces.
2. Women-Women joined the war effort because the need was great, the force was called the Woman's Auxiliary Army Corp.
3. Minorities-There was discrimination against minorities, but they joined the war effort as well.
4. Manufacturers-Many manufacturers started building machines or technologies meant solely for the purpose of war. Automobile factories began building tanks, or planes.
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)-They researched ways to improve war technologies and life for the soldiers. They created many new drugs.
6 Entertainment industry-They made a lot of propganda to encourage people to join the war effort.
7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)-fought inflation, but freezing the price of goods, taxes were raised and rationed food.
8. War Production Board (WPB)-rationed food and materials so that the rest could go to the soldiers
9. Rationing-apportioned amounts of goods so that what had been set aside could be given to soldiers.
2. Women-Women joined the war effort because the need was great, the force was called the Woman's Auxiliary Army Corp.
3. Minorities-There was discrimination against minorities, but they joined the war effort as well.
4. Manufacturers-Many manufacturers started building machines or technologies meant solely for the purpose of war. Automobile factories began building tanks, or planes.
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)-They researched ways to improve war technologies and life for the soldiers. They created many new drugs.
6 Entertainment industry-They made a lot of propganda to encourage people to join the war effort.
7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)-fought inflation, but freezing the price of goods, taxes were raised and rationed food.
8. War Production Board (WPB)-rationed food and materials so that the rest could go to the soldiers
9. Rationing-apportioned amounts of goods so that what had been set aside could be given to soldiers.
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