World War 2
Allied Powers
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Leader: Winston Churchill
Leader:Roosevelt
Truman(seceded Roosevelt) used atomic bomb
Pearl Harbor:Reason for coming into war
Signed lend lease agreement with GB
Led by Joseph Stalin
Defeated Germany in Stalingrad
Lost 20 million people in the war
Accomplishments:
Invaded France:DDay
June 6, 1944
Coast of Normady
Commander of Europe: Eisenhower
Operation Paperclip: brought Foreign scientists to the Us to make new tech
Started when Germany invaded Poland
Tricked Germany into D-Day by inflatable tanks, German spy capture and operation Bodyguard.
Axis Powers
Germany
Japan
Italy
Lead by Tojo
Lead by Mussolini
Americans put Japanese -Americans in internment camps
Used kamikazes
Bombed by US(atomic)
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki(3 days later)
August 6 and 9, 1945
Not only were they killed by the blast, they were killed by radiation.
Little Boy and Fat Man
Invaded Great Britain after prolonged aerial bombs
Lead by Hitler
Holocaust
Killed 6 million Jews/ other minorities
Forced to move to ghettos
Joined by Tripitite
Important Battles
US:Island Hopping
Turning Point in Pacific:Battle of Midway
Germany's last defense: Battle of the Bulge
Dictator: a leader who controls his country by force
Facism: extreme nationalism and racism
Anti Semitism: hatred of Jews
Totalitarian: a single party and its leaders suppress all opposition and control every aspect of people's lives.