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Robert's WWII Map (End of war), Pacific War (July 28- Japan invaded…
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Pacific War
July 28- Japan invaded French Indochina and plans to invade Indonesia. U.S cuts Japan’s supplies off
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Names- Joseph Rochefort and Agnes Meyer Driscroll, they helped crack the Japan cipher code.
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Rochefort became necessary in the Battle of MIdway, and it was a turning point in the Pacific
Nimitz (another codebreaker) knew Japan was going to invade Australia so he sent naval forces to the Coral Sea to stop Japan
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US wins Battle of Leyte Gulf, taking back the Philippines
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Japan started with 20,000 soldiers, but 19,000 died
Japanese ppl built bunkers, so the US could not find them easily
March 1945- firebombing in Tokyo and it killed 100,000 ppl
April 1945 final battle of the Pacific( Battle of Okinawa) - Japan sent 2000 suicide pilots to our boat and killed 12,000 and wounded 36,000 soldiers
We killed 190,000 civilians/soldiers in all from Japan
The military knew they could not win, so them and many other Japanese ppl committed suicide.
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Background of the war
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Germany had no battleships, tanks, planes, and 100,000 men in the army
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Start of the war
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Allies: Britain, France, Greece, Russia, USA
Axis: Japan, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania
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Operation Barbarossa: Germany invades USSR, violating Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Hitler decided to put up a siege on Leningrad, and starve all the people in the town
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After he retreated, he attacked Stalingrad
Then winter caught up with Germany again, and Germany lost which is a turning point in the war
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Then we took the island, Sicily, Italy
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Operation Fortitude: Allies placed weapons in Calais, the narrowest part of the English Channel
Eisenhower told our troops to destroy trains tracks and bridges, to make hit harder for the Axis to send troops over to Normandy
After we took all those beaches, US continued to invade Germany east and Soviet attacked west.
Went to Berlin, Germany’s capital
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D-Day- biggest ocean invasion ever, 150,000 soldiers died, 7,000 ships, 11,000 planes
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