The Second World War (1939-1945)

Political Ideas

Winston Churchill

Prisoners of War/American Prisonerns

Trinity Testing

Pearl Harbour

  • Winston, US President and Stalin the Tehran Conference, aim to come together invade France and take down Nazi Germany.
  • On the 7th of December 1941 the Japaneses navy troops launched an attack on Honolulu
  • The attack occurred as Japanese wanted to prevent the United states from interfering with their plans for south east Asia.
  • At the time, it was rumoured that the Arial attack crew has made a mistake by firing two flares.
  • Isoroku Yamamoto lead the Pearl Harbour bombing
  • 2,403 U.S. personnel died
  • In that group, 68 civilians died
  • 19 U.S. Navy ships, including 8 battleships were destroyed and damaged.
  • Lead Briton to victory during world war two
  • He was British prime minister from 1940-1945 and1951 and 1955.
  • Winston Churchill was most famous for his inspiring speeches at times of disorder.
  • he was influential during the war as he informed the west about the threat of the soviet union.
  • Famous Sayings/speeches: 'Blood, toil, tears and sweat' (13 May), 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches' (4 June) and 'This was their Finest Hour' (18 June)
  • 27,000 Americans taken prisoner by the Japanese
  • The treatment of prisoners was cruel and inhumane, often beaten stared and held against their will.
  • some soldiers were even eaten as cannibalism was practised by the Japanese
  • Many were sent to work in mines and factories
  • 40% of POWs died in captivity

Atrocities against woman/Russians against eastern European woman

  • location: Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945
  • the nigh before the bomb was guarded during a lightning stom
  • more concerns about calculations that could trigger uncontrollable condition in the atmosphere
  • The bomb calculations were a decimal off
  • “Trinity” for the test site, inspired by the poetry of John Donne.
  • estimations over 100,000 women were raped by Soviet soldiers in Berlin during and after The Battle of Berlin
  • when the allies gained control on the western front many German woman were assaulted by American, Canadian, British, French and Soviet soldiers.
  • According to theconversation.com, "the International Criminal Court considers a woman’s actual consent to sexual activity irrelevant when that consent is obtained by a male soldier taking advantage of a coercive environment.”
  • stories of red army soldiers taking dangerous chemicals from labs and intoxicating themselves before assaulting the woman
  • Many veterans were still denying the claims of assault or reasoning it with statments like, "Our fellows were so sex-starved,"
  • US election 1940 war wasn't looking good, and problems arising back home with civilians goods being turned into war materials.
  • key resources were lacking, such as rubber, aluminum, and steel
  • bickering between democratic and republicans
  • Key political debates over Industrial Mobilisation in the US