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The Second World War (1939-1945) - Coggle Diagram
The Second World War (1939-1945)
Political Ideas
Winston, US President and Stalin the Tehran Conference, aim to come together invade France and take down Nazi Germany.
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
Winston Churchill
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)
Prisoners of War/American Prisonerns
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
Trinity Testing
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.
Pearl Harbour
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.
Atrocities against woman/Russians against eastern European woman
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,"