History Test Questions Essay

Manzanar in CA bolshy of $ & property 100th throng Purple Heart Battalion 442nd Regimental Combat Team fought in Italy, France, Germany Most decorated combat unit in US history for coincidence of length of service Buddha Heads Most japanese-the Statesns served as soldiers in atomic number 63 while interpreters and such went to the peaceful obvious racism/discrimination Minority group most(prenominal) adversely affected by Washington DCs state of contendtime policies was Nipponese-Americans internment costs effects camps prejudice military service Nisei born in the States, so citizens The general attitude toward WWII was less idealistic & ideological & more(prenominal) practical than the outlook in WWI (This is according to the textbook What would Zinn say in Ch 16? ) In the period of 1885 to 1924, the Japanese immigrants who came to the USA were a select group (representing Japan abroad, so Japan cared who was sent) who was/were better prepared & educate d than most atomic number 63an immigrants (so they were spunk class & usually had $)Ex. Japan felt represented wanted to avoid Chinese bachelors of 19th century so picture brides When the USA entered WWII in declination (7th attack at Pearl, war declared on 8th), 1941, a majority of Americans had no clear idea of what the war was about * WWI had campaigned (but many people didnt know in WWI either Ex.Sergeant York & Gallipoli) During WWII, the US govt commissioned the end product of synthetic rubber in order to offset the loss of glide path to prewar supplies in E. Asia (ex. French Indochina/Vietnam, Cambodia, & Loas) Wartime agencies & functions War Production Board assign priorities w/respect to use of raw materials & transportation facilities Office of Price regime controlled inflation by circumscribe essential goodsWar Labor Board imposed ceilings (maximums) on wage increases F personal credit line meshing Practices Commission (FEPC) saw to it that no hiring disc rimination practices were used against Af-Ams seeking employment in war industries * A Philip Randolph 1941 threatened to march on Wash DC to demand compare in hiring FDR feared march so made a deal to announce Executive Order 8802 for Af-Ams fair employment in wartime industries Randoplh was leader of spousal relationship of Sleeping Car Porters union (mostly Af-Ams but some whites likewise began in 1920s) While most US cropers were strongly committed to the war effort, wartime production was disrupted by strikes led by the united Mine Workers (Why? Exploitation w/unequal distribution of wartime net profit. ) * Coal mining is almost as unfit as war in fact they die more than any different industrial workers, both back then and today only beef ishing is truly more hazardous by proportion although they are very much safer today During WWII labor unions substantially increased their membership There were some strikes Ex. United Mine Workers unfair distribution of wartime profits * Bracero Program p. 833 Mexicans work in agriculture & some industries (later deported in the offensive function Wetback) Ironic after 1930s treatment in CA for example Okies for Mexicans, etc Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act June 1943 federal govt could seize industries if strikes occurred Ex.Coal mines and RRs briefly p. 832 Employment of more than 6 million women in America (3 million had never worked for wages ahead) industry during WWII led to the establishment of day-care centers by govt (*Rosie vs. Wendy) Usually single women or w/husband in the war were the ones working in defense plants/war industries * Not equal indemnify for equal work in almost all cases although some women earned as good or better currency if they were outstanding some were indeed Ex. P. 33 WOW poster * My recruiting posters & WWII aircraft pictures * Not heavy(p)er % of women working in USA than in Europe Ex. Britain & USSR in war industries * Increase in employment in war industries for Af-Ams (both men & women) * Migrations from South as Af-Ams circulate while to the South came war industries and military bases Why? Cheap wages & very few unions * Not a strong desire for most women to work for wages (especially in defense industries, etc) *** p. 833 WAACs, WAVES, SPARS, (WASPs) GI Goernment Issue * USCG & Merchant Marine Main reason majority of women workers left labor force at end of WWII was family obligation Af-Ams did all of following during WWII rally behind slogan of Double V (victory over Axis & racism at home), stemma upon north & west in large migrations (seeking work often in war industries) (move to cities urban begins to mean b lose) (ghettos created not like Jewish ghettos in Poland, etc) (de facto vs. de jure/Jim Crow segregation & discrimination Ex.Race riots in Detroit in 1943 later race riots in north in 1960s excessively), form a warring organization called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE 1942 & increase in NA ACP membership), serve (in US military) in (US) Army Air Corps (Tuskegee Airmen 332nd/99th w/impeccable enrol no misfireers befogged on their escorts Benjamin O. Davis sr. & Benjamin O. Davis jr. West Point grads endured silent treatment from whites Davis sr. is first Af-Am general in US history Davis jr. was in command of 99th squadron see picture on . 835), What about fighting in integrated combat units?Not until Korea (w/ ejection of a few experiments) Which is least related to the other three? A Philip Randolph (Bro of Sleep Car Porters threat to march on Wash DC in 1941 led to Executive Order 8802 in 1963, helped organize march to Wash DC for MLK jrs I Have a Dream speech. Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC to protect Af-Ams to be hired and treated fairly in war industries), racial discrimination in wartime industry (still even w/FEPC there was discrimination but better than w/out it), proposed negro March on Washington, What about the Smith-Connally (An ti- Strike) Act (1943)?On pp. 834-836 Migration interpret on p. 834 * like production in South hurt Af-Am laborers, tenant, and sharecropping farmers (whites too who did this many) w/ introduction of mechanization so migration p. 836 * Native Americans 25,000 serve Ex. Comanche in Europe & Navajo in Pacific code talkers p. 836 *** LA, CA summer 1943 Zoot Suit Riots Pachucos vs. Servicemen violence retaliation gangs blame reactions tensions Victory Suits race riots p. 836-837 ** Race riot in Detroit, MI in 1943 fatalities pp. 36-837 loose govt intervention received its greatest boost from WWII (not the New Deal) During WWII, most Ams economically experienced prosperity & a doubling of own(prenominal) income p. 837 national Gross theme Product (all goods and services produced in USA) in 1940 was $100 meg GNP grew to $200 billion in 1945 corporate profits rose from $6 billion in 1940 to $12 billion by 1944 Henry Stimson ( dry of War) if you are going to try to go to war in a capitalist sylvan, you have to let business make money out of the process, or business wont work. p. 837 * disposable income after war-time taxes more than bivalent (but there was inflation too) * post-war consumerism w/sur positivist income to purchase in post-war US economy Ex increase 33% in post war prices b/c of high wages & consumer demand * Office of Scientific Research and Development p. 37 developed weapons, including atomic (nuclear) bombs *** warfare-welfare state b/t 1941-1945 * rationing total war effort bond drives kids had Al drives for example, etc Ex of poster When you ride ALONE, you ride with Hitler Black Market Chart for Rise in National Debt rise b/c of WWII and after war it spiked higher than during war p. 837 On p. 38 Cost of war in $ was for USA $330 billion 10 times more than WWI more $ than all federal spending since 1776 income tax 4 times as many people than ahead war some people taxed as high as 90% of income ta xes provided for 2/5ths of war cost rest is borrowed from US public liberty Loans Bond Drives others loaned $ too like individuals who were rich tycoons & moguls and/or with corporations & banks 1941 National Debt was $49 billion grew to $259 billion in 1945 war cost $10 million per hour at peak of war plus decline, sweat, & tears tremendous loss of life Ex.USSR lost more than any other country Northward migration of Af-Ams speed up after WWII b/c mechanical cotton pickers ( machines) were in use p. 836 During WWII, American Indians moved off of reservations in large numbers (25,000 served in military) p. 836 By the end of WWII, the heart of USAs Af-Am communities had shifted to northern cities pp. 834-835 * p. 836 The speed and scale of these changes jolted the migrants and sometimes the communities that received them. * Racism, de facto segregation vs. de jure (Jim Crow) segregation Migartion map on p. 834 National debt increased most during World War II (and po st-WWII to present) p. 838 Most $ raised to finance WWII came with borrowing (individuals, corporations bonds for middle class & working class people) (*Liberty/Victory Loans bond sales hugely promoted) p. 38 First naval battle in history in which all of the fighting was done by (aircraft) carrier-based aircraft was the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942 near NE Australia Tie to stop Japanese threat/invasion of the Land Down Under USA lost one carrier USS Lexington USS Yorktown carrier badly damaged but back in action at Midway where she was finally sunk by a Japanese hoagy after extensive damage from aircraft that left her a burning wreck) * Midway 2nd such battle b/t carrier fleets so far apart they never see each other June 3rd-6th, 1942 the turning point of the Pacific war p. 839 The tide of Japanese triumph in the Pacific was turned following the Battle of Midway (June 3rd-6th, 1942) * Details our 3 carriers to their 4 we sank all four and lost only one planes mass plans codes drama Spruance, Nimitz, etc plus Aleutian Islands (of Alaska) attacked just before Midway was diversion, which was fairly useful cold, brutal fighting over frozen, barren islands, but were US grease like Hawaii pp. 39-841 Japanese made a crucial mistake in 1942 in their attempt to control much of the Pacific when they over lengthened themselves instead of digging in & consolidating their gains p. 839 Japanese victories in Pacific up through first 6 months extended down to Dutch East Indies (for oil), southeastern United States Asia (for rubber), including Burma and Thailand into parts of chinaware, the Philippines, the Marianas such as Guam, the Gilbets, the Marshalls, the Solomons, the Aleutians, Korea and Manchuria, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, etc- They held it for about 6 months after Pearl Harbor before confederate advances began.In waging war against Japan, the USA relied primarily on a dodging of (leapfrogging and) island-hopping across the South (an d Central) Pacific while by-passing Japanese strongholds (whenever possible but not always Ex. Philippines & Pelelieu & Aleutians) MacArthur/US Army & Halsey in South USMC & Nimitz/Spruance in Central Pacific All strategies considered & implemented in some fashion heavy bombing from Chinese air bases, invading SE Asia & Burma, fortifying China transporting supplies from India over the Hump of the Himalayas, & turning Japanese flanks in New Guinea (MacArthur) & Alaska (Aleutians) * All were done but priority was put on USN, US Army, USMC, USAAC (USAF), & USCG in two prong drive across south & central Pacific with Adm.Nimitz calling the shots Conquest of Guam (Marianas Tinian & Saipan too) in 1944 was especially critical, b/c from there (the Marianas) the USA could dispense round-trip bombing raids (B-29s) on Japanese home islands But a repelling volcanic sulfur-smelling small island with large 500 foot hill on its southwestern corner on it called Iwo Jima was in the way cou ld notify Japan that bombers were coming plus many damaged bombers needed the life-sustaining air deprive on the island for emergency landings so in Feb of 1945, USMC began its biggest, most-distinguished battle lasting 36 days in Hell before the island was completely secure giving us two flag raisings on Mt. Suribachi the 2nd becoming perhaps the most famous photograph in the entire world Semper Fi, Do or Die, Gung Ho Allies won Battle of Atlantic by escorting convoys of merchants (and military) vessels (not using convoy system initially) Ex. Carrier & other Task Forces, dropping depth charges from destroyers, bombing submarine (U-boat) bases (Ex. located in France), deploying new technology of RADAR At wars end, U-boat crews are in a very deadly carve up of voluntarily service & still got volunteers up until the end 4 out of 5 U-boaters die by late 1944 Adm Downitz asked for more before war didnt get them, used convoy system w/ destroyer escorts depth charges RADAR (B-24s & B-25s, other planes as sub hunters) SONAR Enigma code machine & codes (read Japanese codes in Pacific too) US subs sink lots of ships (especially in Pacific), But what about organizing wolf packs (which are German U-boats) to chase down German U-boats (submarines)? *** Battle of the Atlantic Most important battle in Western EuropeUntil Spring 1943, perhaps Hitlers greatest opportunities of defeating Britain & winning the war was the German U-boat would destroy Allied shipping (which it was faster than ships could be built former(a) in war) Hitlers advance in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at the Battle of Stalingrad, after which, his fortunes gradually declined * Leningrad, Kursk, Red Army, Counter-Offensives pp. 841-842 Monte Cassino in Italy Allies postponed opening a wink front in Europe until 1944 b/c of British reluctance (b/c of the majority of troops would be supplied by them that early in the war) & lack of adequate resources * Wed have gott en our butts handed to us by the Germans as indeed we did really until 1943 we needed to learn how to fight Stalin was angry we left his country to suffer while we lagged in opening a second front n France to relieve the USSR cannot blame him entirely FDRs promise to the Soviets to open a second front in Western Europe by end of 1942 was utterly impossible to keep (just not ready for the undertaking really) * So USSR got pounded through most of 1942 before it went on the offensive in 1943 and until the end of the war really meanwhile, the Allies invaded North Africa, then Sicily, then up the boot of Italy before two major invasions of France in June & Aug of 1944 Allied demand for mat surrender was criticized mainly by opponents who believed that such a surrender would encourage the enemy to hold out as long as possible (but USA withal did this to show a ommitment to USSR as an Ally against Germany to avoid a separate peace as in WWI) FDRs & Churchills insistence on the a bsolute and unconditional surrender of Germany eventually complicated the problems of postwar reconstruction Chronology Casablanca, Morocco Jan 1943 FDR & Churchill meet Pacific strategy, Sicily, Italy, unconditional surrender p. 842, (Cairo, Egypt before Teheran w/FDR & Churchill discuss Chiang & Mao vs. Japanese in China), then Teheran, Iran (Persia at the time) Nov 28th Dec 1st, 1943 plans for W & E attacks on Germany p. 844 FDR, Churchill, Stalin, Potsdam, Germany July 1945 Truman, Churchill, Stalin Potsdam Declaration & how to end war & post-war plans p. 851 Chronology Invasion of (Sicily and) Italy (1943), D-Day/Normandy invasion (June 6th, 1944), VE Day 5/8/45 my mother turned 6 years old (my don turned 6 years old 10 days later) she had two brothers in this war (others in Korea & Vietnam) one would come home from Europe w/2 Purple Hearts served under Patton in N Africa & was at the Bulge his eye was hanging out of his head attached by the oculus nerve they saved his eye but the war messed the young man up for the rest of his life mentally carrying the burdens of death her other brother was in Pacific he would not come home until Japan was beaten VJ Day 8/15/45 Japans surrender was 8/14/45 official surrender on deck of battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay was 9/2/45 WWII was finally over after many deaths military & ivilian (WWII began in 1931-37 in Asia, Sept 1939 in Europe, Dec 1941 for USA in Pacific) Major consequence of Allied conquest of Sicily in Aug 1943 was overthrow of Mussolini (first of two times) and (eventually) Italys surrender o Italians surrender quicker than the French At least they claim to be lovers not fighters but the Romans mischievously put a foot in and/or up ones booty in battle as a vicious warrior conglomerate known for organization in fighting After Italian surrender in Aug 1943, Germans poured into Italy and stalled the Allied advance (really until the end of the war in Northern Italy besi des harsh to Italians for switching sides) Real impact of the Italian front on WWII may have been that it delayed the D-Day invasion & allowed the Soviet Union to advance advertize into E Europe (iron curtain) Brutal fighting in Italy Ex pp. 841-842 Monte Cassino in Italy Audie Murphy was in Italy, France, & Germany 442nd Nisei were in Italy, France, & Germany US First Army The Big Red One Tuskegee airmen (99th squadron of 332nd fighter group)Italians switched sides Germans reinforced bloody battles b/c of terrain Ex. Anzio * I disagree w/this Italy was a vital & valuable front perhaps managed poorly, but necessary At the wartime conference in Teheran, Iran (Persia) (11-28 thru 12-1-43) (FDR, Churchill, Stalin) plans were made for opening a 2nd front in Europe p. 844 was Sicily & Italy before France Stalin still not happy Cross Channel (English Channel) invasion of Normandy (in NW France) to open a 2nd front in Europe was commanded by Gen Dwight David Eisenhower (future p resident) Ike West Point, Aide of MacArthur, Bonus Army, North Africa, Great political general needed for this command to deal w/ the prima- onnas US Gen Patton and British Gen Montgomery (Monty) plus other issues he was the right man for the job although many disagreed about that at the time ***** Normandy/D-Day June 6th, 1944 (operation Overlord) & Breakout 5 beaches Monty, Bradley, Patton diversion pointed at Calais, French Underground, airborne/Gliders/Paratroopers, Rangers, Amphibious, Air Superiority, Mulberry Harbors, Strategy, Hedgerows, Engineers, Etc (Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day) In a sense, FDR was the forgotten man at the Democratic Convention of 1944 b/c so much attention was focused on who would be VP (Truman Sen from MO political machine failed in business US Army rtillery Major in WWI ) (VP & former Sec of Ag Henry Wallace pushed out) (FDR in poor health) ** FDR complained of a headache and then shortly thereafter died from cerebral hemorrhage sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, GA (where his health spa for his rehab for polio was) on April 12th, 1945 funeral train some people had really only known FDR as president, now Truman was the great unknown trying to replace FDR Eleanor said to Harry, The president is dead. Truman replied, Is there anything I can do for you. Mrs Roosevelt responded, Oh no, is there anything that we can do for you, youre the one who is in trouble now. FDR won 1944 election primarily b/c war was going well by Nov 1944 (many thought it was all but officially won and over) Action by USA against Adolf Hitlers campaign of genocide against the Jews was reprehensively slow in coming Did not admit large numbers of refugees to USA, nor bomb RR lines at death camps USA did know Govt knew for sure since 1942 when final solution was implemented US govt knew before if they chose to believe it (plus Mein Kampf, Hitlers book), not major reason at all really that USA fought WWII like Civil War sort of in that abolition of slavery was a byproduct that many Federal/Union soldiers did not realize they were fighting for at the beginning of the war, nor would many of them fought for that ideal anywaymy opinionso you know its correct ( Hitlers last ditch attempt to achieve victory against the USA & British (plus other Allies) came in Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944-Jan 1945) My uncle FL was there got that nasty eye wound Hurtgen Forrest (When Trumpets Fade) before Bulge near Achaen in W Germany almost on Belgian border brutal mine palm slaughter overshadowed by Bulge so largely forgotten Bulge why its called the Battle of the Bulge weather secrecy push through weak Ardennes Malmady Mr. High casualties 76,000 US worst battle in US history (Okinawa close, Gettysburg too) Germans lost 140,000+ cold no air cover for weeks Bastogne 101st airborne (Band of Brothers) 101st at Normandy, Market Garden, Bastogne, Hitlers Eagles Nest Patton & 3rd Army costly choice to push bulg e back quite an than pinch it (liposuction) air cover returns push to the Rhine USSR pushing from the East USSR in Berlin brutalAs result of Battle of Leyte Gulf Japan was finished a s a naval power (Philippines 1944 largest naval battle ever Halsey Taffy 3 Kamikazes Yamato) Philippines fell 500 POWs rescued at Cabanatuan (The Great Raid) hold outs in to 1970s Iwo Jima and Okinawa and Japanese home islands left to take to end Pacific war ***** War of attrition in Pacific to the death rarely took prisoners on either side unless want information Potsdam Conference issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender of face a rain of ruin from the air Its already lining a rain of ruin from the air as did German cities p. 851 Potsdam Conference (Truman told Stalin of massive weapon to use on Japan Stalin not surprised (b/c he knew from spies already) told Truman to use it & promised to enter war in Pacific as he had agreed to earlier entered war 8/8/45, day before 2nd A-bomb on Nagasaki that time, Hiroshima the first on 8/6/45) Total unconditional surrender or be destroyed threat of more bombing not specific as to use of an atomic bomb more bombing so what already taking that Spending of enormous sums of money on the original (to be used against Germany) atomic (nuclear) bomb project (Manhattan Project) was spurred by the belief that the American public would not tolerate the (massive) casualties that would result from a land invasion of Japan (***** Much More Complex Than That ***** Letter c in the answer choices The Japanese were (still) at work (and more prosperous than Germans who tried heavy piddle in Norway but suffered to sabotage attacks one at the plant, the other sinking a ferry w/the heavy water on board still at bottom of the lake in Norway) on an atomic bomb of their own (claim to have detonated one in Manchuria) ***** Japanese had lots of weapons ready for the Final Battle or invasion of Japan, which was planned & ready to go they also had chemical weapons from Shiro Ishis Unit 731 in Manchuria chemical & biological weapons delivery systems Ex. High altitude balloons, flea bombs, etc- USA made post-war deal w/ the DevilNo war crimes trials for vivisections, experiments, infection of disease, anthrax, plague, etc The unconditional surrender policy toward Japan was finally modified by agreeing to let Japans Emperor Hirohito stay on the throne (w/Democratic govt) * No war crimes trials for emperor Tojo took the fall for emperor no Shiro Ishi or members of Unit 731 unlike Nazis let Japan have terms that Germany did not get then USA built up former enemies (W Germany & Japan) into allies while former allies (USSR< etc) became enemies COLD WAR The following were qualities of US participation in WWIIA group of highly effective military & political leaders, an enormously effective effort in producing weapons & supplies (usually more, & later, better equipment than enemies out produced the Axis), th e preservation of the American homeland against invasion or destruction from air (small submarine skirmishes & some off-shore shelling, & some balloons w/explosives in 48 continental USA), the maintenance & re-affirmation of strength of democracy, What about a higher % of military casualties than any other Allied nation (USA had least casualties of big ones USSR suffered more casualties than any country on either side) p. 27 FDR as all wise for Germany first strategy over those who disagree Pacific war always get ripped off p. 828 Allies Trade Space for Time * German (& Japanese) scientists weapons A-Bombs pp. 829-832 The Shock of War pp. 830-831 Japanese-Am Internment (Farewell to Manzanar) Issei, Nisei, Exec Order 9066 (100th/442nd) pp. 832-833 Building the War Machine * strikes Ex Coal Miners exploited, underpaid share profits Kaiser shipbuilding pp. 833-834 Man power & Woman power Braceros (later deportations in Operation Wetback) Rosie (Wendy) day-cares p. 834 War mig ration map pp. 835-837 wartime migrations p. 835 Tuskegee Airmen photo p. 835 A Philip Randolph (Exec Order 8802) **** (Charles Drew Af-Am did first successful blood transfusion put in charge of Allied blood banks he was forced to segregate blood too his death outside a hospital after an accident died waiting for a blood tranfusion b/c white hospital would not admit him) p. 835 Double V, CORE 1942, NAACP membership increases p. 836 Comanche (Europe) & Navajo (Pacific) code talkers pp. 836-837 Zoot Suit Riots in LA, CA 1943 & Detroit, MI 1943 jerky rubbing against one another of unfamiliar peoples produced some distressingly violent action. pp. 837-838 Holding the Homefront p. 837 National Debt Chart pp. 838-839 The Rising Sun in the Pacific p. 838 Map of Luzon, Bataan, & Corrigador (Philippines) p. 838 (Mao and ) Chiang Kai-shek resist Japanese w/Allied help p. 38 Flying the Hump in Himalayas (b/c of Burma Road Merrils Mauraders & Gen Stillwell) p. 838 ill-trained Filipinos , MacArthur holds fast delays Japanese Bataan ending March (POW rescue) p. 839 Japans High Tide at Midway (plus Aleutians) pp. 839-841 American Leapfrogging Toward Tokyo (island-hopping & leapfrogging like blitzkrieg Pacific style) * Book does opposite of Europe First strategy of Allies Guam (Saipan suicides), Marianas Turkey Shoot F6F Hellcat kill ratio 6-20-44 Battle of Philippine Sea massive Japanese losses p. 840 Map of Pacific War p. 841 Churchill The Hun is always either at you throat or at your feet. pp. 841-842 The Allied Halting of Hitler p. 41 Battle of the Atlantic U-boats, destroyers, RADAR, SONAR, Enigma, New U-boats (not bountiful early in war Downitz) no sub can stay under indefinitely b/c food is limitation (U-571) pp. 842-843 A turn Front from North Africa to Rome p. 842 USSR lost 20 million pp. 842-843 unconditional surrender debate & results pp. 843-846 D-Day June 6th, 194p. 845 Examining the Evidence Teheran 1943 Overlord Discussion (* Dieppe in F rance) p. 844 Ike chosen to command D-Day invasion (feignt w/Patton at Calais codes, underground, paratroopers, Rangers, 5 beaches, air power, Mulberry harbors, etc) p. 846 D-Day (Agincourt 1415 officer recited Shakespeare) in picture caption p. 846 Aug 1944 invasion of S France (A Murphy) pp. 846-847 FDR Four white ant of 1944 p. 47 Focus on VP Truman on Sen Committee for Wasteful Spending told to stop investigating Manhattan Project he later learns it was Atomic Bombs p. 848 FDR defeats Dewey FDR had Rep possess newspapers against him again p. 848 Quote from Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce He lied us into war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it. pp. 848-849 The Last Days of Hitler p. 849 Map of Battle of the Bulge * 76,000 casualties worst US battle ever so far * Okinawa & Gettysburg were both very bad too Bulge mistakes p. 848 bombings pp. 848-849 (Remagen) Rhine River crossing into Germany p. 849 Holocaust camps liberated horrors known now for all (unit 731 in Manchuria) p. 849 FDRs deathVE Day 5-8-45 pp. 49-851 Japan Dies Hard US subs sinking Japanese ships cutting off Japans vital lifeline sank 1. 042 ships 50% of Japans merchant fleet p. 850 Bombings in Japan Ex. Tokyo 3/9-10/1945 83,000 KIA p. 850 Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, & Pkinawa short-changed as usual by textbooks that suck Iwo Jima 6,000 KIA not 4,000 Okinawa 50,000 US casualties (KIA, WIA, MIA, POW) Okinawa, Japanese had 200,000 military & civilian casualties p. 851 2nd Flag Raising (Flags of Our Fathers, letter from Iwo Jima, The Sands of Iwo Jima) p. 851 Kamikazes (Saipan & Leyte, then Iwo & Okinawa worst of all no Final Battle wouldve been worst) They had lots stored up for the Final Battle pp. 851-853 Atomic Bombs p. 52 Hiroshima picture post-bomb on 8-6-45 180,000 KIA, WIA, MIA 70,000 KIA instantly 60,000 died later from radiation, etc p. 852 USSR enters war in Pacific on 8-8-45 day before Nagasaki 8-9-45 KIA of 40,000 instantly, more later US SR invaded Manchuria & North Korea (not a country split N & S until 1950) 8-14-45 Japan surrendered 8-15-45 VJ Day official surrender on deck of battleship USS Missouri (Big Mo) on 9/2/45 w/MacArthur , etc pp. 853-854 The Allies Triumphant p. 853 US casualties 1 million 1/3rd KIA plasma, penicillin, (quanine for malaria), etc. (medics, corpsman, doctors, nurses) USSR lost 20 million plus more casualties 13. 6 million military killed plus 7. 2 million civilians killed plus up to 30 million more wounded and refugees p. 853 US attacked on W chute Ex balloons w/bombs, etc.. & submarines on both coasts p. 853 In the end, the US showed itself to be resourceful, tough, and adaptable to accommodate itself to the tactics of an enemy who was relentless and ruthless. Kind of funny accustomed US history dont you think? p. 854 VJ Day 8-15-45 image p. 854 production marvels won war through production more of everything then eventually better & more Churchill Nothing succeeds like excess . Herman Goering (Head of German air force/Luftwaffe Americans cant build planes only electric ice boxes and razor blades. Goering also said that the P-51 Mustang (US fighter plane) won the war for the Allies p. 854 But the American people preserved their precious liberties without serious impairment. What would Zinn say? Is this a reference to loss of liberties during WWI Espionage and Sedition Acts? What would enemy aliens and citizens interned during the war say? Ex. Italian & German internment Japanese-American internment p. 854 Chronology p. 855 World War II Triumph or Tragedy? Post-war scholarship was to avoid isolationist appeasement in Cold War other paralleled 1930s revisionist of post-WWI said US should have stayed out made it worse Another thought FDR was naive isolationistOthers thought FDR was a calculating interventionist Another focused on Atomic Bombs controversy racism issue or quantify b/c Germans were beaten already Gar Alperovitz said bomb was used to s care USSR & hurry surrender MartinJ. Sherwin said we dropped A-bombs when ready to end was ASAP w/bonus of scaring USSR ***** Textbook ignores Rises to Power of Totalitarian leaders like Stalin (communist), Mussolini (fascist), Hitler (fascist), & Japans militarist govt w/emporer Hirohito led by Tojo early in war he took the fall It does not explain the role of the emperor in Japans govt Battle of Berlin brutal pay back refugees rapes POWs Hitlers death