Ending WWII

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Ending WWII
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The War in the Pacific

• Atlantic Charter
• Joint declaration of war aims
• Pledge to each other
• Collective security
• Disarmament
• Self-determination
• Economic cooperation
• Freedom of the seas
• Suggestion of a United Nations
• Signed by 26 nations

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Japan

• Goal was to united East Asia under Japanese
  control
• Took over bases in Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia,
  and Laos)
• US cuts off trade with Japan
• Tojo tells Hirohito he will preserve peace with
  US
• Meanwhile prepares for naval attack

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Japan (cont)

• More than 180 war planes bomb Pearl Harbor
• 2,403 dead in 2 hours
• 1,178 wounded
• 21 ships, 8 battleships, sunk or damaged
• 300 aircraft damaged or destroyed

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US Reaction

• Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will
  ive in infamy, the Japanese launched an
  unprovoked and dastardly attack.
• Congress quickly approved declaration of war
• 3 days later Germany Italy declare war on US

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US Defenses

• 1942 WAC Womens Army Corp
• 13,000 Chinese Americans 33,000 Japanese
  Americans 300,000 Mexican Americans 1,000,000
  African Americans
• 6 million women out of 18 million workers in
  factories

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Federal Government

• Office of Price Administration
• Froze prices on most goods, fighting inflation
• Raised income tax, people had less to spend
• Buy war bonds
• War Production Board
• Decided which companies would convert from
  peacetime to wartime production allocated
  resources
• Nation-wide drives for scrap metal
• OPA Rationing
• Coupons books

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War Progresses

• US looking at defeat in Atlantic
• Soviets defeat Germany at Stalingrad
• Operation Torch
• Dwight D Eisenhower
• Allies defeat Axis
• Italy freed 1945
• Tuskegee Airmen

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D-Day

• After 7 days of fighting allies held 80 mile
  strip of France
• General Patton
• Liberate France
• Dear Ike Today I spat in the Seine
• By Sept 1944
• France, Belgium, Luxembourg free

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Battle of the Bulge

• Americans capture first German city
• Lead to Nazi retreat
• Allied troops pressed Eastward liberate the death
  camps
• V-E Day Victory in Europe Day
• May 8, 1945
• Roosevelt dies of a stroke, Truman becomes
  president

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