1. Important Information
After serious consideration, plans have been changed…
We will have a 20 question quiz on Unit 6: WWII TOMORROW.
When we get back from Spring Break, we MAY do in-class test corrections
If you aren’t here tomorrow, you’ll be taking the quiz the day we get back from break

2. Analyzing Japanese Internment
Respond to the following question in ONE paragraph (5-7 sentences).
Make sure you use textual evidence to support your argument.
Essential Question:
Was the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII a matter of national security or racial prejudice?

3. WWII: The Fighting,
#10 in your binder

4. Allied strategy In Europe - “Defeat Hitler First” strategy
Most American military resources were targeted for Europe.

5. Allied strategy In the Pacific
“Island hopping”: Allied strategy to seize islands closer and closer to Japan and use them as bases for air attacks on Japan
Cut off Japanese supplies through submarine warfare against Japanese shipping.

6. Axis strategy
Blitzkrieg: “lightning war”; Tactic used by the Germans that called for a swift and surprise attack
Used a bombing and submarine warfare campaign to force Britain out of the war
Goal was to complete this before America’s industrial and military strength could turn the tide.

7. Europe Stalingrad: Months-long siege of the Russian city of Stalingrad
Hundreds of thousands of German soldiers were killed or captured
Defeat prevented Germany from seizing the Soviet oil fields and turned the tide against Germany in the east.

8. Europe Normandy (D-Day) —
American and Allied troops landed in German-occupied France on June 6, 1944.
Despite intense German opposition and heavy American casualties, the landings succeeded and liberation of western Europe from Hitler had begun.

9. Europe Battle of the Bulge - Dec. 1944
Last major German offensive on the Western front; Battle was to be great enough to cause peace treaty in the Axis’ favor
Allies came out on top due to the strategy of General George Patton, the leading American general in WWII

11. The Pacific The “Miracle of Midway”
American naval forces defeated a much larger Japanese force
American victory ended the Japanese threat to Hawaii
Began a series of American victories in the “island hopping” campaign

12. Iwo Jima and Okinawa
American invasions of the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Cost thousands of American lives and even more Japanese lives
fought over every square inch of the islands
Japanese soldiers and civilians committed suicide rather than surrender.

14. The Atomic Bomb Manhattan Project: Led by J. Robert Oppenheimer
This was the project which developed the atomic bomb which was dropped on Japan.

15. Why use the Bomb?
Idea of horrendous casualties among both sides if American forces had to invade Japan itself
President Harry Truman ordered the use of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force the Japanese to surrender.

16. Impact of the Bomb
Tens of thousands of people were killed in both cities.
The Japanese leaders surrendered, avoiding the need for American forces to invade Japan.

20. Question: Was the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified?

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