World War II

History M25 - Krister Swanson - Moorpark College

• Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation

• The Good Neighbor Policy

• The Price of Noninvolvement

• Nazi Aggression and War in Europe

• From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy

• Japan Attacks America

• Home-Front Security

• Building a Citizen Army

• Conversion to a War Economy

• carrier group air battles-your planes attack their ships & vice versa

• "island hopping"- bombard, invade, remove enemy, set it up as a base

• Use submarines to attack enemy's shipping

• Japanese don’t dig in & consolidate, fight for every island

War in the Pacific

Key Points on the Pacific

• Navajo code talkers used to encrypt communications

• Philippines important strategically and symbolically

• Tragedy of Saipan due to anti-United States propaganda

• Iwo Jima seen as final hurdle to Japan

• 1900 Kamikaze attacks at Okinawa

Timeline of War in Europe

• 8/40: Battle of Britain

• 8/41: Atlantic Charter

• 12/41: U.S. enters the war

• 9/42: Stalingrad

• 11/42: Operation Torch (N. Africa)

• 7/43: Invasion of Sicily then Italy

• 1942-45: Battle of the Atlantic and Air Raids over Italy & Germany

More Timeline

• Late ’43: Stalin is demanding a true 2^nd front in France (Tehran)

• Eisenhower & Allies plan Operation Overlord, launched 6/6/44 (D-Day)

• 8/44: Allies into Paris

• 12/44: Germans counterattack at the Bulge

War in Europe

• Losses

• Everything up to 8/42 (Hitler builds the Festung Europa)

• Wins

• North Africa

• Sicily & Italy

• Stalingrad

• D-Day

• Bulge