George Patton-helped lead the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis Describe the significance of the key military actions listed below. Battle | Dates | Description | The Battle of the Atlantic | September 1939-May 1945 | The longest battle of WWII began when Britain declared war and ended with Germany’s surrender to the Allies. | The Battle of Stalingrad | August 23, 1942- February 2,1943 | Major battle, Nazi Germany and allies fought the Soviet Union | The North African Front | June 10, 1940- May 13, 1943 | Fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts. Axis and Allied forced pushed each other back and forth on the deserts. | The Italian Campaign | 1943- the end of the war in Europe | A military effort for Canada during WWII.
Marching their prisoners toward camps in northern Luzon, the Japanese denied food and water to the sick and starving men. When the weakest prisoners began to straggle, guards shot or bayoneted them and threw the bodies to the side of the road. Japanese guards may have killed 600 Americans and 10,000 Filipino prisoners. News of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had outraged the American people; news of the "Bataan Death March" filled them with bitter hatred. By May 1942 the Japanese had succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.
The Japanese decided to plan an attack on the United States because the U.S stoppped oil transportation to them. 9. The girls are excited because they have only one patient, and he has sunburn. 10.The U.S ordered more ships transferred to Pearl Harbor because Hitler and the Nazi's were a bigger threat. 11.
Taku Mbeng 3/1/13 Period 1 Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway was a result of the Japanese Navy bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. Japan feared they would be vulnerable for attack and would lose their land. The Japanese Navy planned to capture Midway which was a U.S. base hoping to eliminate the U.S. from the war destroying their fleet. Japans plans did not work because the U.S. knew every single attack they planned and when they were going to attack. They found out the information through radio communications and code breaking.
Japanese warplanes bombed the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack led the United States to declare war on Japan. There were a lot of destruction, nineteen ships were destroyed, and two thousand three hundred and thirty five service man were killed. President D. Roosevelt proclaimed this date, “a date which will live in infamy.” As a consequence of the bombing, one hundred and twenty thousand people were imprisoned without committing any crime. Two-thirds of the Japanese were American citizens.
Hikoji Takeuchi was one of the few survivors of the Japanese Internment. He was in the Manzanar camp located in Inyo County, California, at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. Takeuchi was born on December 18, 1921 in Los Angeles. His parents were from Hiroshima, Japan and he had an older brother and sister who lived in Japan but, never met them. He also had a little sister who was six years younger than him, who was born in America.
Conor Stabile Miss Hartle 5/9/09 Period 6/8 Concentration Camps and Internment Camps In 1933 Hitler took over Germany, he became the leader of the country. When he started to exterminate Jews WWII started. As Hitler was occupied with the Jews we were occupied with the Japanese because they had bombed Pearl Harbor and we were taking the Japanese to internment camps to make sure none of them were spies for the Japanese. As we took the Japanese to the internment camps Hitler took the Jews to concentration camps or otherwise known as the death camps. There were many atrocities during WWII as found in concentration camps and internment camps.
On December, 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. As a result the Americans decided to intern those of Japanese descent on the west-coast of the United States. The Japanese were uprooted from their homes and were relocated to internment camps where they would live their lives. Japanese internment was a horrid act put upon those of Japanese ancestry in World War II, only using the common good as evidence to judge why the Japanese should be interned. The Civil liberties of the Japanese on the west-coast were more important than the common good because there was no valid evidence that the Japanese were planning an attack with their homeland.
Should have America dropped the atomic bomb? In this essay I am going to say whether America should have dropped the atomic bomb. The two main points is yes they should have or the shouldn’t have. The first main point was that USA were worried by Japanese expansion so which they banned all their trading going to Japan, which stopped 80% of all the oil supplied to Japan in the summer of 1941. After this outbreak from the Americans the Japanese hit back with a surprise attack on the Americans which allowed the conquest of South-East Asia and the Pacific before the Americans had even recovered from the surprise attack.
After a few minutes of debate we decided to change our view on WWII by declaring that we were taking sides against Japan in WWII. This was the turning point of WWII because the US had not been involved in the war until this point. Within a matter of days there were people enlisting for war and more being drafted? We also started shutting down small businesses to go and work in factories to produce war products. These products included ammunition and rifles.