Question | Answer |
Battle of the North Atlantic | subs, warships, etc.
Germans were sinking a bunch of our ships up to 1942; however, this was reversed in 1943-1945.
Convey System: protect merchant ships |
Battle of the Bulge | Dec 16 '45- Jan 25 '46
Winter in Ardennes
worst winter in decades & everything was perfectly poised for the Nazis to attack US
Bastogne
6 major roads center here
British attacked for days but US stands
George Patton: troops change from E to N |
Europe First Command | ? |
Fire Bombing | -created fire storms, didn't just blow up.
-even people in bunkers died, bc the fire would pull out all oxygen and people would suffocate. |
Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Nagasaki(Aug. 6, 1945)- we bombed bc:
-to end war quickly
-save Japanese & US lives
-we invested millions in these bombs
-RACE
-to stop Russians by showin them we have nuclear weapons |
Island Hopping (Nimitz) | -1 of the 2 strategies to get Japan.
-this strategy was to take over little islands that were on the way to Japan.
- hop from island to island |
Iwo Jima | -it took 6 weeks to take.
-we had to kill EVERY Japanese
only 1,000 died, but the rest were prisoned.
-the costliest battle in the history of the Marine Corps |
Midway | (June 1942) turning point
-Japanese invade w/ ships, aircraft, & ?
- we destroyed 4 out of 5 carriers, they destroyed 1 out of our 3. |
Normandy Invasion (D-Day) | *June 1944*
-Eisenhower's Failure Speech- he took the blame for the failure to gain a foothold in the Cherbourg-Havre area.
-Omaha Beach: moving inland w/in a day |
North Africa | -Dwight Eisenhower??
-German embarrass US, but we won. |
Okinawa | (23 mi long)
-take 70,000 of 77,000 defenders
-Kamikaze-one way suicide aircraft carrier
-used these to attack Americans |
Pearl Harbor | *Dec 7, 1941*
A. Japanese spent months traveling
B. Good News:
-aircraft carriers were not here
-oil reserves weren't destroyed |
Sicily & Italian Campaign | ? |
Strategic Bombing | A. PRECISION DAYLIGHT BOMBING: whole bunch of air crafts would bomb a precise area
B. Air loses:
-1943, 2/3 airmen dont complete their 2nd tour
-85,000 airmen lost
C. Dehousin(1944): bombin whole cities;even civilians, not just military
D. fireb |