HS 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bataan Death March, Axis Powers
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Hs132: world war ii at home and abroad 1941-1945. U. s declares war on japan on december 8th. Joins allies: britain against axis powers, japan, germany, italy join forces. Hitler overtakes austria, chechloslavakia, poland, denmark, and norway. All sides without supplies: bataan death march- took u. s pow. The battle of midway: u. s victories with decoding messages with magic. Churchill and stalin (soviets) worked on how to attack germans. Churchill wanted north atlantic shipping and promote air attacks on germany. U. s and britain: went to africa to open ports. 1940: make arsenal for allies to win the war. Regular production industries now built tanks and weapons. Money went into research at universities for new technologies (radar) Poor and minorities forced to work in defense organizations. Execute order and fepc: prohibited it in war industries. After pearl harbor no labor strikes-niwb settle disputes. Women and children created hand made weapons from steel and fat.
