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World War 2 Notes 4/4/13
10th Grade Notes
1. Rape of Nanking - December 13, 1937) Japanese invaded China and killed 250,000 to 300,000 people and raped roughly 20,000 women.
2. Stalin - Hitler Pact 1939 (The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact) - On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
3. Allied Powers - The Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945)
- STARTED WITH - start of the war (1 September 1939) consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom
- After 1941, the leaders of the British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America known as the "Big Three", held leadership of the Allied powers
4. Winston Churchill - leader of England (United Kingdom) after Neville Chamberlain was fired because appeasement did not work.
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - leader of the United States before and during World War 2.
- He knew that America would have to enter World War 2 even when isolationists (people who do not want to go to war) were trying to keep America out.
6. Emperor Hirohito - was the Emperor of Japan before and during World War 2. Seen as person responsible for atrocities like the Rape of Nanking, although people debate this. He also surrendered to the United States at the end of the war.
7. Douglas MacArthur - American general that played an important role in the war of the Pacific during World War 2.
8. Dwight Eisenhower - served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Letter from the Front
France, July 22, 1944
Darling:
...Yesterday I had to visit all the units again, to get statements for my report. The regiment is in contact with the enemy, so such trips always have their skin-prickling moments. I got back pretty tired about 7 o'clock, just in time to get a phone call from the CO of one of Sirrine's battalions, also in the line, requesting me to come up to discuss personal problems of his body-guard, a fine young fellow who had simultaneously received word that his sister, an army nurse, and a brother, a flyer, had both been killed in the So. Pacific, and that his remaining brother had been critically wounded with another division here in France.
While up there, I hit the favorite hours for Jerry's activities, and, frankly, pretty nearly had the pants scared off me, with samples of shelling, mortar-fire, and strafing. I got back at midnight, having driven the jeep myself all day (my driver being on guard) slipping and slewing through mud axle deep whenever I got off the surfaced roads, which was frequently. I hate to admit it, but after a day like that, I feel my years. Yeah, man! War is a young man's game!...
News on 90th has been released. Maybe you know something now of what the boys have gone through: constant contact with the enemy since D-Day. They've taken their losses, too. Somebody says "Old Bill got it today." "No!" you say. "Son-of-a-bitch!" And you go on about your business, with a little more emptiness inside, a little more tiredness, a little more hatred of everything concerning war.
There is a certain cemetery where some of my closest friends in the division lie. I saw it grow -- shattered bodies lying there waiting for graves to be dug. Now it is filled. The graves are neat and trim, each with its cross. Occasionally I visit it when passing by. Always there are flowers on the graves: Sometimes a potted geranium has been newly brought in; sometimes there is a handful of daisies. The French people, especially the children, seem to have charged themselves with this little attention. Our bombers are roaring overhead just now, in the hazy afterglow of sunset. In a few seconds I'll hear the crunch of bombs -- a good-night kiss for the Nazis. There they go!
The war news is good; but we're fighting over optimism. I suppose people at home are elated; the boys up front are still in their fox-holes.
I'll try to write at least a note every day or so. Take care of yourself. I'm fine.
Love,
John
World War 2 Notes 1
1. Rape of Nanking - December 13, 1937) Japanese invaded China and killed 250,000 to 300,000 people and raped roughly 20,000 women.
2. Stalin - Hitler Pact 1939 (The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact) - On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
3. Allied Powers - The Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945)
- STARTED WITH - start of the war (1 September 1939) consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom
- After 1941, the leaders of the British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America known as the "Big Three", held leadership of the Allied powers
4. Winston Churchill - leader of England (United Kingdom) after Neville Chamberlain was fired because appeasement did not work.
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - leader of the United States before and during World War 2.
- He knew that America would have to enter World War 2 even when isolationists (people who do not want to go to war) were trying to keep America out.
6. Emperor Hirohito - was the Emperor of Japan before and during World War 2. Seen as person responsible for atrocities like the Rape of Nanking, although people debate this. He also surrendered to the United States at the end of the war.
7. Douglas MacArthur - American general that played an important role in the war of the Pacific during World War 2.
8. Dwight Eisenhower - served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
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