Unit 7.7 - WW2
"Mustache man paints Europe"
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Methods & Strategies
- Total Wars Still used in WW2
Military Strategies
- Blitzkrieg (Lighting Warfare)
- Go as fast as you can to shock the enemy
- Use aerial and artillery support
- Fire Bombing
- Large scale bombings of urban centers
- Meant to destroy by starting fires
- Maginot Line
- Large bunkers extending deep under ground
- Had lots of guns and fortifications to deter attackers
- Succeeded at its objective, deter Germany and prevent large attacks
- Ultimately failed because Germany went around it.
- The NUKE ☢️ (Fat man & Little Boy)
- They gave scientists a whole lot of funds and took some German Engineers
- Used radioactive elements, Uranium-235 and plutonium-239.
- Capable of mass destruction with a single bomb, able to annihilate city
- Used on Japan to avoid full scale invasion of the mainland.
- So devastating the Japanese High Command had no idea what had happened
Ideologies
Democracy
- Relied on convincing general population
- Promises made to improve life after war
- Had to use propaganda to gain some support.
Communism
- Used Forced Labor
- Rapid Industrialization
- Large Scale Mass production for war (moved factories more inland to protect industry)
Fascism
- Had control over every aspect of their state
- Used force for economy and mobilization
Repression of freedom
- In the USA, Japanese people had been sent to camps due to fear of loyalty to Japanese Empire
- Jews discriminated in Europe due to Hitler blaming them for the loss of WW1.
- Anyone not Japanese or allied to Japan, having freedoms removed and sometimes experimented while under Japanese rule.