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Wwii Webquest
Name:_____________________________ Period:_____ Date:_______________ WWII WEBQUEST Directions: To begin, hold the CTRL button down and click on the links EUROPEAN THEATRE European Theatre – Battles Click here to complete the chart 1939-1942 Date Description / Summarization Invasion of Poland Battle of Britain Lend-Lease Act & Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor Battle of Stalingrad 1943-1945 Date Description / Summarization Operation Overlord (D-Day) Liberation of Paris Battle of the Bulge European Theatre – People & Events WWII Summary After WWII Summary Omar Bradley Dwight Eisenhower Charles De Gaulle Bernard Law Montgomery Erwin Rommel George S. Patton D-Day Did You Know – Click here • What does the D mean in D-Day? • Who was Andrew Jackson Higgans and what did he do? • How many men were involved in the D-Day landings? Letters from the Front – Click here • Read some of the letters from the soldiers. What are you reactions? PACIFIC THEATRE Advance of Japan – Click here • When does Japan invade China? French Indochina? • What’s happening in Europe at this time? Pacific Theatre – Battles Click here to complete the chart Date Strategic Importance Outcome Casualties Saipan Battle of Leyte Gulf Philippines Campaign Iwo Jima Okinawa Pacific Theatre – People BRIEF Background Info WWII Summary Emperor Hirohito General Douglas MacArthur Admiral Chester Nimitz Bataan Death March What was the Bataan Death March? Click here How were POWs prepared for life in the camp? Click here for this & all other questions What did POWs do to keep their sanity while in the camp? Why was life horrible? Click on the link on the webpage Who was Henry Mucci? Why was Mucci so tough What was his unit training during training? to do? Rescuers of Bataan Click here Pacific Theatre – Events Answer or Summarize the Following: Describe the Context: Summarize her Experience: Koyu Shiroma and the Battle of Saipan Describe the Strategic Importance: What was Combat Like? Harry George and the Strategic Importance of Iwo Jima Summarize Destined to Die: What Eventually Happened to Mr. -
Founding of the Nevada Wing Civil Air Patrol
Founding of the Nevada Wing Civil Air Patrol Col William E. Aceves II Nevada Wing Historian 25 February 2021 Gill Robb Wilson, described in Blazich’s recent book on the Civil Air Patrol as the ‘intellectual founder’ of the organization, started the ball rolling on the creation of the Civil Air Patrol in 1939. He realized that aviation in the United States would be severely curtailed, if not outright banned, within the country should it be dragged into the wars that were being fought on the sides of the oceans that flanked the U.S. mainland. He sought out other similarly minded individuals and they studied what could be done to utilize civilian general aviation as a very useful tool to support whatever national effort for the upcoming involvement in the two-ocean war would look like. By 1941 some individual states were attempting to do the same within their own boarders, but Wilson, et al, were thinking along the lines of a national organization. They studied with great interest the individual state aviation plans. In Ohio, the Civilian Air Reserve (CAR) had been formed in 1939, and by 1941 other CAR units had been formed in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. These groups, with a military organizational structure, would serve their individual states and remain distant from the military. It was clear that civilian pilots wanted to contribute their skills and their machines to a worthy cause. The Federal government also realized that organizing the civilian side of the house was a necessary priority, and President Roosevelt began creating several agencies and offices to study what was needed to prepare the civilian population for war: The Office of Emergency Management, Council on National Defense, National Defense Advisory Commission, and others, came into existence. -
Battle of Okinawa 1 Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa 1 Battle of Okinawa Battle of Okinawa Part of World War II, the Pacific War A U.S. Marine from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines on Wana Ridge provides covering fire with his Thompson submachine gun, 18 May 1945. Date 1 April – 22 June 1945 Location Okinawa, Japan [1] [1] 26°30′N 128°00′E Coordinates: 26°30′N 128°00′E Result Allied victory, Okinawa occupied by U.S. until 1972 Belligerents United States Empire of Japan United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand Commanders and leaders Simon B. Buckner, Jr. † Mitsuru Ushijima † Roy Geiger Isamu Chō † Joseph Stilwell Minoru Ota † Chester W. Nimitz Keizō Komura Raymond A. Spruance Sir Bernard Rawlings Philip Vian Bruce Fraser Strength 183,000 (initial assault force only) ~120,000, including 40,000 impressed Okinawans Casualties and losses More than 12,000 killed More than 110,000 killed More than 38,000 wounded More than 7,000 captured 40,000–150,000 civilians killed The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned Battle of Okinawa 2 invasion of Japanese mainland (coded Operation Downfall). Four divisions of the U.S. -
America's Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan Joseph H
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Master's Theses Graduate School 2007 America's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan Joseph H. Paulin Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Paulin, Joseph H., "America's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan" (2007). LSU Master's Theses. 3079. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/3079 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Master's Theses by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AMERICA’S DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Arts in The Inter-Departmental Program in Liberal Arts By Joseph H. Paulin B.A., Kent State University, 1994 May 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT……………………………………………………...………………...…….iii CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………...………………….1 CHAPTER 2. JAPANESE RESISTANCE………………………………..…………...…5 CHAPTER 3. AMERICA’S OPTIONS IN DEFEATING THE JAPANESE EMPIRE...18 CHAPTER 4. THE DEBATE……………………………………………………………38 CHAPTER 5. THE DECISION………………………………………………………….49 CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………..64 REFERENCES.………………………………………………………………………….68 VITA……………………………………………………………………………………..70 ii ABSTRACT During the time President Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb against Japan, the United States was preparing to invade the Japanese homeland. The brutality and the suicidal defenses of the Japanese military had shown American planners that there was plenty of fight left in a supposedly defeated enemy. -
Ship Covers Relating to the Iran/Iraq Tanker War
THE IRAN/IRAQ TANKER WAR AND RENAMED TANKERS ~ Lawrence Brennan, (US Navy Ret.) SHIP COVERS RELATING TO THE IRAN/IRAQ TANKER WAR & REFLAGGED KUWAITI TANKERS, 1987-881 “The Kuwaiti fleet reads like a road map of southern New Jersey” By Captain Lawrence B. Brennan, U.S. Navy Retired2 Thirty years ago there was a New Jersey connection to the long-lasting Iran-Iraq War. That eight years of conflict was one of the longest international two-state wars of the 20th century, beginning in September 1980 and effectively concluding in a truce in August 1988. The primary and bloody land war between Iran and Iraq began during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. The Shah had left Iran and that year the USSR invaded Afghanistan. The conflict expanded to sea and involved many neutral nations whose shipping came under attack by the combatants. The parties’ intent was to damage their opponents’ oil exports and revenues and decrease world supplies. Some suggested that Iran and Iraq wanted to draw other states into the conflict. An Iranian source explained the origin of the conflict at sea. The tanker war seemed likely to precipitate a major international incident for two reasons. First, some 70 percent of Japanese, 50 percent of West European, and 7 percent of American oil imports came from the Persian Gulf in the early 1980s. Second, the assault on tankers involved neutral shipping as well as ships of the belligerent states.3 The relatively obscure first phase began in 1981, and the well-publicized second phase began in 1984. New Jersey, half a world away from the Persian (Arabian) gulf, became involved when the United States agreed to escort Kuwait tankers in an effort to support a friendly nation and keep the international waters open. -
US Navy Program Guide 2012
U.S. NAVY PROGRAM GUIDE 2012 U.S. NAVY PROGRAM GUIDE 2012 FOREWORD The U.S. Navy is the world’s preeminent cal change continues in the Arab world. Nations like Iran maritime force. Our fleet operates forward every day, and North Korea continue to pursue nuclear capabilities, providing America offshore options to deter conflict and while rising powers are rapidly modernizing their militar- advance our national interests in an era of uncertainty. ies and investing in capabilities to deny freedom of action As it has for more than 200 years, our Navy remains ready on the sea, in the air and in cyberspace. To ensure we are for today’s challenges. Our fleet continues to deliver cred- prepared to meet our missions, I will continue to focus on ible capability for deterrence, sea control, and power pro- my three main priorities: 1) Remain ready to meet current jection to prevent and contain conflict and to fight and challenges, today; 2) Build a relevant and capable future win our nation’s wars. We protect the interconnected sys- force; and 3) Enable and support our Sailors, Navy Civil- tems of trade, information, and security that enable our ians, and their Families. Most importantly, we will ensure nation’s economic prosperity while ensuring operational we do not create a “hollow force” unable to do the mission access for the Joint force to the maritime domain and the due to shortfalls in maintenance, personnel, or training. littorals. These are fiscally challenging times. We will pursue these Our Navy is integral to combat, counter-terrorism, and priorities effectively and efficiently, innovating to maxi- crisis response. -
WARFARE DEVELOPMENT for Major Joint Operations and Collective Defence
KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES OF WAR MUST BE TEMPERED BY A SENSE OF CHANGE, AND APPLIED WITH A FLEXIBILITY OF MIND. Michael Howard The Causes of Wars and Other Essays 10 The Three Swords Magazine 33/2018 ON THE COVER WARFARE DEVELOPMENT FOR MajOR JOINT OpERatIONS AND COllECTIVE DEFENCE by COLONEL NEIL WRIGHT British Army Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) Exercises, Training and Innovation Directorate, Joint Warfare Centre The Joint Warfare Centre is far from simply being a training centre and the importance of our role in Warfare Development is, arguably, greater than ever as we refocus NATO's agenda for experimentation, interoperability and doctrine development against Collective Defence and Article 5 scenarios. ►►► The Three Swords Magazine 33/2018 11 JOINT WARFARE DEVELOPMENT ABOVE: A modified screenshot from JAVELIN (JTLS) showing red and blue forces. A Computer-Assisted Exercise (CAX) is a type of synthetic exercise where forces are generated, moved and managed in a simulated joint environment. CAX enables NATO Transformation to challenge and enhance capabilities, increase interoperability, save resources and reduce risk. RIGHT: NATO Space-based early warning capability. The early detection is communicated to Ballistic Missile Defence Command Centres within a minute or two of the missile launch. Integration of Space in exercises started in 2016 with TRIDENT JUNCTURE. Graphics by NATO E LIVE IN in- more public roles, not to mention highligh ting 2017 (hereafter abbreviated to JAVELIN) in the teresting times, contentious normative, ethical and legal con- autumn of last year, a vast Major Joint O pera- perhaps the most siderations. So, these are indeed interesting tion3 Command Post Exercise, involving, for consequential for times calling for broad-minded approaches to the first time in more than two decades, all European security Warfare Deve lopment. -
Joint and Combined Warfare in the Twenty-First Century
Joint and Combined Warfare in the Twenty-first Century Williamson Murray Introduction It is indeed a great honor to present a paper on the future of Joint and Combined operations in the twenty-first century before such a distinguished audience. To do so, this paper will begin with an examination of the historical antecedents of these two forms of warfare up to the present; and end with thoughts about the role of joint and combined operations in the twenty-first century. To do so, we will begin by discussing the fundamental, unchanging nature of war to indicate why a purely technological, mechanistic conception of war would destroy the very joint capabilities on which military forces from the First World must depend in the coming century. Let me begin then with some thoughts on the political nature of war. As the Greek historian Thucydides, the greatest of all strategic and military historians, commented at the end of the fifth century B.C.: “It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and which (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future.”1 Men have fought wars for enumerable reasons, but states fight wars for political reaso 276ns.2 Or as Clausewitz put it so simply: “it is clear, consequently, that war is not a mere act of policy, but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means.”3 “War 1 Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Rex Warner (New York, reprinted 1986), p. -
Vice Admiral Dixon R. Smith Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Readiness and Logistics
Vice Admiral Dixon R. Smith Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Readiness and Logistics Vice Adm. Dixon Smith is a native of Green Farms, Connecticut, and entered the Naval Academy Preparatory School in 1978. After receiving his commission from the United States Naval Academy in 1983, he was designated a surface warfare officer in 1985. Smith holds a master’s degree in business from Webster University and is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Smith’s first sea tour was aboard USS Miller (FF 1091), serving as first lieutenant and damage control assistant. Follow-on service at sea included operations officer aboard USS Jarrett (FFG 33), participating in Operation Desert Storm; operations officer aboard USS Gridley (CG 21), participating in the establishment of Operation Southern Watch over Southern Iraq; and executive officer aboard USS Antietam (CG 54). Assignments ashore include duty at Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, Rhode Island, as seamanship instructor and service as aide to the naval inspector general, Washington, D.C. Duties in Naples, Italy, as deputy executive assistant to Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe/Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe, included service in support of the Joint Forces Commander, Operation Allied Force and Commander, Joint Task Force Noble Anvil during NATO’s operations in Kosovo. Additionally, he served a tour at the United States Naval Academy as 4th Battalion officer and Plebe Summer officer in charge. He has commanded USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), Naval Base San Diego, Navy Region Hawaii, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, Navy Region Southwest, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic and Navy Installations Command. -
JP 0-2, "Unified Action Armed Forces (UNAAF)"
Joint Publication 0-2 Unified Action Armed Forces (UNAAF) 10 July 2001 The enduring theme, “joint warfare is team warfare,” is an attitude based on the foundation of joint doctrine that is universally understood and practiced. This team approach ensures the most effective employment of US forces for joint warfare. If we are to continue to improve the structure of US forces for joint warfare, everyone must be involved. Capstone publications Joint Warfare of the Armed Forces of the United States and this publication, Unified Action Armed Forces (UNAAF), provide the foundation for all the joint publications. Unified Action Armed Forces (UNAAF) provides the basic doctrine and policy governing the unified direction of forces and discusses the functions of the Department of Defense and its major components. This revision represents the evolution in US warfighting guidance since the last edition, serves as the policy document for all command relationships and other authorities directed by law, and clarifies these relationships. This publication also sets forth the concepts, relationships, and processes necessary for unified action of joint, interagency, and multinational operations and specifies fundamental principles and concepts for joint operations. The nature of modern warfare demands that we fight as a team. Unified action resulting from clear command relationships and unity of effort is crucial to making this possible. Commanders must ensure the widest distribution and application of this and other supporting joint publications in order to enable success in joint force employment. HENRY H. SHELTON Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff PREFACE 1. Scope publication to restrict the authority of the JFC from organizing the force and executing the The principles set forth in this publication mission in a manner the JFC deems most will be applied to accomplish congressional appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the intent expressed in the National Security Act accomplishment of the overall mission. -
Joint Training for Night Air Warfare /By Brian W
THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McLean, Brian W. Joint training for night air warfare /by Brian W. McLean. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Close air support-Study and teaching-United States. 2. Night fighting (Military science)--Study and teaching-United States. I. Title. UG703.M38 1992 358.4' 142'07073-dc20 92-27734 CIP DISCLAIIAER This publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interest of academic freedom and the advancement of national defense-related concepts. The views expressed in this publication are those ofthe author and donot reflecttheofficial policy or position of the Department ofDefense or the United States government. This publication has been reviewed by security and policy review authorities and is cleared for public release. For Sale by the Superintendent of Documents US GovernmentPrinting Office Washington, DC20402 ii Contents Chapter Page DISCLAIMER . ii FOREWORD . vii ABOUT THE AUTHOR . ix PREFACE . xi INTRODUCTION . xv Notes . xvii 1 HISTORY AND BACKGROUND . 1 Joint Operations . 1 Night Operations . 5 Summary . 14 Notes . 15 2 DOING IT IN THE DARKTHE CHALLENGE . 17 Operation Tae Kwon Do . 19 Mission Planning . 22 Offensive Counterair . 23 Defensive Counterair . 34 On-Call Close Air Support . 35 Mission Execution . 37 Offensive Counterair . 38 Defensive Counterair . 47 On-Call Close Air Support . 48 Mission Feasibility . 51 Summary . 52 Notes . 53 iii Chapter Page PHOTO SECTION . 55 3 CURRENT TRAINING PROGRAMS . 61 Requirements for Realistic Training . 62 Red Flag . 64 Naval Strike Warfare Center . 71 National Training Center . 72 Twehtynine Palms . 74 Cope Thunder . 75 Team Spirit . -
Joint Doctrine Command and Control Warfare (C2W)
Joint Pub 3-13.1 Joint Doctrine for Command and Control Warfare (C2W) 7 February 1996 PREFACE 1. Scope 2. Purpose a. This publication concentrates on This publication has been prepared under command and control warfare (C2W) and is the direction of the Chairman of the Joint not intended to present comprehensive Chiefs of Staff. It sets forth doctrine to govern doctrine for the broader concept of the joint activities and performance of the information warfare (IW). It introduces and Armed Forces of the United States in joint defines IW in general terms with the objective operations and provides the doctrinal basis for of clarifying its overarching relationship to US military involvement in multinational and C2W. The scope of C2W is defined in the interagency operations. It provides military Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance for the exercise of authority by Memorandum of Policy 30, but the full combatant commanders and other joint force dimensions of IW policy and its commanders and prescribes doctrine for joint implementation are still emerging. operations and training. It provides military guidance for use by the Armed Forces in b. This publication provides guidelines for preparing their appropriate plans. It is not the integrating C2W into joint military operations intent of this publication to restrict the and exercises by addressing the following authority of the joint force commander (JFC) doctrinal areas: from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner the JFC deems most • C2W, a warfighting application of IW. appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall mission.