US in WW2

The US government knew the Japanese were going to attack the US and assume that the attack would take place at Pearl Harbor. The US Navy had been practicing for the attack for 20 + years. The surprise of the attack included the time of the attack (a Sunday morning when most US sailors were on leave or hung over from drinking the night before), the Japanese new low angle torpedo (US Navy didn't know Japan had it and assumed that battleship were safe in the harbor).

No, nothing even close to the rationing of WWII. America in the 1960s/70s was a highly sophisticated and technologically advanced society...another words every body had a car (and plenty of gasoline too! (at 19 cents a gallon) The US was a on a "cold war" footing, with arms and ammunition makers putting out billions of rounds (cartridges) monthly/annually. Since the cold war ended in 1990, nearly 2/3rds of those ammunition makers have closed shop.

Except for the military draft and coffins landing at airports, you'd never have known about Vietnam.

The President is the Commander-in-Chief and utlimate head of the armed forces of the United States.

The cutting off of oil supplies caused the Japanese to look elsewhere. To avoid the US Warships from interferring with that searching for "elsewheres", they had to be eliminated, the attack on Pearl.

On June 6, 1944, a united force of British, American, Canadian and others made the assault on the French Coast. At this time in the war, the German war machine had all but controlled the entire continent in Europe. The Allies knew that the only chance they had at actually winning the war was to gain a foothold somewhere in Europe. In order to do this, It had to be an area that could be easily defended from both German land forces, and the terrifyingly powerful German U-Boat fleet. Naval Forces knew that any area that was to be supplied needed to be well guarded, as the U-Boats could, and would destroy any supply ships at open sea, and they knew that it was vital to protect them as they neared the coast, as it was extremely difficult to escape a U-Boat attack when cornered against land. Thus, an area of the French Coast was designated as the beach head, and with its close proximity to the British Coast, it was an ideal option. The narrow stretch of ocean between England and fortress Europe meant that U-Boats would have to enter a "lion's den" of naval defensive forces to even get a chance to attack supply ships. Also, several small towns connected by a major roadway would aid in the defense of the beachhead.

Because they made up 1/3 of a multi-racial society, irrational fear fueled their prejudices which lead to the evacuation and interment of the Japanese-American communities.

Preexisting conditions started decades before the war. When Orientals started emigrating to Hawaii and the West Coast, which included people coming from China, Korea, the Philippine, and Japan, prejudices induced by fear permeated in American society. Ignorance of cultural differences and fears of taking jobs from the American population ignited violent outbreaks from the labor force as well as the American Legion. In 1907, the Gentlemen's Agreement between Japan and the US prevented further immigration for men but allowed wives to immigrate. However, in 1924, the Immigration Act banned ALL Orientals from immigrating to the US.

When the Japanese military invaded China in 1937, the American public again began to feel uneasy having a population of about 120,000 people of Japanese origin living on the West Coast. And when Pearl Harbor ensued, it solidified people's fears and prejudices. Immediately after the news of Pearl Harbor, men without citizenship were hauled off by the FBI and sent to mock trails of espionage. Bank accounts were frozen for their families. They were required to turn in all items that were considered a danger to society such as short wave radios, guns, knives, and binoculars. A curfew was imposed. The Chinese had to wear a tag that stated they were NOT Japanese. Rumors plagued the media which insinuated espionage up and down the coast line.

Then on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed executive Order 9066 which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington. Thus the evacuation began and placed all people who had Japanese blood into internment camps, including those with only one sixteenth.

World War II in Europe is generally agreed to have begun when Nazi tanks rolled into Poland on September 1, 1939. It would be another 27 months before the US entered the war. On September 3, 1939, the US Army got a new commanding general when George C. Marshall was sworn in as the new Chief of Staff. Marshall inherited an army that was the 21st largest in the world, right behind Bulgaria. The US Army was primed and equipped to refight WWI, and Marshall had a huge task to expand and modernize, and completely reorganize the US Army. There were less than 250,000 officers and men when Marshall began his work. In 1940, Congress passed the first peacetime draft in American history, to draft one million men into the Army to serve for one year. This draft legislation came up for renewal the next year, in August 1941, and passed Congress by the margin of a single vote. The million men drafted in 1940 were not let out after a year, as they had been promised, and were generally pretty aggravated about it. By December 1941, when the US was in the war, the US Army still numbered less than two million, a smaller force by far than that which Hitler had sent against the Russians in the summer of 1941. But, by the end of the war, under Marshall's guidance, the US Army had expanded to over eight million men and was victorious around the globe. Marshall was also in charge of the Air Force, which was still the US Army Air Force until 1947, so he commanded another three million men there.

At state level, it would be the State Governor, who serves as Commander in Chief for their state's respective military department, or whichever department the National Guard and State Guard/State Defence Force (if their state has one) is relegated under.

Very much. The Germans didn't know where the Allies would land, but they knew there would be one and when they did it was bloody and fierce. If you saw the movie D Day you get a "feeling" for what the men who landed on Normandy beach faced. It was something that is hard to talk about and describe for the veterans of that day.

Congress leaders spent most of the time of the second world war in the prision on account of their mass civil disobedience plans against India's declaration the British India declared to take part in the second war to save the English soldier and to send the Indian Army in the place. Taking advantage of such a situation, congress leader opposed the decision , and for this reason Government decision of the government , they started civil disobedience movement against Indian Government decision, and for this reason government of India imprisoned significant leader of Indian national congress

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TheWar Production Boardwas an agency of theUnited Statesgovernment, which supervised production for war purposes duringWorld War II.

Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.

They must have been political would seem that we are to think that the Japanese thought that they could beat the Americans in a war. Perhaps the Germans who were their ally gave them some sort of guarantee fro attacking the US fleet as they did declare war on the US directly after the Attack. I guess the real reason for this will probably never be known as there was no way that the Japs were stupid enough to think that they could beat the Americans in a war.

Assuming "we" is the US, the war started on December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan) with the attack on Pearl Harbor and ended with the Emperor Hirohito's radio address that Japan accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration on August 14, 1945 (August 15 in Japan). There were scattered actions after the announcement because it took a while for the news to be transmitted to all the forces in the field on both sides, in addition, some barbaric Japanese individually or as units committed atrocities such as the murder of prisoners and civilians upon learning of the surrender.

The surrender was signed at Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.

In late December 1941 Nimitz took over as Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC). This was the commander of the US Navy (and its Marine Corps). He held this position for the rest of the war, with his headquarters in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Nimitz was also the Commander of the Central Pacific Theater of Operations. His command was limited to the "Central Pacific", because US Army General Douglas MacArthur had escaped the Philippines and was in Australia. MacArthur had such prestige, as former commander of the US Army for four years in the thirties, that it was necessary to carve out a theater command for him, so MacArthur commanded the Southwest Pacific Theater of Operations, and more or less cooperated and coordinated operations with Nimitz in the Central Pacific.

IN WWI Nimitz was executive officer of the USS Maumee, a tanker, when the US entered the war. Nimitz became an aide to Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet on August 10, 1917. He was based at the Navy Base in Norfolk, Virginia. On February 6, 1918 Nimitz became Chief of Staff for Robinson of the Atlantic submarine Force. On September 16, 1918 Nimitz was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, in Washington DC. In the office of the CNO Nimitz became Senior Member, Board of Submarine Design, on October 25, 1918.

The USS Indianapolis carried the trigger and radioactive core of the atomic bomb later dropped on Hiroshima (the Little Boy device). The Indy is also well known for the circumstances of its sinking, on the return voyage from dropping off the bomb components. The Indianapolis was torpedoed on 29 July, and sank quickly with the second greatest overall loss of life for any single US Navy ship sinking -- approximately 800 men in total. The Indianapolis disaster is also known for the huge number of shark related deaths as a large compliment of the crew remained alfoat in excellent survival conditions for about 3 days. It turns out that the Indianpolis' cargo had been so secret, there was no record conveyed to its destination, and thus the ship was not reported as overdue, and no rescue was started until the remaining crew were spotted on August 2 by a passing patrol plane. Shark deaths were roughly 500 souls.

some 200,000 in total died but 20,000 died in Stalingrad and some 30,000 got killed by Yugoslavian soldiers. but the rest got killed in the battle of Romania when the soviets cut thew the Romania killing thousands to get to Yugoslavia. but im not sure if im right i know alot about ww2 but i don't know much about the Romanians during world war 2

Yes: The Torch landings were opposed by the French to varying degrees of belligerance. I accept the British actions at Oran, Dakar & elsewhere gave the French cause for concern. But it must have been obvious, and it wasn't, that the US Forces, as well as the British indeed, were going, eventually, free France from Nazi occupation. As an English man I cannot understand the position of the French in North Africa in WW2. For the French to be defiant in their stance against Allies I find reprehensible in the extreme.

The English did not declare war on Germany, Great Britaindeclared war on Germany because Germany had invaded other European countries with which Great Britain had a mutual defense agreement.

MS St. Louis.

The ship sailed transatlantic routes, from Hamburg to New York, but during the Great Depression turned to cruising to make revenue. The ship is most notable for a single voyage in 1939, which was dramatised in the 1976 motion picture Voyage of the Damned.

The German propaganda ministry and the Nazi party conceived of a propaganda exercise which would demonstrate that Germany was not alone in its territorial, exclusionary hostility towards Jews as a permanent minority within the political economy of their state. The German propagandists wanted to demonstrate that the "civilized" world agreed with their assertion that Jews constituted a continuing "hidden-hand" of influence on national and economic affairs. They wanted to demonstrate that no other Western country or people would receive Jews as refugees. Firstly it would appear that the Nazis were allowing the Jewish refugees a new life in Havana

The Nazis were aware of rising western antisemitism and correctly surmised that these Jews, traveling on tourist visas (not immigrant visas, which none of the potential host countries would likely have issued to them), would not be able to visit Cuba as tourists when in fact they were political/social refugees; who, for whatever reason, had been forcibly removed from Germany, their home country. Furthermore, having been refused entry into Cuba and other Atlantic nations, the plight of the refugees would force the world to admit that there was, as the Nazis characterized it, a "Jewish problem" that Germany, for all to see, was trying to resolve "humanely."

With not one of the countries of the Northern Atlantic basin allowing the Jewish passengers entry, those countries would be in no position in the future to morally object when Germany dealt with its problem Jewish population. The St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg into the Atlantic Ocean in May 1939 carrying one non-Jewish and 936 (mainly German) Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution just before World War II. However, on the ship's arrival in Cuba, the passengers were refused either tourist entry (which in theory was valid for their tourist visas) or political asylum (which was not the stated purpose for which the tourist visas had been issued) by the Cuban government under Federico Laredo Brú. This prompted a near mutiny. Two people attempted suicide and dozens more threatened to do the same. However, 29 of the refugees were able to disembark at Havana.

On 4 June 1939, the St. Louis was also refused permission to unload on orders of President Roosevelt as the ship waited in the Caribbean Sea between Florida and Cuba. Initially, Roosevelt showed limited willingness to take in some of those on board despite the Immigration Act of 1924, but vehement opposition came from Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, and from Southern Democrats-some of whom went so far as to threaten to withhold their support of Roosevelt in the 1940 Presidential election if this occurred.

The St. Louis then tried to enter Canada but was denied as well.

The ship sailed for Europe, first stopping in the United Kingdom, where 288 of the passengers disembarked and were thus spared from the Holocaust. The remaining 619 passengers disembarked at Antwerp; 224 were accepted into France, 214 into Belgium and 181 into the Netherlands, safe from Hitler's persecution until the German invasions of these countries.[5][6]

The ship without the passengers eventually sailed back to Hamburg, Germany. By using the survival rates for Jews in these countries, Thomas and Morgan-Witts estimated that 180 of the St. Louis refugees in France, along with 152 of those in Belgium and 60 of those in Holland survived the Holocaust, giving a total of 709 estimated survivors and 227 killed of the original 936 Jewish refugees.

Later, more detailed research by Scott Miller and Sarah Ogilvie of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has given a slightly higher total of deaths:

Of the 620 St. Louis passengers who returned to continental Europe, we determined that eighty-seven were able to emigrate before Germany invaded western Europe on May 10, 1940. Two hundred and fifty-four passengers in Belgium, France and the Netherlands after that date died during the Holocaust. Most of these people were murdered in the killing centers of Auschwitz and Sóbibor; the rest died in internment camps, in hiding or attempting to evade the Nazis. Three hundred sixty-five of the 620 passengers who returned to continental Europe survived the war.

Although the principles of long range attack using aircraft carriers was well known in American military circles, the nation was still stunned by the Japanese. The American's had heard the warnings, but did not think the Japanese could successfully pull off such a daring and secretive attack with enough force to sink a major fleet. They were wrong. The American reaction was near panic. There was widespread fear that the Japanese were going to invade California, even though their offensive abilities are now known to have been stretched just reaching Hawaii. The American reaction was to imprison all Japanese-Americans, an illegal move that still draws criticism. Fears of Japanese bombing reached as far as Kansas. Once the initial confusion and panic settled, the country went quickly about the business of building a giant war machine with which to get 'pay back' on the Japanese. Huge numbers of men volunteered for duty, but not enough for the demands of the war, thus many millions had to be drafted. Industrial plants all over the country that had been idled by the depression were suddenly humming due to military contracts. America was lucky to have two of the great military minds of the era with which to battle the Japanese - MacArthur and Nimitz. These two devised a plan that successfully destroyed the Japanese navy, broke their defensive perimeter, and ultimately cause the entire Japanese Empire to collapse.