The American Home Front
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Patton
The War by Ken Burns
Saving Private Ryan
Thin Red Line
The Longest Day
Great Escape
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pearl Harbor
Flags of Our Fathers
Schindler’s List
The Pacific
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Band of Brothers
Stalag 17
Downfall (German)
Dirty Dozen
Life is Beautiful (Italian)
The Pianist
Windtalkers
The Valkyrie
Enemy at the Gates
Defiance
Casablanca
Sound of Music
Red Tails (on Tuskegee Air Corps)
Sarah’s Key
The Best Years of Our Lives
Devil’s Arthmetic
Fat Man and Little Boy
Inglorious B……
Great Dictator
Das Boot
Dresden
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwhP5b4tD6g
Totalitarianism
Yalta Conference
Appeasement
V E Day
Blitzkrieg
V J Day
Third Reich
United Nations
Lend Lease
Office of War Information
Pearl Harbor
Executive Order 9066
Bataan Death March
Tuskegee Airmen-pilots
Rationing
Flying Tigers-pilots
D Day
Navajo Code Talkers
Midway
FDR and Truman
Hiroshima
Rosie the Riveter
Mobilization
G I Bill-helped Veterans
1939-1945
Celebrated third Monday
in January
Commemorates his
birthday on January 15
Became a national
holiday in 1983 amidst
controversy
Designated as a day of
service
Designated as a day to
remember the struggle
for Civil Rights
The Holocaust,
Japanese Internment,
Manhattan Project
STAAR Objectives
Meetings
Anti-Semitism—history
Diaspora after Roman occupation of Israel and Judah
Middle Ages—laws against Jews
“Scapegoats” in literature and history
Ghettos—walled communities
More diasporas from Spain (1492) and Russia (1917)
Pogroms
19th century—Jewish immigration into Germany
Mein Kampf published, 1927
Hitler became chancellor, 1933
Nuremberg Laws passed and enforced, 1935
Exodus of many German Jews
Krystallnacht, 1938
Confinement to walled ghettos
Mobilization to concentration camps
Labor and eventual elimination
Ignorance of facts
The ship, The St. Louis
Zyclon B
Discovery of camps by Americans and Russians
Eisenhower’s work
Work of survivors
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust
/36quest1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-
review/the-holocaust-just-got-moreshocking.html?_r=1&
110,000 interned
Single largest forced movement in American history
All Civil Rights denied
Moved to holding areas and then camps surrounded
by barbed wire
Issei—Japanese immigrants
Nisei—next generation—Japanese American children
of immigrants
Sansei—third generation (and subsequent) Japanese-
Americans
“One, Two, Three”
Landmark Supreme Court Case challenging
internment
Decision determined that Japanese-Americans were
safer in the camps away from other Americans during
war
Overturned later
Official apologies and financial compensation paid in
later years (Reagan and Clinton)
Japanese American
Red Cross volunteer
during attack at Pearl
Harbor
U. S. Military
service in Europe
Senator
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/ww2/threat/eo9
066.htm
Who else has the bomb?
Who is trying to build the bomb?
Bombs are much more powerful today.
Nuclear weapons treaties—U.S. and Russia, 2013
Militarism
Nationalism
Imperialism by Germany, Italy and Japan
Fascism in Europe
Alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan (Axis Powers)
Invasion of Poland by Germany
Fight aggressive dictatorships
Respond to the attack on our Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Rapid Mobilization and Industrialization
Domestic and international leadership of FDR and Truman
Bataan Death March
Multiple Fronts in Europe and Pacific
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
U.S. declared war on Japan
Japan’s allies—Germany and Italy declared war on U.S.
The U.S. had to fight a war on two fronts—Europe and
The Pacific
The U.S. made the European front its first priority
Great Britain (England)--Churchill
France—De Gaulle
USSR/Soviet Union (Russia)—Stalin
These were our friends in WWI and we joined with
them to fight the fascists in Italy and Nazis in
Germany
Europe—invasion of Normandy—D Day
Pacific—Battle of Midway
Open a second front to fight Germany on its western
side
This would relieve the Russians from fighting
Germany alone on its eastern front
We opened the second front when we invaded France
at Normandy
Victory Gardens
Propaganda
Mobilization
https://www.youtube.co
War Bonds
Women at Work
Volunteerism
m/watch?v=l14WDZCnzw
Disney, Dr. Seuss,
Popeye, Bugs Bunny,
Posters…
General Dwight D. Eisenhower--Europe
General Douglas MacArthur--Pacific
Admiral Chester Nimitz--Navy
General Omar Bradley
General George Patton
General George Marshall—Chief Military advisor to
FDR and Truman—Chief of Staff
Tuskegee Airmen—integration
Vernon Baker—First African American who won the Medal of
Honor
Flying Tigers
Navajo Code Talkers--encryption
Women and Minorities in the Military and in the Factories
Double V Campaign for African Americans—Victory at
Home and Victory Abroad (fighting racism and fascism)
Victory over Fascism
Victory over Racism
Effort by African Americans
A. Philip Randolph—leader of
African American union of workers
in munitions factories
Executive Order by FDR
desegregated the factories in the
South
The U.S. set up internment camps against
the___________________________
The Manhattan Project is when the U.S. built an
_____________________________
The killing of 6 million Jews is called The ___________
President during WWII: a)Wilson b)Teddy Roosevelt
c)FDR
Allied commander in Europe: a)Eisenhower b)Patton
c)Bradley
Allied commander in Pacific: a)Nimitz b)Patton
c)MacArthur
Name three totalitarian dictators in Europe:
Name the emperor of Japan.
Name the prime minister of Japan.Tojo
What event made England and France declare war on
Germany?
D-Day
VJ Day
Atomic Warfare
Women at Work—Rosie the Riveter
Bonds
Ration Coupons
Iwo Jima
U.S. had first peace time conscription (draft) before
Pearl Harbor—we were not fully prepared for war but
we were not completely unprepared
Meetings—Casablanca, Tehran and Yalta
Focus on defeating Germany first and Japan second
Internment of Nisei (Japanese American-born)
Lend Lease sent to France, Great Britain, USSR,
China
Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley
ISMs—Fascism, Nazism, Communism
Manhattan Project
War financed by war bonds
Industrial contracts made weapons and war materials
Waste prevention oversight by Senator Truman of
Missouri
Mobilization—gathering and movement of troops
Women— Rosie the Riveter and Norma Jean Baker
Scraps—saved all metal, rubber, nylon
Rationing—tires, gas, sugar, shoes, etc.
Victory Gardens— pulling together
‘’Loose lips sink ships ’’
Japanese Internment camps
1944 election of FDR over Dewey
G. I. Bill—provides money for returning GI’s to go to
college or start a business (GHW Bush etc.)
POW camps—Gainesville, TX
War Brides—Japanese, German, British, …
U.S.O. shows—Bob Hope
Tuskeegee Air Corps
WACS, WAVES, WASPS (see archives at TWU!)
‘‘The Greatest Generation’’
Cartoonist Bill Mauldin in Stars and Stripes
Munichappeasement
Atlantic CharterLend-Lease
White House (Dec. 1941)concentrate on Europe first
Casablanca (January 1943)demanding unconditional surrender from Germany
Tehran (Nov. 1943)—The Big Threediscussed a United Nations and a second front
Yalta (Feb.1945)—Big Threediscussed the future of Eastern Europe—beginning of Cold
War?
Potsdam (July 1945)—New Big Threediscussed UN, thebomb, USSR entering Pacific
War
San Francisco—wrote United Nations charter
Place Name
Time
People
Accomplishments
In Morocco
January 1943
FDR and Churchill--
Stalin was a no-show
Demanded
unconditional surrender
Iran
November,
1943
Stalin, FDR,
Churchill
Second front
Ukraine, USSR
February , 1945
Big Three
Postwar
Europe and
United Nations
Soviet occupation of
Eastern Europe
Soviet dominance in
Eastern Germany and
Berlin
Soviet-sponsored elections
in Eastern Europe
Spread of communism in
Eastern Europe
July, 1945
Postwar Europe, UN
USSR agreed to join
Pacific War
Truman shared news
of atomic bomb
Study terms and 1-18
Study notes with matching
battles
Study Special topics and
Meetings
Study STAAR Terms and
People
Be able to relate the major
ideas of WWII
1. Choose a document to work with. Is it a primary or
secondary source?
2. What “special topic” does it address? Example: The
Holocaust, Japanese Internment, Manhattan Project,
etc.
3. Write a title of the document (if there is one) and
describe it: size, content, details
4. What have you learned about history from this
document? Be specific.