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World War II Grading for the First Draft of the Research Assignment The grade for the first draft is pass/fail: Pass (A) - you've submitted a 3-page paper that analyzes images from both photographers Fail (F) - no paper, no images analyzed, or no comparison of two photographers Our comments will also include suggestions for revisions and a grade expressing where you are in terms of the second draft. So you will see: First draft: Pass Second draft so far: C (and a list of suggested revisions) Office Hours Gabrielle: Next Weds, March 8, 4:30-5:30 PM, in the teaching assistants’ office on 10th floor of the LB building Please email Gabrielle if you plan to come--if many people want to come she will make her office hours longer. Elena: Usual office hours, Tu-Thu 3-4 PM and Weds. 4:30 to 5:30 PM Also by appointment. Pearl Harbor > Events leading up to the attack • 1922 Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy • September 1931 Japan occupies Manchuria • March 1933 Adolf Hitler seizes power • May 1933 Japan quits League of Nations • 1936 Spanish Civil War against Franco • August 1937 Japan invades China • October 1937 FDR calls for international cooperation against aggression • March 1938 Germany annexes Austria • September 1938 Munich agreement lets Germany annex Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia • November 1938 Kristallnacht, Nazis attack Jews and destroy Jewish property • March 1939 Germany annexes remainder of Czechoslovaka • August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union sign nonagression pact • September 1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins •April-June 1940 Bliztkrieg (Germany conquers much of Western Europe) • September 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis powers) conclude a military alliance • September 1940 First peacetime draft in American history • November 1940 FDR elected for a third term • March 1941 Lend-Lease Act extends aid to Great Britain • May 1941 Germans secure the Balkans • June 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union • August 1941 The United States and Great Britain agree to the Atlantic Charter • December 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor > Antiwar labor pamphlet Pearl Harbor > North American Aviation advertisement, Collier’s, 1942 Pearl Harbor > Omaha high school student’s fascist sticker, 1938 Pearl Harbor > US Ships during Pearl Harbor attack, 1941 Pearl Harbor > Pearl Harbor hero Doris (“Dorie”) Miller poster Chronology > Some key events of World War II • December 1941 - Pearl Harbor • February 1942 - Executive Order mandates internment of Japanese Americans • May-June 1942 - US wins naval superiority in the Pacific • November 1942 - US lands in North Africa • January 1943 - Casablanca Conference announces unconditional surrender policy • February 1943 - Soviet victory over Germans in Stalingrad • May 1943 - German troops surrender in Africa • July 1943 - Allied invasion of Italy • June-August 1944 - US lands in Normandy; liberates Paris • November 1944 - FDR is elected to fourth term • February 1945 - Yalta conference renews US-Soviet alliance • February-June 1945 - US captures Iwo Jima and Okinawa • April 1945 - FDR dies; Harry Truman becomes president • May 1945 - Germany surrenders • August 1945 - US drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders Morale > Anti-Nazi poster, 1942 Morale > Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on Collier’s cover, 1942 Morale > “Trust and Rely” Japanese poster, 1937 Experience > Cartoon from Yank: The Army Weekly, 1943 Experience > American soldier killed by mortar fire, 1944 Experience > Bill Maudlin, “Up Front,” Stars and Stripes, 1945 “Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners.” Experience > Ben Hurwitz, inside a troop ship, 1943 Experience > Ben Hurwitz, going home after a pass in Naples, 1943 Pinups > Betty Grable Pinups > Lena Horne, the most popular pinup among black soldiers Sacrifice > Winchester poster urging sacrifice Consumption > Cigarette ad in McCall’s, 1942 Four Freedoms > Freedom from Want Four Freedoms > Freedom from Fear Four Freedoms > Freedom to Worship Four Freedoms > Freedom of Speech Rationing > Collier’s cover, 1942 Rationing > 1943 poster on conserving fuel Industry > Job listings board in Detroit, July 1941 Industry > “It’s Boats, Boats, Boats!” OWI poster Industry > “America’s Answer! Production” Office for Emergency Management poster, 1942 Women > Rosie the Riveter Poster Women > McCall’s cover, September 1942 Women > After work in a Richmond, California, shipyard Women > War Manpower Commission recruiting posters Double V > Poster for a Double V campaign of 1942 Double V > “Private Joe Louis Says” poster Double V > An African American GI escorts captured German soldiers Double V > Members of the United Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Employees Union, Detroit, 1942 Double V > Thurgood Marshall, who won the “whites-only” Democratic primaries case in 1944 and Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Double V > March on Washington Movement Flyer, ca. 1941 and a photograph of March on Washington, 1963 Double V > Policemen arresting women during the riots in Harlem, 1943 Double V > A leaflet disctributed by the Seven Mile/Fenelon Neighborhood Association in February 1942 Double V > A black homeowner protects his property near the Sojourner neighborhood Double V > Detroit police arrests a group of blacks, February 1942 Double V > Police try to disburse a crowd of blacks at Sojourner Truth Housing Project, February 1942 Double V > The Detroit Riot, June 21, 1943 Double V > White mob moves up Woodward, early hours Double V > Rioters overturn a car Double V > The same car set on fire Zoot suit > Clyde Duncan from Gainsville, VA, in the New York Times, 1943 and jazz musician Cab Calloway, 1943 Zoot suit > Cartoon, Mercury Herald and News, April 25, 1943 Zoot suit > Los Angeles police officer pretends to clip the hair of a zoot-suiter; headline from Los Angeles Examiner, 1942 Zoot suit > Mexican Americans stripped of zoot suits during the riots, Life, 1943 Zoot suit > Sailor arrested during the riots, Los Angeles Daily News, 1943 Internment > Map of Japanese-American Internment Camps Internment > “How to Tell Chinese from a Jap,” from an Army manual Internment > Inside the fence of an internment camp Internment > Fred Korematsu with a letter of apology from the White House