Transcript WWII Special Topics/Test Review

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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
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
The Pacific
Band of Brothers
Downfall (German)
Life is Beautiful (Italian)
Windtalkers
Enemy at the Gates
Casablanca
Red Tails (on Tuskegee Air
Corps)
 The Best Years of Our Lives
 Fat Man and Little Boy
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The War by Ken Burns
Thin Red Line
Great Escape
Pearl Harbor
Schindler’s List
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Stalag 17
Dirty Dozen
The Pianist
The Valkyrie
Defiance
Sound of Music
Sarah’s Key
Devil’s Arthmetic
Inglorious B……
 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-
instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF8#q=red%20tails%20trailer
 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
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 in the Military and in the Factories
 Minorities in the Military and in the Factories
 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
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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
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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
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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
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Munichappeasement
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Atlantic CharterLend-Lease
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White House (Dec. 1941)concentrate on Europe first
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Casablanca (January 1943)demanding unconditional surrender from Germany
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Tehran (Nov. 1943)—The Big Threediscussed a United Nations and a second front
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Yalta (Feb.1945)—Big Threediscussed the future of Eastern Europe—beginning of Cold
War?
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Potsdam (July 1945)—New Big Threediscussed UN, thebomb, USSR entering Pacific
War
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San Francisco—wrote United Nations charter
Place Name
Time
People
Accomplishments
 January 1943
 Stalin was a no-show
 Germany and
unconditional surrender
 November,
1943
 USSR needed
a second front
in Europe
 Future of
Germany
 February , 1945
 Future of Postwar
Europe
 United Nations
peacekeeping
organization
 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
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.