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Monday, Feb. 10 Objective: Agenda: Today we will investigate and describe the role and sacrifices of members of the American armed forces on D-Day and the WWII in Europe by taking notes and investigation different “fronts” of WWII. • Warm Up • U.S. Prepares for War on the Home front • V-E Day • Holocaust • What did you learn in school Green Desk: Clean Up Orange Desk: Gather Materials Pink Desk: Recorder Yellow Desk: Gather Handouts 1. Who are the members of the Big Three? 2. What is an example of a change that occurred on the Homefront during WWII? 3. Why did the US Gov. detain 127,000 Japanese Americans in Interment Camps? Warm Up The Homefront • After Pearl Harbor, many Americans came to fear that another attack was imminent on American soil. Fear, not facts, cause the American government to contain 127,000 JapaneseAmerican citizens in internment camps. Internment Camps: a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners. The Homefront Based on these pictures and what you know, what was the opinion of Japanese-Americans? The Homefront • Much like WWI, many Americans enlisted in the military, leaving their daily jobs behind. Women stepped in to fill the void and keep making bullets, tanks, planes, and other necessities. • It was a combined effort for everyone. Dad went to war, Mom went to work, and the kids rationed their food for soldiers overseas. What is the point of these WWII propoganda posters? What is the message to women during WWII? D-Day (June 6, 1944) Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944) German Prisoners Higgins Landing Crafts The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944 De Gaulle in Triumph! U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944 The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Offensive Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945 Yalta: February, 1945 FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war. y FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany. y Churchill wants strong Germany as buffer against Stalin. y FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’. y US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River: April 25, 1945 Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 Cyanide & Pistols The Führer’s Bunker Mr. & Mrs. Hitler V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel Soviets take Berlin Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Entrance to Auschwitz: Work Makes You Free Crematoria at Majdanek Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Slave Labor at Buchenwald Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen What did you learn in school today? 1. What was it like on D-Day for all soldiers? 2. Why do you think the U.S. Military decide upon a land invasion of the French beaches? Was this for the common good? 3. How was D-Day a turning point in the War?