Transcript The Last Days of Hitler

The Last Days of Hitler
By Justin McManus
And
Tyler Curl
Manpower and Womanpower
DeMario Ford
US History
3/17/10
• The Armed services enlisted about 15 million
men and about 216,00 women, who were
employed for noncombat duties.
• Some of these women were WAACs (army),
WAVES (navy), and SPARS (Coast Guard).
• Though the draft was a big thing, the US kept
key industrial and agricultural workers out of
the draft to keep its strong industrial and
food-producing machines up to par.
• Despite these efforts, the draft left the farms
and factories so short of workers, that they
had to find more.
• The US and Mexico made an agreement in
1942 that brought thousands of Mexican
agricultural workers called Braceros, to help
harvest in the West.
• This surpassed the wars efforts by 20 years,
becoming a fixed feature of the agricultural
economy in western states.
• Then came the women onto the factory floors.
• More than 6 million took labor, and most of
them being mothers, the government was
forced to create about 3,000 day-care centers,
while they worked in the dirty factories.
• When the war was over, majority weren’t in a
hurry to go back to their normal lifestyles.
• But women who had husbands or children,
did not work in the factories, but continued
their traditional way of life in their natural
habitats.
• At the end of the war, 2/3 of the women
workers left the force. Some were forced out
by employers and unions eager to reemploy
returning servicemen.
• The postwar period didn’t have a widening of
women’s opportunities, but a rush to
suburban domestication and the mothering of
the “baby boomers,” who were born by the
tens of millions in the decade, ad half after
1945.
Holding the Home front
Keeping the Home Front
By:
Spencer Pasion
&
Brian Cruz
Holding the Home front
Despite Segregation in Institutions, South being the
nations number one economic problem, and the
constant flooding of Native Americans to the
North, Americans on their home front suffered
little from the war.
The war was a way to raise morale especially
during the decade-long depression.
• On December 7, 1944, the third anniversary of Pearl
Harbor, Macy’s department store rang up the
biggest sales day in history.
• Americans never had it so good and they wanted
more.
• War not only enlightened social policy but was also
a cure for depression.
Wartime bill
• The Wartime Bill for WWII amounted to more
than $330 billion, ten time more than the direct
cost of WWI.
• Roosevelt would have preferred to use the payas-you-go policy to finance the war but the cost
were too much.
• Only 2/5ths were paid in current revenues
• The national debt skyrocketed from $49 to $259
million in 1945.
• The war was costing $10 million each hour!
• In the North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico, Hitler’s “Wolf Packs” of UBoat Submarines gives the Fuhrer a large advantage, but the Old Fashioned
tactics of the US Armed Forces foils Adolf’s reach to North America. It was a
slow process, but was expedited by the British Code Breakers of the Nazi’s
“Enigma” code.
• Battle of the Atlantic turns the tide for the Allies, but was “nerve-rackingly”
narrow. Hitler was planning after the war to launch an “Über-Sub” that could
travel at 17 knots (~ 19.5 mph) submerged, a very advanced speed.
• The Allies turn the war for them in late 1942, first on a thousand-plane raid on
Cologne by the Brits, joined by the US in August, laying it on the Nazis.
• Meanwhile, Erwin “Desert Fox” Rommel crosses North Africa creeping closer
to the Suez, the arrival being terrible for the Allies. However, the Brit Gen.
Bernard Montgomery in El Alamein with an army of Sherman Tanks (U.S.) he
sent the Nazis packing to Tunisia, a thousand miles away from Cairo.
• On the Soviet Front, the Russians in September 1942 steamroll Hitler’s hopes
in the rubble of taken Stalingrad. Over 20 divisions of Nazi’s surrender or are
“mopped up.” In November the Soviets counterattack without any serious fight
back.
• One year later, 2/3 of Russia is returned to Josef Stalin.
“Keep ‘em
By: Kevin Walsh, period 1
Sailing”
Decline After Election
• After Roosevelts 4th term re-election, Germany was on its last legs
• The U.S. and its allies completely overran the western front, so Hitler used
desperation
• He gambled and sent all his reinforcements to attack the Belgian port
Antwerp, key to American supply
• He took the U.S. be surprize, and penetrated the American lines greatly,
but was stopped by the 101st airborne division
• German’s demanded U.S. surrender (ironic because Germany was loosing)
and General A.C. McAuliffe called it “Nuts”
Discovery of the Camps
• American troops pressed forward, and reached Germany’s Rhine River,
and eventually met up with Eisenhower’s troops at the Elbe River
• The Americans then shortly after found blood spattered and still stinking
concentration left behind by the Germans, some of the many in which 6
million Jews were killed
• The U.S. Gov was informed of the mass genocide but took slow action
against it, in fact, we denied Jewish immigrants and even denied to bomb
the railways carrying the Jews into the concentration camps
• The full details were never known however, and when it was made public,
the entire world was shocked
The Death of Hitler
• The vengeful Soviets eventually reached Berlin in April of 1945, and took
the city after house to house fighting
• After hearing the news, Hitler quickly married his Mistress and committed
suicide in an underground bunker on April 30, 1945
• President Roosevelt meanwhile had died on April 12th 1945, and the
burden of a 12 year depression and war began to take its toll
• On May 7th,1945 Germany’s Gov surrendered unconditionaly
• May 8 was officially called V-E day (Victory in Europe day) and was greeted
with rejoice by all allied countries
Japan Dies Hard
• The war was winding down to an end as America
dominates from the sky
• The fire bombings on Japan in March 10, 1945
devastated the fragile city
• The Americans once again dominated the sky in the
battle of Leyte Gulf and Iwo Jima
• While the Americans did also take Okinawa they had
many casualties
• We were slowing closing in on the main islands of Japan
and they were getting more and more despirate