Transcript Entertainment propaganda Life on the Home Front

THE US ENTERS THE WAR ! PG- 28
1940 ELECTION- FDR VS. WILKIE
WASHINGTON WOULDN’T,
GRANT COULDN’T, FDR
SHOULDN’T!
BETTER A THIRD TERM
THAN A THIRD RATE!
DON’T CHANGE HORSES
IN MIDSTREAM
QUIETLY PREPARE-LEARN FROM
WILSON
• BUILD UP OCEAN NAVY
• DRAFT
• SECRET OPERATIONS
I. U.S. Prepares for War
1. ”Cash and Carry “ policy begins to allow
warring nations to buy US arms, as long as
they paid cash & transported them in their
own ships
2. Axis Powers formed J/G/I
3. Selective Service begins draft process
(in case of a 2 front war)
-*Roosevelt seeks third term & wins
4.Lend-Lease policy begun to help supply
allies-Arsenal of Democracy GB had NO
money
5. Atlantic Charter signed between U.S.
and Britain becomes basis for United
Nations
*resembles 14 points of Wilson
*****Hitler’s Mistake***
-Battle of Britain has stalled
-June 1941 Germany attacks Russia
-early success but then stalemate
-Russian winter sets in and halts
advance
-Now war is on two fronts
***MEANWHILE…JAPAN HAS BEEN
CUT OFF OF OIL.
• CHOICE A- PULL OUT
OF CHINA
• CHOICE B-ATTACK
MIDDLE EAST
• CHOICE C-ATTACK
U.S. FIRST
II. U.S. enters the War
1. U.S. has embargo on Japan for actions
of Aggression in the Pacific
(J hoped to unit all of East Asia) Japan
could not live w/o Oil.*Defeating J w/o
firing a shot
*. U.S. had warning of a possible
Japanese attack somewhere
2. Early Dec. 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor
Hawaii is attacked
“day that will live in infamy”
3. U.S. declares war on Japan and then
Germany, Italy declare war on U.S.
*For 1 ½ hrs, J was barely
disturbed by US Guns
*Killed 2,400 Americans
*wounded 1,178
*Sunk/Damaged 21 HUGE Battleships
*Destroyed 300 Aircrafts
*More Damaged combined than all WW
• 19 SHIPS
• 188 PLANES
• 2,400 AMERICANS
WHERE TO GO FIRST?
• WHY EUROPE?
• EISENHOWER
• DEFENSIVE FIGHTING IN PACIFIC
• MACARTHUR
III. Americans in the Service
1. millions volunteered and millions more
were drafted: Selective Service System
Expanded
-GI’s (GOVERNMENT ISSUED) went to
basic training for 8 weeks
2. Women’s Auxiliary Corps
thousands volunteered- served in Nonbattle/Non Combat positions
3. Minorities served in segregated unitsnot allowed combative roles until last
year of the war
Tuskegee Airmen 1st all AA Air force,
Africa
CONCLUSION
THEY BECAME ONE OF THE
MOST HIGHLY RESPECTED
FIGHTER GROUPS OF WORLD
WAR II.
THEY PROVED TO OTHERS THEY
COULD FLY AND MAINTAIN
SOPHISTICATED COMBAT
AIRCRAFT.
THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BECAME THE CATALYSTS FOR
FULL INTEGRATION OF AFRICAN
AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
MILITARY.
IV. Life on the Home Front
= Production Miracle
1. War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials ex: automobile
plants retooled to produce
tanks/planes
*WWII brought the US out of the
Great Depression!
IV. Life on the Home Front
2. Scientists are mobilized: to bring
into the war effort
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project) :
intensive program to build an
atomic bomb in shorter than 3 yrs
*Albert Einstein warned against it
3. women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter” icon for
women in the workforcepropaganda
-Entertainment propaganda
-newsreels
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda:
Hollywood churned out War
propaganda films
V. Government Control
1. many products rationed to
conserve resources :Coupon books
to be used for buying rationed
items- meat, shoes, coffee
gasoline
2. income taxes increased
3. War Bonds sold –loaning the
Gov’t $
4. Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. United States
discriminatory policy???
Government Control
-Inflation controlled by price
freezes
-many products rationed to
conserve resources
-income taxes increased
-War Bonds sold
-Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. United States
discriminatory policy???
Government Control
-Inflation controlled by price
freezes
-many products rationed to
conserve resources
-income taxes increased
-War Bonds sold
-Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. United States
discriminatory policy???
GERMAN
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