Transcript Chapter 29 Characteristics of War By Kevin Cabrera

Characteristics of War
The Helicopters Have Found You…
A Ruined Library
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"In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to
do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale
of the populace."
Albert Speer - Chief of the German War Economy
A War of Science
World War Two brought upon a wave of casualties
due to the development of weapons of mass
destruction. (Bulliet 786)
Among some of the weapons was the radar, the V-2
missile, fighter planes, and synthetic rubbers.
(Bulliet 786)
Unlike WWI, the government encouraged civilian
inventors to submit their technological innovations.
(Bulliet 786)
In October 1939, president Roosevelt received a
letter from a Jewish refugee physict, Albert
Einstein, warning of the evils of nuclear technology.
(Bulliet 786)
Fearing Germany would develop a nuclear bomb
first, America constructed two nuclear bombs by
1945. (Spodek 593)
Apart from the destructive advancements,
antibiotics were made to prevent and eliminate
common diseases between the common people
and the soldiers.
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Atomic Bomb Explosion
wii_technology.htm)
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Bombing raids
A Bombed German Building
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While Germans were unable to destroy whole
cities, the British strived to excel in actually
destroying whole cities. (Spodek 612)
Bombing raids in major cities were aimed at
lowering the peoples’ morale. (Bulliet 786)
The Alliance’s plan of weakening morale in
Germany failed. Germans remained confident,
strong, and determined well into 1945. By
1945, war efforts practically diminished.
(http://www.history-offlight.net/Aviation%20history/WW2/bombing%
20raids.htm)
Americans had sent sixteen planes to bomb
Tokyo, Japan. The devastation turned to 80,000
casualties and the destruction of one million
homes. (Bulliet 788)
The bombing of Tokyo was much more
devastating than any German bombing because
buildings were made of wood. (Bulliet 788)
The German’s Air Force Squadron was known
as the Luftwaffe. (Spodek 612)
The Holocaust
The pit of dead bodies at
Auschwitz
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During World War Two, Adolph Hitler and his
fascist Nazi party led an anti-Semitist movement
known as the Holocaust. (Bulliet 788)
German Jews were deprived of their citizenship
and legal rights and herded into ghettoes, where
many died of starvation and disease. (Spodek
612)
In early 1942 the Nazis decided to apply modern
industrial methods in order to slaughter the
Jewish population of Europe in concentration
camps like Auschwitz. (Bulliet 788)
Besides the Jews, the Nazis also killed Polish
Catholics, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Gypsies, and the disabled, all in the interests of
“racial purity.” (Spodek 612)
The word Holocaust, in German, stood for
burning. (Collins 171)
Whenever a Nazi officer was caught in a foreign
territory, the order was sent to burn the foreign
town to the ground. (Bulliet 788)
The Home Fronts
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The home front was known as a quick military
execution that involved raiding and bombing
civilians’ homes. (Armstrong 257)
Military officers swept through cities stealing
anything of value. Meanwhile, bombings destroyed
whole cities. All the while, civilians were either
dragged to concentration camps or were hiding in
fear. (Bulliet 789)
Due to the masses of males sent out to the war fronts,
women took a major role in producing war products
and the industrialization movement. (Spodek 612)
The United States was one of the only countries that
actually benefitted from the second world war since
they made mounds of money by producing war
products. (Andrea 411)
Large amounts of Africans and Mexicans migrated to
the United states to replace the white males’ position
in the industrialization movement. (Bulliet 788)
Another racist movement was taking place in the
United States when Japanese immigrants were set to
their own ghettos just because of their race. (Bulliet
789)
This industrialization caused strong stress against the
environment. (Bulliet 790)
Rosie the Riveter: Symbol of the Women’s
Industrial movement
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s/citydesk/files/2008/02/rosie_the_riveter.j
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