bell ringer 10/25/07 complete #4 analyzing visual sources on p. 568. answer both questions in...
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Bell Ringer 10/25/07
•Complete #4 Analyzing Visual Sources on p. 568. Answer both questions in complete sentences.
(7 min.)
December 7, 1941
Military Expands
• 5 million volunteered• Selective Service
provided 10 million• WAAC- Women’s
Auxiliary Army Corps; women served in non-combat positions
• Granted a salary but few of the benefits given to male soldiers
Industrial Production Surges
• Across the nation, factories were quickly converted to war production
• Automobile plants were re-tooled to produce airplanes, tanks, battleships
6 million new women workers
Discrimination
• Minorities were discriminated against in both the military and industry.
• 1 million African Americans
• 300,000 Mexicans• 25,000 Native
Americans
Protest
• March on Washington- July 1, 1941
• FDR, afraid of a problem, conceded.
• FDR issued an executive order calling on employers and unions to end racial discrimination in the workplace.
Scientists Mobilized
• Office of Scientific Research and Development
• Radar and sonar• DDT (combat lice)• Manhattan Project
Churchill and Roosevelt
• The two met shortly after Pearl Harbor
• Decided that Germany posed a greater threat than Japan
• Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike Hitler first
Battle of the Atlantic
• Hitler ordered U-boat raids along America’s east coast
• Tried to prevent food and supplies going overseas to the Allies
• By mid-1943 America had turned the tide in the Atlantic
Meanwhile……
German Army Pushes East
• August 1942• Blitzkrieg!• Brutal hand-to-hand
combat• Winter came• Soviets came back
with tanks• Held the Germans• Lost 1,100,000 Rus.
North Africa
• Map on p.572• November 1942• 107,000 Allied troops
landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers
• Chased the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps
Italy
• Allies captured Sicily in summer of 1943
• “Bloody Anzio” - battle that lasted four months
• 25,000 Allied dead• 30,000 Axis dead
African American Heroes
• Tuskegee Airmen (99th Pursuit Squadron)
• 92nd Infantry Division (the Buffaloes)
• Distinguished themselves heroically in Italy
The D-Day Invasion (map p. 575)
Largest Air, Sea, Land Assault
Homework• I WANT YOU TO DO
THIS…….
• p.577 #2 Taking Notes