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The US &
World War IIChapter 17 review
Warm-up Question:
• What steps did the U.S. take to try and support the Allies before entering WWII?
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
WWII Military Strategies
• Main Strategies• unconditional surrender• an eventual second front by invading Europe• victory in Europe first.• Then onto the Pacific.
The War for Europe & North Africa
Eisenhower- Europe
Battles of Importance
• Battle of The Atlantic–Hitler cuts off supplies from the U.S. to Britain and the Soviet Union.
• Allies overcame Axis blockades by using convoys
• North Africa and the Desert Fox• The Italian Campaign * Tuskegee Airmen * The 100th or 442nd Combat Team (Nisei)
D-Day
• Plan to invade France
• Operation Overlord
• June 6, 1944
• Amphibious attack
Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation
Overlord”]
Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation
Overlord”]
D-Day Invasion
D-Day (June 6, 1944)D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Normandy Landing
(June 6, 1944)
Normandy Landing
(June 6, 1944)
Higgins Landing Crafts
German Prisoners
TThe Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944TThe Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944
De Gaulle in Triumph!
U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944
U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944
The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive
The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive
Dec. 16, 1944to
Jan. 28, 1945
Death Of President Roosevelt
• April 12, 1945 the President FDR dies
• Vice President Harry Truman becomes President
V.E. DayMay 8 1945
Mussolini & His Mistress,
Claretta Petacci
Are Hung in Milan, 1945
Mussolini & His Mistress,
Claretta Petacci
Are Hung in Milan, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945
Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945
The Führer’s Bunker
Cyanide & Pistols
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler
The War at HomeChapter 17 section 4 review
Opportunity for Americans
• New job opportunities
• unemployment 1.2%
• Farmers
• African Americans move north
• Women made up 35% of the workforce
The Home Front• Selling war bonds raised money for
World War II
• Women• work in factories.• establish themselves as a vital part of the
economy.• participate in the war effort.• define a new role in society.
G.I. Bill
• Servicemen’s Readjustment Act 1944
• Education for veterans
• Federal loans
• Home loans
Discrimination
• Various racial groups experiences high levels of discrimination during WWII
• Would lead to civil rights movement of the 1960’s & 1970’s
The Home Front
• African-American Phillip Randolph demanded equal employment opportunities for blacks during World War II
• Executive Order No. 8802 required defense industries to make jobs available without discrimination based on race, creed, color, or national origin.
• Executive Order 9066- sent ethnic groups to Internment Camps during WWII Feb. 19, 1942
• Korematsu v. U.S. the Supreme Court upheld the government’s practice of placing Japanese Americans in internment camps
Mexican Americans
• 1943 Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots
• Sailors reported that they had been “attacked” by Mexican Americans wearing zoot suits
• riots in Los Angeles in Mexican areas lasted a week
WWII Propaganda Cartoons
• Cartoons used to get Americans to participate in the war effort
• War Industries Board
• Department of Treasury
• Rationing
• Bond Drives
War in the Pacific
Chapter 17 section 3 review
The Pacific Under Japan
Yalta Conference
• Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
• Feb. 1945
• Germany to be divided onto 4 zones
• Stalin agreed to free elections in Eastern Europe and to aid the U.S. in the Pacific
• All agreed on a creation of the United Nations Organization
Macarthur Nimitz
Battles of Importance
• Doolittles Raid
• Battle of Midway
Island Hopping
The Manhattan Project:Los Alamos, NM
• Albert Einstein and FDR• American Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer developed
the atomic bomb• New Mexico
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
Tinian Island, 1945Tinian Island, 1945
Little Boy Fat ManLittle Boy Fat Man
Enola Gay Crew
Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb
Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
© 70,000 killed immediately.
© 48,000 buildings.
destroyed.© 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning & cancer later.
The Beginning of theAtomic Age
The Beginning of theAtomic Age
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
©40,000 killed immediately.
©60,000 injured.©100,000s died of
radiation poisoning& cancer later.
Japanese A-Bomb Survivors
Japanese A-Bomb Survivors
Hiroshima MemorialsHiroshima Memorials
The Atomic Bomb
• Consequences of Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan
– the surrender of Japan– the end of WWII– destruction of two Japanese cities– the deaths of thousands of civilians
Japan Surrenders
• September 2, 1945 Japan surrenders
• USS Missouri
• V-J Day
Aftermath of WWII & The Birth of Cold War Era
Chapter 18 review
U.N. in NYC
Cold War Beginnings
• Yalta Feb. 1945- The Big Three: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
* Stalin goes back on his word = birth of the Cold War
The U.S & S.V
• Both countries were isolated prior to WWII in international relations
• Both practiced “missionary diplomacy”- each with the idea they had the “correct” political doctrine
• The Cold War would last 45 years from 1945-1990
Germany
• Issue of Berlin • West Germany
Democratic (soon independent)
• East Communist (controlled by Soviets)
• 1948 Soviets cut off supplies into Berlin
• Berlin Airlift 1948
Berlin Airlift lasted 327 days
Cold War Beginnings• Soviet specialist George Kennan stance on S.U.
= “get-tough-with-Russia”
• Truman Doctrine- March 1947- $$ given to free people countries threatened by outside pressures & armed minorities (aid sent to Greece & Turkey)
• Marshall Plan- gave money to democratic countries in Europe to rebuild after the war (Russia feeling lonely )
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Democratic countries
• Warsaw Pact- treaty among communist countries
NATO / WARSAW Pacts
U.S. Foreign Policy Post WWII
• Iron Curtain
• Domino Theory
• Containment Policy
Korean War
[1950-1953]
Korea Post WWII
• 6/25/1950 North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel
• South Korea looks to the UN
• Vote taken and the UN takes military action in Korea
The Shifting Map of Korea[1950-1953]
1950-1953
• NSC-68- National Security Council Memorandum-
• U.S. increases funds towards defense• Truman & MacArthur clash * MacArthur wants China * April 1951 MacArthur is fired• Armistice Line 7/27/1953- at 38°
• Presidents video Eisenhower….
The Cold War at Home
Chapter 18 review
Cold War Hysteria• 100,000 Americans were members of the
Communist Party in America
• Republicans push for stricter anti-communism legislature
• Federal Employee Loyalty Program 1947
• House Un-American Activities Committee “HUAC” – 1947
• Hollywood 10
The 2nd Red Scare
• Nixon and Joseph McCarthy head “red hunt”• Alger Hiss• McCarran Internal Security Bill- gave authority to the
gov. to detain and arrest suspicious people (vetoed by Truman)
• Julia and Ethel Rosenberg ‘53• 1997 Russia released recordsStating that Julius had given upinfo
Progress Through ScienceProgress Through Science
1957 1957 Russians launch Russians launch SPUTNIK SPUTNIK II
1958 1958 National National Defense Defense Education Act Education Act
Progress Through Science Progress Through Science
Atomic AnxietiesAtomic Anxieties::
““Duck-and-Cover Duck-and-Cover Generation”Generation”
Atomic TestingAtomic Testing::
1946-1962 1946-1962 U. S. exploded 217 U. S. exploded 217 nuclear weapons over nuclear weapons over the Pacific and in the Pacific and in Nevada.Nevada.
Progress Through Science Progress Through Science
UFO SightingsUFO Sightings skyrocketed in the skyrocketed in the 1950s.1950s.
War of the War of the WorldsWorlds
Hollywood used aliens as a Hollywood used aliens as a metaphor metaphor
for whom for whom ????
You know you’re a red if..
• You have declining religious sentiment
• Increased sexual freedom
• Your Homosexual
• Your for civil rights
• You’re a drunk
• Your in debt
The Red Scare Game
• Are you Red enough????
• Object of the game is for “reds” to get with as many “whites” as they can and for whites to not let any reds into your group
• Each person is worth 5 extra credit points
• RED PAPER STUDENTS ACQUIRE POINTS BY JOINING OR “INFILTRATING” white GROUPS.
• FOR EXAMPLE, A RED PAPER JOINS A GROUP OF SIX white PAPERS WOULD EARN 30 POINTS FOR HIM/HERSELF.
• IF TWO OR MORE RED PAPERS INFILTRATE A GROUP THEN THEY WILL DIVIDE THE POINTS
• ANY GROUP THAT HAS A RED PAPER IN IT, ALL white PAPERS WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY POINTS
• In order for white groups to get points NO reds are to be present