Theodor Geisel/Dr. Seuss

World War II Movies

Patton Saving Private Ryan The Longest Day Letters from Iwo Jima Flags of Our Fathers The Pacific Band of Brothers Downfall (German) Life is Beautiful (Italian) Windtalkers Enemy at the Gates Casablanca Red Tails (on Tuskegee Air

Corps) The Best Years of Our Lives

The War by Ken Burns Thin Red Line Great Escape Pearl Harbor Schindler’s List Boy in the Striped Pajamas Stalag 17 Dirty Dozen The Pianist The Valkyrie Defiance Sound of Music Sarah’s Key Devil’s Arthmetic Inglorious B……

STAAR Terms—Study these for a quiz

TotalitarianismAppeasementBlitzkriegThird ReichLend LeasePearl HarborBataan Death MarchRationingD DayMidway HiroshimaMobilization

Yalta ConferenceV E DayV J DayUnited NationsOffice of War

InformationExecutive Order 9066Tuskegee AirmenFlying TigersNavajo Code TalkersFDR and TrumanRosie the RiveterG I Bill

1939-1945

World War II

The Holocaust,

Japanese Internment,

Manhattan Project

STAAR Objectives

Meetings

World War IISpecial Topics

The Holocaust (Genocide)

Anti-Semitism—history

Diaspora after Roman occupation of Israel and Judah

Middle Ages—laws against Jews“Scapegoats” in literature and historyGhettos—walled communitiesMore diasporas from Spain (1492) and Russia

(1917)Pogroms19th century—Jewish immigration into Germany

Order of Events…

The Nuremberg Laws

Mein Kampf published, 1927Hitler became chancellor, 1933Nuremberg Laws passed and enforcedExodus of many German JewsKrystallnacht, 1938Confinement to walled ghettosMobilization to concentration campsLabor and eventual elimination

From 1927 to 1945

The Final Solution

How many Jews died in The Holocaust?Non-Jews?

Auschwitz— ‘‘Work will set you free ’’

Ignorance of factsThe ship, The St. LouisZyclon BDiscovery of camps by Americans and

RussiansEisenhower’s workWork of survivors

U.S.

Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust Museum in Washington

Israel

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/36quest1.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?_r=1&

Any questions?

Japanese-American Internment

Executive Order 9066 (Feb. 1942)

Enforcement began in September, 1942110,000 interned

Single largest forced movement in American history

All Civil Rights denied

Moved to holding areas and then camps surrounded by barbed wire

Issei—Japanese immigrants

Nisei—next generation—Japanese American children of immigrants

Sansei—third generation (and subsequent) Japanese-Americans

“One, Two, Three”

The 442 nd Regiment served in Italy—most decorated regiment in the war

Landmark Supreme Court Case challenging internment

Decision determined that Japanese-Americans were safer in the camps away from other Americans during war

Overturned later

Official apologies and financial compensation paid in later years (Reagan and Clinton)

Korematsu v. United States

Manzanar

Japanese American Red Cross volunteer during attack at Pearl HarborU. S. Military service in EuropeSenator

Senator In0uye of Hawaii

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/ww2/threat/eo9066.htm

Any questions?

The Manhattan ProjectIt all started with a letter to the President

Los Alamos—set up by Colonel Leslie Groves—New Mexico desert—top secret

Robert Oppenheimer

Truman’s Decision

Colonel Tibbets

Hiroshima—135,000 casualties

Nagasaki—64,000 casualties

Who else has the bomb?

Who is trying to build the bomb?

Bombs are much more powerful today.

Nuclear weapons treaties—U.S. and Russia, 2013

Current concerns regarding atomic weapons

STAAR Objectives/Test Review

Militarism

Nationalism

Imperialism by Germany, Italy and Japan

Fascism in Europe

Alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan (Axis Powers)

Invasion of Poland by Germany

Causes of WWII

Fight aggressive dictatorships

Respond to the attack on our Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Rapid Mobilization and Industrialization

Domestic and international leadership of FDR and Truman

Bataan Death March

Multiple Fronts in Europe and Pacific

Liberation of Concentration Camps

Domestic and International Impact of WWII on the U.S.:

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

U.S. declared war on Japan

Japan’s allies—Germany and Italy declared war on U.S.

The U.S. had to fight a war on two fronts—Europe and The Pacific

The U.S. made the European front its first priority

Why did the U.S. join WWII?

Great Britain (England)--Churchill

France—De Gaulle

USSR/Soviet Union (Russia)—Stalin

These were our friends in WWI and we joined with them to fight the fascists in Italy and Nazis in Germany

Who were the U.S. allies in WWII?

Europe—invasion of Normandy—D Day

Pacific—Battle of Midway

Turning Points

Open a second front to fight Germany on its western side

This would relieve the Russians from fighting Germany alone on its eastern front

We opened the second front when we invaded France at Normandy

USSR needed their allies to…

Home FrontVictory Gardens

Mobilization

War Bonds

Women at Work

Volunteerism

Propaganda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l14WDZCnz-w

Disney, Dr. Seuss, Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Posters…

General Dwight D. Eisenhower--EuropeGeneral Douglas MacArthur--PacificAdmiral Chester Nimitz--Navy

General Omar BradleyGeneral George Patton

General George Marshall—Chief Military advisor to FDR and Truman—Chief of Staff

American Military Leaders

Tuskegee Airmen—integration

Flying Tigers

Navajo Code Talkers--encryption

Women in the Military and in the Factories

Minorities in the Military and in the Factories

Contributions to the War Effort

Review…The U.S. set up internment camps against

the___________________________

The Manhattan Project is when the U.S. built an _____________________________

The killing of 6 million Jews is called The ___________

President during WWII: a)Wilson b)Teddy Roosevelt c)FDR

Allied commander in Europe: a)Eisenhower b)Patton c)Bradley

Allied commander in Pacific: a)Nimitz b)Patton c)MacArthur

STAAR Practices

Name three totalitarian dictators in Europe:

Name the emperor of Japan.

Name the prime minister of Japan.Tojo

What event made England and France declare war on Germany?

WWI I Test Review

TotalitarianDictators

Recognize Major EventsD-DayVJ DayAtomic WarfareWomen at Work—Rosie the RiveterBondsRation CouponsIwo Jima

U.S. had first peace time conscription (draft) before Pearl Harbor—we were not fully prepared for war but we were not completely unprepared

Meetings—Casablanca, Tehran and YaltaFocus on defeating Germany first and Japan secondInternment of Nisei (Japanese American-born)Lend Lease sent to France, Great Britain, USSR,

ChinaEisenhower, Patton, Bradley ISMs—Fascism, Nazism, CommunismManhattan Project

STAAR Reminders

AP Supplement…Home FrontWar financed by war bondsIndustrial contracts made weapons and war

materialsWaste prevention oversight by Senator Truman of

MissouriMobilization—gathering and movement of troopsWomen— Rosie the Riveter and Norma Jean BakerScraps—saved all metal, rubber, nylonRationing—tires, gas, sugar, shoes, etc.Victory Gardens— pulling together‘’Loose lips sink ships ’’

Japanese Internment camps1944 election of FDR over DeweyG. I. Bill—provides money for returning GI’s to go

to college or start a business (GHW Bush etc.)POW camps—Gainesville, TXWar Brides—Japanese, German, British, …U.S.O. shows—Bob HopeTuskeegee Air CorpsWACS, WAVES, WASPS (see archives at TWU!)‘‘The Greatest Generation’’Cartoonist Bill Mauldin in Stars and Stripes

And…

‘Just give me an aspirin—I’ve already got a purple heart.’

Munichappeasement

Atlantic CharterLend-Lease

White House (Dec. 1941)concentrate on Europe first

Casablanca (January 1943)demanding unconditional surrender from Germany

Tehran (Nov. 1943)—The Big Threediscussed a United Nations and a second front

Yalta (Feb.1945)—Big Threediscussed the future of Eastern Europe—beginning of Cold War?

Potsdam (July 1945)—New Big Threediscussed UN, thebomb, USSR entering Pacific War

San Francisco—wrote United Nations charter

Meetings (Cause and Effect)

Place Name Time People

Accomplishments

WWII Meetings

Casablanca ConferenceJanuary 1943

Stalin was a no-show

Germany and unconditional surrender

Tehran ConferenceNovember, 1943

USSR needed a second front in Europe

Future of Germany

Yalta ConferenceFebruary , 1945

Future of Postwar

Europe

United Nations peacekeeping organization

Yalta led to…Soviet occupation of

Eastern Europe

Soviet dominance in Eastern Germany and Berlin

Soviet-sponsored elections in Eastern Europe

Spread of communism in Eastern Europe

Potsdam ConferenceJuly, 1945

Postwar Europe, UN

USSR agreed to join Pacific War

Truman shared newsof atomic bomb

1. Choose a document to work with. Is it a primary or secondary source?

2. What “special topic” does it address? Example: The Holocaust, Japanese Internment, Manhattan Project, etc.

3. Write a title of the document (if there is one) and describe it: size, content, details

4. What have you learned about history from this document? Be specific.

Primary Source Assignment