Pump-Up

• Explain how you believe the Allies will win WWII?

World War II Ends

Today’s Vocabulary

• Korematsu v. U.S.– Upheld the relocation of Japanese Americans to

internment camps as constitutional b/c decision was based on military urgency.

Rationing • Victory Gardens

– Produced 8 million tons of food.

• The U.S. began rationing foods and other materials.– Limited the amount of a certain

product each individual can get.– Ration books.

• Scrap drives– Collected scrap metals, rubber,

glass, and oils.

War Bonds

• Federal gov’t spent more than $300 billion during WWII.– War bonds raised $185 billion.

The Office of War Information

• Office of War Information– Responsible for spreading

propaganda.

• Hollywood produced patriotic movies.

Japanese Internment

• Executive Order 9066– Remove people of Japanese

heritage from the Western U.S.– No trials given.

• Poor living conditions in camps.

• Korematsu v U.S.– Internment was legal b/c it was

based on military need, not race.

Nazi Anti-Semitism • Hitler needed someone to

blame for Germany’s hard times.– Nuremberg Laws took

citizenships away from Jews.

• Kristallnacht--“the night of broken glass.”– Thousands of Jewish

businesses and places of worship were damaged.

• Sent message to Jews to “get out”.– Most countries were unwilling

to take in poor immigrants.

Concentration Camps & Ghettos

• Concentration camps – Received little food.– Performed grueling labor.

• Combination was designed to kill.

• Ghettos– Neighborhoods in which

people are confined.– Often taken to concentration

camps.

The Final Solution• Final Solution

– Total destruction of all European Jews.

– Genocide.

• Extermination camps– Gas chambers.

– Medical experiments.

• Also killed:– Prisoners of war, disabled,

gypsies, and homosexuals.

– Anybody who did not fit the description of the Aryan race.

American Response• At 1st, Americans didn’t

want poor coming over.

• War Refugee Board– Helped save 200,000

Jews.

• Soldiers were shocked to find these camps and the conditions in which they found Jewish prisoners.

Nuremberg Trials

• 22 Nazis were tried for war crimes.

Yalta Conference

• Divide Germany into 4 sectors.– Berlin was also split into

4 sectors.

• Stalin agreed to hold elections in Eastern European countries occupied by the Soviets.

Victory in Europe• Allies take the Rhine River.

• U.S. decides not to take Berlin.– Let the Soviet Union take it.

• FDR dies on April 12, 1945.– Harry S. Truman became

President.

• Hitler commits suicide (April 30, 1945).

• Germany surrenders (May 8, 1945).– V-E Day

Victory in Japan• America began by fire bombing

Japan.– Japan given one last chance to

surrender.

• Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945).– 80,000 people died immediately.

• 2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945).– 40,000 people died immediately.

• V-J Day (Aug. 15, 1945).

Post WWII• United Nations created.

– Stronger than the League of Nations.

• U.S. helped Japan set up a Democratic government.

• Rising tensions in Europe with the Soviet Union.

Homework

• Write one page essay if you believe that the U.S. did the right thing by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan to force the country to surrender. Use facts presented in class and information that you find on your own to support your beliefs. – Be sure to point out both the positive and negative

aspects of this decision.

Reflection

• Explain Hitler’s Final Solution and how the Allies win WWII.