-For this weeks weekly blog I have to blog about The Great Society-Environment (pg.690).
- For the cold war project I got NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence
- Mr. Bruns doesn’t think we are going to have another test till the semester test. So we went over the semester test questions.
Home Front
- Women joined work force
- Women worked mostly in factories
- Children skipped school to help on the farm with harvest
- After war women wanted to keep doing factory work
- Rationing system was begun
- Rationing made people get their fair share
- Price controls on products
- Weekly wages rose 10 percent
- Biggest migration in history
- Birth rates went up
- Divorce rates went up after war
African Front
- Eisenhower was a general in world war 2
- Free French didn’t want to help Hitler
- Pietro Badoglio Italy general
- June 17, battle of Girba
- Operation torch was a big win for the U.S.(beginning of the end)
- U.S. didn’t loose as many people as other countries
Mediterranean Front
- Churchill called Italy “soft underbelly of the axis”
- Invasion of Sicily began in July 1943
- Rivers along the border caused flooding
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Spying Game
- cryptography- the practice of studying and hiding information\
- codenames- magic, bombe, purple, ultra
- magic= directed toward Japan
- purple= was a Japanese machine
- bombe= was a British machine
- enigma= was like a typewriter (would type your message)
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D- Day
- also known as operation overlord
- June 6, 1944
- 2 phases= air assault and amphibious landing
- airborne divisions were dropped behind enemy lines right before D-Day begins
- U.S. had a problem crossing the English channel
- Germany was well protected on the beach
European front
- battle of the bulge most important battle in WW2
- Warsaw uprising
- The Rhine River was the final obstacle for the U.S. and the rest of the allies
- Turkey losses their neutrality in Feb. 1945
- Dividing and conquering parts of Germany was the strategy of the allies
- Operation Plunder was a success
- The Soviets were the first outsiders to see the concentration camps
- War ended on May 7, 1945
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