Apr. 9th - Apr. 13th

[6Hannah]

(25 Forum posts between 4/9 and 5/15)
Monday
• Discussing forum posts
• The United States in WW2
o Picture of raising the flag
o Picture of the women workfare
• US after WW1
o US never signed the Treaty of Versailles
 Wilson (Democrat) vs Congress (Republican controlled)
 Join the League of Nations or go back to isolationism?
o Republican Warren Harding won the 1920 Presidential election with a promise to “Return to Normalcy”
o The US went back to focusing on America in the 1920’s and 1930’s
• Washington Naval Conference
• 9 Power Pact
• Kellogg-Bryant Pact
• Neutrality in General
o The Neutrality Acts were passed by the US in the 1930s in response to the issues in Europe and Asia the eventually led to World War 2
o They were caused by the desire to be isolated in the US following WW1
• Cartoon ‘Interventionists vs. Isolationists’
• America First Committee
• Cartoon ‘The Old Man of the Sea’
• Cartoons
• US Neutrality Acts during 1930’s
o Neutrality Act of 1935-stop trading with countries at war
o Neutrality Act of 1936-stop loaning money to countries at war
o Neutrality Act of 1937-Cash and Carry System-weapons not included
o Neutrality Act of 1939-Cash and Carry System-weapons included
• Quarantine Speech-1937
• Panay Incident
• Bases for Destroyers
o Passes in September 1940 between the US and Great Britain
o Fifty US destroyers were given to Great Britain in exchange for land (for 99 years) on British colonies for naval or air base purposes
• Picture of destroyers
• End of US Neutrality-Lend Lease Act
o The end of neutrality for the US came with the Lend-Lease Act, passed in March 1941
o This act allowed the U.S. to sell, lend or give war materials to nations the US wanted to support
o US have $50 billion ($650 billion today) to Allied nations throughout the war
• Picture of Roosevelt
• Chart of the Lend Lease Act (1941-1945)
• Selective Training and Service Act
o Passed in September 1940 and ended in 1947
o Required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register for the draft
o Extended to all men aged 18 to 45 once US entered war
o First peacetime draft in US history
• Video of VJ Day
Tuesday
• German U-Boats
o After repeated attacks by German U-boats on U.S. ships in the Fall of 1941, FDR announced that he had ordered the U.S. navy to attack German and Italian war ships in the “waters which we deem necessary for our defense”
o War was imminent
• Chart
• How did the US/Allies fight back against U-boat warfare?
o Depth Charges
o Convoy System
 Map
• Hunter-Killer Convoy Groups
o Hunter-killer groups would typically be formed around an escort aircraft carrier that would provide aerial reconnaissance and air cover for the convoy group
o Pictures
• Hedgehogs (small type bombs)
• Enigma
o System in which Germany transferred their information through codes
• Allied Intelligence
o Churchill and Roosevelt realized the importance of intelligence
o The Allies shared information from RADAR and High Frequency Radio Direction Finding
o HF/DF was used to locate the sources of enemy radio transmissions such as submarines
o Allied Intelligence began sharing code-breaking secrets known as “ULTRA” and “MAGIC”
• D-Day Facts
o June 6, 1944
o The D in D-Day stands for ‘day” since the final invasion date was unknown and weather dependent
o 156,000 Allied troops from the United States, the UK, Canada, Free France, and Norway
• Yalta Conference Feb 1945
o Picture (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin)
o 1. The establishment of the United Nations
o 2. Germany to be divided into four zones
o 3. Free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
o 4. USSR promised to join the war against Japan
• FDR dies, Harry Truman is sworn in – April 12, 1945
• Women un WW2
• Rosie the Riveter
o Represented women workers in WW2
• Propaganda
• WAVES-Women’s Navy
• WASP-Women’s Army Service Pilots
• Native Americans – Navajo Code Talkers
• African-Americans in WW2 fought (discriminated)
• Tuskegee Institute/Airman
• Asian Americans
• Hollywood- Propaganda
• USO (United Service Organizations)
• Bob Hope
• Bing Crosby
• John Wayne
• Kilroy Engraving on the Ww2 Memorial in DC
Wednesday
• No school
Thursday
• Monday’s test will be over the United States and Italy
• Wednesday’s test will be about Germany
• Friday’s test will be about Japan
• OPA and Rationing
o The Office of Price administration was established in 1941 to control prices of goods
o Food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat; clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon
o Gasoline rationing began in May 1942-five gallons per weeks
o Gas rationing was about saving rubber, not gas
o A black market developed in stolen/counterfeit stickers that were used in up to 30% of gasoline sales
o By 1945, there were 32,500 motorists arrested for using such false stickers, 1300 convictions, 4000 gas stations closed
• Stickers
o The “A” sticker was the most common one in WW2 (3 gallons of gas per week)
o The “B” sticker was issued primarily to business owners (8 gallons of gas per week)
o The “C” sticker was for people that benefitted society
o “M” for motorcycles
o “T” for truckdrivers (unlimited)
o “X” for high mileage type jobs
• Picture of people (mostly women) standing in line for sugar
• Newspaper article
• War Ration Book (pictures)
• Directions that came with the books
• War Production Board
• Horse Meat
• Propaganda
• War Finance Committee and War Bonds
o Over the course of the war 85 million Americans purchased bonds totaling approximately $185 billion
• Japanese Internment Camps
o Map
o Pictures
• In 1993 Bill Clinton wrote a letter to all the left over Japanese families
• Slides that put together the questions for the WW2 test
Friday
• Causes for WW2
• Effects of WW2
o Stimulated economy
o Federal power during the war increased
o More women involved in the workforce
o More rights for African Americans
o Germany was broken up into 4 zones
o Japanese cities were destroyed
o Most deaths ever in a war
o United Nations starts
o Cold War- US vs. USSR
o Deaths
 Soviet Union
 Germany
 China
 Japan
• Starting the last movie