Mr. Bruns gave his review presentation
The HomeFront:1940 we were still neutral. We were preparing war and the peacetime was set up and it was supporting military needs.
George C. Marshall- chief
US military during WWII;Rosie the Riveter- represented women in factories
Tokyo Rose- Forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for japan.
In these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home. made them sorrowful.
She was a US citizen in Japan. Convicted of treason.
Henry Kaiser-;owner of the ship building company, without guys like him we wouldn’t have won the war. He was an industrialist.
The reason why we won the war
-Natural resources
-Power
-Technology
-Hitler and Japan made the mistake by invading Soviet Union and China
-Industrialist
Bob Hope- entertained the troops
Rationing
Gas-used stickers in your window.
A Sticker-4 gallons a gas per week
B Sticker- war worker
C Sticker-Doctors
T sticker-Trucker
Food stamps and rationing books
Rationing caused illegal activity such as stealing
Rationing would not be good for our time period, people are so used to getting what they want when they want.
European Front-
Battle of Bulge;Allies captures the German town of Aaechen
Germanys last ditch effort to recapture the Belgian port of Antwerp
Liberation of Death Camps;Allied troops eastward
Soviet pushed westward
Came upon death camp in July 1944
SS guards tried to bury and burn evidence
Surrender-
April 25, 1945
Soviet had stormed Berlin
Hitler blamed the Jews while blaming the generals for not winning it
Hitler shot himself and his wife drank poison
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