April 29, 2010

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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