monday 4/26/10


I have the Policy of Containment: Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine for the cold war and me Alex nick and Kody have the 1950 video project.

The US Home front:

  • American Propaganda goals
    • Portray the Germans and Japanese as animalistic, demonic, under undesirable
  • Rationing- the gov’t gave people less food, gas, rubber, and silk
  • War bonds- is how the gov’t got money to pay for the war
  • Women in WWII
    • They worked in factories, offices, military bases, and journalists
    • No good paying jobs
    • Low benefits
    • Low income
    • Low quality facilities for the children

The African Front

· Where

o In northern Africa in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts

· Who fought

o Italy declared war on Great Britain

· TANKS BIG PART OF THE BATTLE

· Stalin wanted us to invade France so Germany wouldhave to fight a two sided war.

· Major general

o Britain- Montgomery

o U.S.- George Patten

o Germany- Irwin Ramel

· Operation Torch

· Major BATTELS

o SIDI, BARRANI ITAY

o OPERATION COMPASS

o SECOND BATTLE OF EL ALAMIN

o OPERATION CRUSADER

o TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN

· WHY THE ALLIED WON

o BECAUSE OF ULTRA IN NORTH AFRICA

  • The Italian-Mediterranean front
    • Generals
      • Dwight d Eisenhower-USA
      • Alexander –Britain
      • George S. Patton- Usa
    • Axis
      • Benito Mussolini
      • Alfredo guzzui
      • Rodolfo grazzoni

    • Battles
      • Battle of the Atlantic-mainly navel
      • Battle on ortono- major battle
      • Battle of Rome- major because Rome is Italy’scapital and people think that if you capture the capital you capture thecountry
    • Italy’s military struggles: weak and poor weapons
    • No aircraft carriers at the beginning of the war.
    • The soldier had no real idea what they were fighting for
    • The king order that Mussolini be captured and was hung the next day
  • The Spying Game:
    • Nancy wake :
      • British spy
      • born 1912 in new Zealand
      • trained in Australia,
      • worked in the Vichy zone
      • number 1 on the most wanted list and had a bounty of 5,000,000 franks on her head
      • was captured and let go
    • Navajo code talkers
      • The were Navajo Indians that cold speak both Navajo and English
      • And the only people that know what the Navajo were saying was the Navajo who were talking because no one could have study the langue because it wasnever written down
    • Klaus Fuchs
      • German born
      • Worked on the hydrogen bomb
      • Worked on the British atomic bomb and he told the soviet union about the bombs that great Britainand the united state were building
      • Worked on the “Manhattan Project” the code name for the atomic bomb
    • Ultra
      • The code name for breaking Germanys codes
      • The bomb- electromagnetically device(the first design was developed by the poles)
      • The Enigma Machine
        • Developed in WWI
        • Germans main device for wireless communication
    • The Bomb
      • The GB machine used to decode the German enigma machine

  • Tokyo Rose
    • Generic name given by the allied forces
    • Given to a dozen women of American descent
    • Ive Toguri D’Agori-
  • Magic
    • Used by the US to break the Japanese diplomatic code
  • Cipher machine
    • Japans way of decoding their messages
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