thursday 4/29/10

today MR. bruns went over his power point and nick finised his over the eropean front. I have the great society-education for this week’s assigned blogs and for the next project I have the Policy of Containment: Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine for the cold war and me Alex nick andKody 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
    • D-Day-the invasion of Normandy operation overlord
      • Soldier practiced the invasion plan
      • We went up against the Atlantic wall
      • Internal invasion code named Neptune June 1944
      • Air assault by GB and US
      • The troops landed at 6 30
      • They wanted a full moon on high tide
      • The air support could not be used because it was cloudy
      • Deaths
        • Allied:120,000 men
        • Axis: 11,959 men
  • European Front
    • Battle of the bulge
      • October 1944
      • Allied powers won
      • Germans last chance to win the war
      • Germans lost 120000 troops 600 tanks 1600 planes

  • The Yalta Conference
  • The big 3
    • FDR- dieing of a heart condition
    • Churchill-head of a dying empire
    • Stalin-strongest
  • Located in the black sea port city of Yalta
  • FDR- wanted to build up a better relationship with Stalin so that the SU would like the US
  • Truman took over after FDR died
  • Agreements
    • Stalin- handing control of his European countries
    • Germany would be split into four zones controlled by the US, GB, France,and the Soviet union
    • The capital of Germany would also be spilt up into four zones controlled by the US,GB, France,and the Soviet union
  • VJ Day
    • Victory over Japan
    • We dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • Japan surrendered because of the atomic bomb drops and the soviet union invaded Manchuria
  • VE Day- victory in Europe day

Why the allies won and the effects

· Advantages-

o magic and the Code talkers

o more people

o more natural resources

o atomic bombs

1.natural resources

2.More allied soldiers the axis

3.codes-ultra magic

4.women worked factories

5.atomic bombs

6.we

7.Germany invading soviet union

8.Japan invading china

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