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
The Yalta Conference
§ The big 3
o FDR- dieing of a heart condition
o Churchill-head of a dying empire
o 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
o Stalin- handing control of his European countries
o Germany would be split into four zones controlled by the US, GB, France, and the Soviet union
o The capital of Germany would also be spilt up into four zones controlled by the US, GB, France, andthe 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
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