We had blog discussion today
US History: Students will be given on WWII topic from below to research and write a blog about.
-The US Homefront
- Women's role-women took over jobs for a lot of the men. They were allowed in the military but they weren't allowed to use guns. Rosie the Riveter represented women workers during WWII. 90% search light operators were women. Farm workers typists waitresses bus drivers taxi drivers elevator operators teachers conductors search light operators. WASP Women's army service pilots
- Factories-War Production Board-mass production of goods. produced more than all other allied powers combined. National war labor board-Together we win.
- War bonds-how we paid for the war. every person has to see how much their worth. investment. give the gov. money and you get it back with interest.
- Japanese relocation camps-we didn't trust Japanese American citizens. They were forced to sell most of their belongings and forced to go to relocation camps. Not like concentration camps.
- Propaganda-posters movies music. Buy War Bonds. Enlist. Make US look good and Germany look bad. Do your part today.
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration-controlled distribution of scarce resources. food clothes gas.
- Hollywood in WWII-proganda. designed to make US look good and the Axis look bad. get every one to do their part.
- The story of "Kilroy was here"
US Fighting:
-US in Africa-took place in North Africa. Allied powers and France. Great Britain, U.S. There were a lot of resources that Italy had control of. started in 1940 lasted until 1943 operation Torch. Morocco. Tunisia continuation of Operation Torch. Operation torch=amphibious landing in Morocco, invasion in Africa. Erwin Rommel-the Desert Fox. Bernard Montgomery. George Patton.
-US in Italy-first moved into Sicily. really bloody fighting. mainly German forces. Italy became free 1945. Apennines mountains.
-D-Day-june 6 largest operation. invasion of France. Atlantic Wall. we sent false information. invasion lasted about a month. 54000 vehicles landed very successful 3000 casualties. Omar Bradley-General
-US bombing of Germany
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering-we could turn our attention to the pacific theatre
-Battle of Coral Sea-Island hopping,it was a draw, but really more of a U.S. victory because we broke our losing streak.
-Battle of Midway-most famous battle in the pacific theatre. Chester Nimitz. month after coral sea. Because of Magic we knew the attack was coming. Resounding victory. turning point.
-Battle of Iwo Jima-6821 U.S deaths famous flag raising picture
-Battle of the Philippines-we had control of it. Baton death march. MacArthur's return
-Battle of Okinawa
-Manhattan Project- development of the A-bomb. Oppenheimer and Groves. Los Alamos found by Oppenheimer. there was a soviet spy. the Bomb was called the gadget. Alamogordo New Mexico detonation of the first bomb. was explained to the press as the explosion of an ammunition dump. code name for the test bomb was trinity. Unlike Hiroshima and Nagasaki where they were dropped by airplanes, the test bombs were dropped from a tower. after the trinity test our attention turned to Japan.
-Hiroshima bombing-B-29 super fortress was designed for the Atomic Bombs. Pilot Paul Tibbits. Plane Enola Gay. Little Boy was the name of the bomb dropped. Most of the city was impacted by fires. the blast killed a lot of people but fires did a lot of the damage further out. set to explode before it hit the ground. Photograph plane was lost. Atomic shadow because of the extreme heat shadows of objects and people were left. Radiation sickness 80000 died instantaneously.
-Nagasaki bombing-Fat man was a plutonium bomb. Almost ran out of gasoline. went into a mountainous area. almost crash landed. did the job of ending the war.
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering-may 8th VE day 45 august 14 or august 15 VJ day. Hiro Hito surrendered. transition into cold war. Democracy vs Communism Start of cold war.
-Yalta Conference 1945 Yalta Conference. Germany would be broken into four occupation zones US, GB France USSR Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe Stalin promised to join war against Japan after war with Germany was over Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United Nations.
-Potsdam Conference-Temporarily dived Vietnam at the 17th parallel Japan would surrender to Great Britain in the south and China in the north. Goals of the occupation of Germany demilitarization denazification democratization Division of Germany and Berlin and Austria into four occupation zones Prosecution of Nazi war criminals Reverse all German annexations in Europe including Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, and the westernmost parts of Poland. Reduce Germanay in size by approximately 25% campared to its 1937 borders Removal of the German populations remaining beyond the new eastern borders of Germany Agreement on war reparations to the Soviet Union.
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