wednesday 4/21/10



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 Germanywould have to fight a two sided war.

· Major general

o Britain- mountgumry

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

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