WWII: The Home Front Bell-ringer: Read, “A Personal Voice” on page 562, and do one of the following in at least 5 sentences: Write a response to the letter.

WWII: The Home Front

Bell-ringer: Read, “A Personal Voice” on page 562, and do one of the following in at least 5 sentences:

Write a response to the letter as the husband

Write a similar letter to a loved one overseas

Selective Service

After Pearl Harbor, Japan boastedAmerica is now a 3rd rate powerTrembling in her shoes

With RAGE not fear

Selective Service5 million volunteersDraft expanded

10 million drafted

Military ExpandedWAAC (Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.Ridiculed the idea at first

• Later, employers couldn’t hire enough

Dramatic Contributions

300,000 Mexican Americans

13,000 Chinese Americans

33,000 Japanese Americans

25,000 Native Americans

Discrimination

Upon receiving his draft notice, one African American was quoted:

“Just carve on my tombstone, ‘Here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man.’”

Production Miracle

Auto plants tanks, planes, boats

Bedspread mosquito netting

Soft drink filled shells with explosives

Shipyards and defense plants expanded

Workforce6 million women

Employers feared they wouldn’t have the strength or stamina

• They were wrong

African Americans75% of employers refused to hire

• “Negroes will be considered only as janitors.”- General Manager of North American Aviation

Mobilization of ScientistsGerman scientists were successful in splitting uranium atoms, releasing massive amounts of energy

Einstein (German refugee) warned the president

Manhattan ProjectGoal was to produce an atomic bomb

Government Takes Control

See Chart on p. 567

War PlansChurchill spent 3 weeks at the White House planning strategies for the war with FDR

Roosevelt to Churchill• “It is fun,” he wrote, “to be in the same decade with you.”

Plan- Deal with Germany and Italy first, then hit Japan later

Battle of the AtlanticWolf Packs (U-Boats) destroyed carriers on their way to Great Britain

U.S. used convoys and airplanes to combat Wolf Packs

Success!

WWII Battles

Stalingrad

D-Day

Battle of the Bulge

Doolittle’s Raid

Midway

Coral Sea

Iwo Jima

Okinawa

What to include:Date of NewspaperEnvironment (cold? Rainy?)CasualtiesEvents surrounding the battleGoalsSignificant peoplePicturesOther news (sporting event?)

Using:PowerPointWordPublisherPaintI don’t care what you use, but it must be in digital format

30 points (HW)

Example

Author

Date

Pictures

Headlines

Other news

What’s missing?

Battle of StalingradMajor industrial center on the Volga River

Also symbolic, why?

Germans pushing toward Stalingrad for months

Winter cold stopped themSoviets launched counter-attack

Battle of Stalingrad

9/10 of city destroyed

Neither Stalin or Hitler wanted to back down

“Enemy at the Gates”

Battle of Stalingrad

1,100,000 Soviets dead

More than total U.S. dead

Turning Point

Soviets pushed west

North African FrontAllies chased the Desert Fox

Erwin Rommel, leader of the Afrika Korps

Victory in May 1943

Read Ernie Pyle’s writing on p. 572

Rommel pleads with Hitler to surrender after D-Day

Assassination attempt