Bell Ringer 10/25/07

•Complete #4 Analyzing Visual Sources on p. 568. Answer both questions in complete sentences.

(7 min.)

December 7, 1941

Military Expands

• 5 million volunteered• Selective Service

provided 10 million• WAAC- Women’s

Auxiliary Army Corps; women served in non-combat positions

• Granted a salary but few of the benefits given to male soldiers

Industrial Production Surges

• Across the nation, factories were quickly converted to war production

• Automobile plants were re-tooled to produce airplanes, tanks, battleships

6 million new women workers

Discrimination

• Minorities were discriminated against in both the military and industry.

• 1 million African Americans

• 300,000 Mexicans• 25,000 Native

Americans

Protest

• March on Washington- July 1, 1941

• FDR, afraid of a problem, conceded.

• FDR issued an executive order calling on employers and unions to end racial discrimination in the workplace.

Scientists Mobilized

• Office of Scientific Research and Development

• Radar and sonar• DDT (combat lice)• Manhattan Project

Churchill and Roosevelt

• The two met shortly after Pearl Harbor

• Decided that Germany posed a greater threat than Japan

• Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike Hitler first

Battle of the Atlantic

• Hitler ordered U-boat raids along America’s east coast

• Tried to prevent food and supplies going overseas to the Allies

• By mid-1943 America had turned the tide in the Atlantic

Meanwhile……

German Army Pushes East

• August 1942• Blitzkrieg!• Brutal hand-to-hand

combat• Winter came• Soviets came back

with tanks• Held the Germans• Lost 1,100,000 Rus.

North Africa

• Map on p.572• November 1942• 107,000 Allied troops

landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers

• Chased the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps

Italy

• Allies captured Sicily in summer of 1943

• “Bloody Anzio” - battle that lasted four months

• 25,000 Allied dead• 30,000 Axis dead

African American Heroes

• Tuskegee Airmen (99th Pursuit Squadron)

• 92nd Infantry Division (the Buffaloes)

• Distinguished themselves heroically in Italy

The D-Day Invasion (map p. 575)

Largest Air, Sea, Land Assault

Homework• I WANT YOU TO DO

THIS…….

• p.577 #2 Taking Notes