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WORLD WAR II. PART TWO. MOBILIZING FOR DEFENSE. AMERICA JOINS THE WAR EFFORT. SELECTIVE SERVICE. 5 MILLION VOLUNTEERED 10 MILLION DRAFTED. WOMENS AUXILIARY ARMY CORPS (WAC or WAAC). WOMEN WERE PLACED IN NON-COMBAT POSITIONS SERVED AS NURSES, AMBULANCE DRIVERS, RADIO OPERATORS, AND PILOTS. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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WORLD WAR II
PART TWO
MOBILIZING FOR DEFENSE
AMERICA JOINS THE WAR EFFORT
SELECTIVE SERVICE
5 MILLION VOLUNTEERED10 MILLION DRAFTED
WOMENS AUXILIARY ARMY CORPS (WAC or WAAC)
WOMEN WERE PLACED IN NON-COMBAT POSITIONS
SERVED AS NURSES, AMBULANCE DRIVERS, RADIO OPERATORS, AND PILOTS
DRAMATIC CONTRIBUTIONS
33,000 JAPANESE AMERICANS JOINED
25,000 NATIVE AMERICANS (NAVAJO CODE TALKERS)
INDUSTRIAL RESPONSE
AUTOMOTIVE PLANTS NOW MAKING TANKS, PLANES, BOATS, AND COMMAND CARS
SOFT DRINK COMPANIES BEGAN FILLING SHELLS WITH EXPLOSIVES
Pinball machine companies make armor piercing bullets
LABORS CONTRIBUTION
WOMEN AND MINORITIES WORKED IN FACTORIES
Make less money and only temporary
MOBILIZATION OF SCIENCE
OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (OSDR)
DEVELOPED RADAR AND SONARDVELOPED PESTICIDES LIKE
DDT TO FIGHT LICE
PENICILLINWORKING ON ATOMIC BOMBMANHATTAN PROJECT- THE
EXTENSIVE CAMPAIGN TO BUILD AN A-BOMB
MANHATTAN PROJECT- GadgetAlamogordo, New Mexico
ECONOMIC CONTROLS
OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION- FROZE WAGES AND PRICES, RATIONED MEAT, BUTTER, SUGAR, ETC.
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD- RATIONED FUEL AND MATERIAL VITAL TO THE WAR
Victory Gardens
Grow Your Own!! Save Money & Conserve Food
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ISSUED WAR BONDS TO HELP PAY FOR THE WAR
THE WAR FOR EUROPE
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
GERMANY CONTROLLED 9/10 OF THE CITY BUT WAS STOPPED BY A SEVERE WINTER
SOVIETS REGROUPED AND TRAPPED THE GERMANS INSIDE
SOVIETS LOST A MILLION SOLDIERS IN THE BATTE
NORTH AFRICAN FRONT
OPERATION TORCH- AN INVASION OF AXIS-CONTROLLED NORTH AFRICA
COMMANDED BY DWIGHT EISENHOWER
AMERICAN FORCES DEFEATED GERMANY IN 1943
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
AMERICAN TROOPS EASILY DEFEATED ITALY
MUSSOLINI STRIPPED AND REMOVED FROM POWER
THE BATTLE OF “BLOODY ANZIO”- HITLER SENT IN TROOPS TO FIGHT THE AMERICANS IN ITALY
BLOODY ANZIO
25,000 ALLIED SOLDIERS KILLEDITALY DID NOT COMPLETELY
COLLAPSE UNTIL 1945
THE ALLIES LIBERATE EUROPE
D-DAY
OPERATION OVERLORD- THE INVASION OF FRANCE
A FORCE OF THREE MILLION ALLIED TROOPS WITH MOUNTAINS OF MILITARY SUPPLIES
D-Day (OPERATION OVERLORD)
THE LARGEST MILLITARY OPERATION
IN HISTORY
TO KEEP PLANS A SECRET ALLIES SET UP A HUGE PHANTOM ARMY WITH FALSE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS 150 MILES AWAY
D-DAY: JUNE 6, 1944
PARATROOPERS LANDED BEHIND ENEMY LINES AND WERE FOLLOWED BY SEABORNE SOLDIERS
THE LARGEST LAND-SEA-AIR-OPERATION IN ARMY HISTORY
DESPITE HEAVY CASUALITIES THE ALLIES HELD THE BEACHHEADS AND AN 80 MILE STRIP OF FRANCE AFTER 7 DAYS
FIGHTING IN EUROPE
HARSHEST CONDITIONS OF ANY WAR EVER FOUGHT
FOX HOLES- HOLES THAT SOLDIERS DUG AND THEN FOUGHT OUT OF
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
LAST ATTEMPT BY THE GERMANSTANK DIVISIONS DIVIDED BY
BRITISH AND US TROOPSBATTLE RAGED FOR A MONTH120,000 GERMANS DIEDFROM THIS POINT ON THE NAZI’S
COULD DO LITTLE MORE THAN RETREAT
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
SOVIETS AND THE US CLOSED IN ON GERMANY
HITLER SHOT HIMSELFMAY 8, 1945- ALLIES CELEBRATE
V-E DAY: VICTORY IN EUROPE FDR DIED OF A STROKEHARRY S. TRUMAN BECOMES
PRESIDENT
THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
JAPANESE ADVANCES
CREATED AN EMPIRE BY TAKING OVER SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN THE ASIAN MAINLAND AND PACIFIC OCEAN
AMERICAN FORCED TO SURRENDER IN A BATTLE FOR THE PHILIPPINES
MACARTHUR PLEGED “I SHALL RETURN”
DOOLITTLES RAID
16 BOMBERS LED BY COLONEL JAMES DOOLITTLE BOMBED TOKYO
LIFTED AMERICAN SPIRITS AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL AND WEAKENED THE SPIRITS OF THE JAPANESE
ALLIES STARTED A PLAN OF “ISLAND HOPPING” TOWARD JAPAN
BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
FIGHTING DONE BY AIRPLANES FROM CARRIERS
JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO TAKE AUSTRALIA
NOT A SINGLE SHOT BY SURFACE SHIPS
NOT A U.S. VICTORY BUT WE FORCED THEM TO RETREAT
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
STATEGIC ISLAND NORTHWEST OF HAWAII
ALLIES BROKE THE JAPENSE CODE AND KNEW THE JAPNESESE WERE COMING
CHESTER NIMITZ- COMMANDER OF AMERICAN NAVAL FORCES IN THE PACIFIC
AMERICANS LAUNCHED A SURPRISE ATTACK
DESTROYED FOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, CRUISER, AND 250 PLANES
AMERICA “AVENGED PEARL HARBOR”
THE JAPANESE DEFENSE
KAMIKAZE- SUICIDE PLANE ATTACK IN WHICH JAPANESE PILOTS CRASHED THEIR BOMB-LADEN PLANES INTO ALLIED SHIPS
BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF- US DESTOYED 3 BATTLESHIPS, 4 CARRIERS, 13 CRUISERS, AND 500 PLANES
IWO JIMA
CRITICAL TO THE U.S. AS A BASE TO LAUNCH HEAVY BOMBERS
MOST HEAVILY DEFENDED SPOT ON EARTH
21,000 JAPANESE TROOPS ENTRENCHED IN TUNNELS AND CAVES
JAPAN MAINLAND
BATTLE OF OKINAWA
APRIL 1945JAPANESE LAUNCHED 1900
KAMIKAZE ATTACKSSIMILAR TO IWA JIMA7,600* U.S. DEATHS110,000* JAPANESE KILLED
JAPAN MAINLAND
MANHATTAN PROJECT
AUGUST 6, 1945Hiroshima B-29 NAMED THE ENOLA GAY
RELEASED AN ATOMIC BOMB CODE NAMED “LITTLE BOY”
43 SECONDS EVERYTHING IN THE CITY TURNED TO DUST
THREE DAYS LATER A SECOND BOMB(“FAT MAN”) WAS DROPPED ON NAGASAKI
200,000 PEOPLE DIED AS A RESULT OF THE BLAST AND RADIATION THAT LINGERED FOR YEARS
ONLY 200 JAPANESE SURVIED6,000 U.S. MARINES KILLED
