World War II Movies
Patton Saving Private Ryan The Longest Day Letters from Iwo Jima Flags of Our Fathers The Pacific Band of Brothers Downfall (German) Life is Beautiful (Italian) Windtalkers Enemy at the Gates Casablanca Red Tails (on Tuskegee Air
Corps) The Best Years of Our Lives
The War by Ken Burns Thin Red Line Great Escape Pearl Harbor Schindler’s List Boy in the Striped Pajamas Stalag 17 Dirty Dozen The Pianist The Valkyrie Defiance Sound of Music Sarah’s Key Devil’s Arthmetic Inglorious B……
STAAR Terms—Study these for a quiz
TotalitarianismAppeasementBlitzkriegThird ReichLend LeasePearl HarborBataan Death MarchRationingD DayMidway HiroshimaMobilization
Yalta ConferenceV E DayV J DayUnited NationsOffice of War
InformationExecutive Order 9066Tuskegee AirmenFlying TigersNavajo Code TalkersFDR and TrumanRosie the RiveterG I Bill
The Holocaust,
Japanese Internment,
Manhattan Project
STAAR Objectives
Meetings
World War IISpecial Topics
Anti-Semitism—history
Diaspora after Roman occupation of Israel and Judah
Middle Ages—laws against Jews“Scapegoats” in literature and historyGhettos—walled communitiesMore diasporas from Spain (1492) and Russia
(1917)Pogroms19th century—Jewish immigration into Germany
Order of Events…
Mein Kampf published, 1927Hitler became chancellor, 1933Nuremberg Laws passed and enforcedExodus of many German JewsKrystallnacht, 1938Confinement to walled ghettosMobilization to concentration campsLabor and eventual elimination
From 1927 to 1945
Ignorance of factsThe ship, The St. LouisZyclon BDiscovery of camps by Americans and
RussiansEisenhower’s workWork of survivors
U.S.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/36quest1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?_r=1&
Any questions?
Enforcement began in September, 1942110,000 interned
Single largest forced movement in American history
All Civil Rights denied
Moved to holding areas and then camps surrounded by barbed wire
Issei—Japanese immigrants
Nisei—next generation—Japanese American children of immigrants
Sansei—third generation (and subsequent) Japanese-Americans
“One, Two, Three”
Landmark Supreme Court Case challenging internment
Decision determined that Japanese-Americans were safer in the camps away from other Americans during war
Overturned later
Official apologies and financial compensation paid in later years (Reagan and Clinton)
Korematsu v. United States
Japanese American Red Cross volunteer during attack at Pearl HarborU. S. Military service in EuropeSenator
Senator In0uye of Hawaii
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/ww2/threat/eo9066.htm
Any questions?
Who else has the bomb?
Who is trying to build the bomb?
Bombs are much more powerful today.
Nuclear weapons treaties—U.S. and Russia, 2013
Current concerns regarding atomic weapons
Militarism
Nationalism
Imperialism by Germany, Italy and Japan
Fascism in Europe
Alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan (Axis Powers)
Invasion of Poland by Germany
Causes of WWII
Fight aggressive dictatorships
Respond to the attack on our Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Rapid Mobilization and Industrialization
Domestic and international leadership of FDR and Truman
Bataan Death March
Multiple Fronts in Europe and Pacific
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Domestic and International Impact of WWII on the U.S.:
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
U.S. declared war on Japan
Japan’s allies—Germany and Italy declared war on U.S.
The U.S. had to fight a war on two fronts—Europe and The Pacific
The U.S. made the European front its first priority
Why did the U.S. join WWII?
Great Britain (England)--Churchill
France—De Gaulle
USSR/Soviet Union (Russia)—Stalin
These were our friends in WWI and we joined with them to fight the fascists in Italy and Nazis in Germany
Who were the U.S. allies in WWII?
Open a second front to fight Germany on its western side
This would relieve the Russians from fighting Germany alone on its eastern front
We opened the second front when we invaded France at Normandy
USSR needed their allies to…
Home FrontVictory Gardens
Mobilization
War Bonds
Women at Work
Volunteerism
Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l14WDZCnz-w
Disney, Dr. Seuss, Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Posters…
General Dwight D. Eisenhower--EuropeGeneral Douglas MacArthur--PacificAdmiral Chester Nimitz--Navy
General Omar BradleyGeneral George Patton
General George Marshall—Chief Military advisor to FDR and Truman—Chief of Staff
American Military Leaders
Tuskegee Airmen—integration
Flying Tigers
Navajo Code Talkers--encryption
Women in the Military and in the Factories
Minorities in the Military and in the Factories
Contributions to the War Effort
Review…The U.S. set up internment camps against
the___________________________
The Manhattan Project is when the U.S. built an _____________________________
The killing of 6 million Jews is called The ___________
President during WWII: a)Wilson b)Teddy Roosevelt c)FDR
Allied commander in Europe: a)Eisenhower b)Patton c)Bradley
Allied commander in Pacific: a)Nimitz b)Patton c)MacArthur
STAAR Practices
Name three totalitarian dictators in Europe:
Name the emperor of Japan.
Name the prime minister of Japan.Tojo
What event made England and France declare war on Germany?
WWI I Test Review
Recognize Major EventsD-DayVJ DayAtomic WarfareWomen at Work—Rosie the RiveterBondsRation CouponsIwo Jima
U.S. had first peace time conscription (draft) before Pearl Harbor—we were not fully prepared for war but we were not completely unprepared
Meetings—Casablanca, Tehran and YaltaFocus on defeating Germany first and Japan secondInternment of Nisei (Japanese American-born)Lend Lease sent to France, Great Britain, USSR,
ChinaEisenhower, Patton, Bradley ISMs—Fascism, Nazism, CommunismManhattan Project
STAAR Reminders
AP Supplement…Home FrontWar financed by war bondsIndustrial contracts made weapons and war
materialsWaste prevention oversight by Senator Truman of
MissouriMobilization—gathering and movement of troopsWomen— Rosie the Riveter and Norma Jean BakerScraps—saved all metal, rubber, nylonRationing—tires, gas, sugar, shoes, etc.Victory Gardens— pulling together‘’Loose lips sink ships ’’
Japanese Internment camps1944 election of FDR over DeweyG. I. Bill—provides money for returning GI’s to go
to college or start a business (GHW Bush etc.)POW camps—Gainesville, TXWar Brides—Japanese, German, British, …U.S.O. shows—Bob HopeTuskeegee Air CorpsWACS, WAVES, WASPS (see archives at TWU!)‘‘The Greatest Generation’’Cartoonist Bill Mauldin in Stars and Stripes
And…
Munichappeasement
Atlantic CharterLend-Lease
White House (Dec. 1941)concentrate on Europe first
Casablanca (January 1943)demanding unconditional surrender from Germany
Tehran (Nov. 1943)—The Big Threediscussed a United Nations and a second front
Yalta (Feb.1945)—Big Threediscussed the future of Eastern Europe—beginning of Cold War?
Potsdam (July 1945)—New Big Threediscussed UN, thebomb, USSR entering Pacific War
San Francisco—wrote United Nations charter
Meetings (Cause and Effect)
Yalta led to…Soviet occupation of
Eastern Europe
Soviet dominance in Eastern Germany and Berlin
Soviet-sponsored elections in Eastern Europe
Spread of communism in Eastern Europe
Potsdam ConferenceJuly, 1945
Postwar Europe, UN
USSR agreed to join Pacific War
Truman shared newsof atomic bomb
1. Choose a document to work with. Is it a primary or secondary source?
2. What “special topic” does it address? Example: The Holocaust, Japanese Internment, Manhattan Project, etc.
3. Write a title of the document (if there is one) and describe it: size, content, details
4. What have you learned about history from this document? Be specific.
Primary Source Assignment