World War II

1. World War II

2. Grading for the First Draft of the Research Assignment The grade for the first draft is pass/fail: Pass (A) - you've submitted a 3-page paper that analyzes images from both photographers Fail (F) - no paper, no images analyzed, or no comparison of two photographers Our comments will also include suggestions for revisions and a grade expressing where you are in terms of the second draft. So you will see: First draft: Pass Second draft so far: C (and a list of suggested revisions)

3. Office Hours Gabrielle: Next Weds, March 8, 4:30-5:30 PM, in the teaching assistants’ office on 10th floor of the LB building Please email Gabrielle if you plan to come--if many people want to come she will make her office hours longer. Elena: Usual office hours, Tu-Thu 3-4 PM and Weds. 4:30 to 5:30 PM Also by appointment.

4. Pearl Harbor > Events leading up to the attack • 1922 Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy • September 1931 Japan occupies Manchuria • March 1933 Adolf Hitler seizes power • May 1933 Japan quits League of Nations • 1936 Spanish Civil War against Franco • August 1937 Japan invades China • October 1937 FDR calls for international cooperation against aggression • March 1938 Germany annexes Austria • September 1938 Munich agreement lets Germany annex Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia • November 1938 Kristallnacht, Nazis attack Jews and destroy Jewish property • March 1939 Germany annexes remainder of Czechoslovaka • August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union sign nonagression pact • September 1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins • April-June 1940 Bliztkrieg (Germany conquers much of Western Europe) • September 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis powers) conclude a military alliance • September 1940 First peacetime draft in American history • November 1940 FDR elected for a third term • March 1941 Lend-Lease Act extends aid to Great Britain • May 1941 Germans secure the Balkans • June 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union • August 1941 The United States and Great Britain agree to the Atlantic Charter • December 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

5. Pearl Harbor > Antiwar labor pamphlet

6. Pearl Harbor > North American Aviation advertisement, Collier’s, 1942

7. Pearl Harbor > Omaha high school student’s fascist sticker, 1938

8. Pearl Harbor > US Ships during Pearl Harbor attack, 1941

9. Pearl Harbor > Pearl Harbor hero Doris (“Dorie”) Miller poster

10. Chronology > Some key events of World War II • December 1941 - Pearl Harbor • February 1942 - Executive Order mandates internment of Japanese Americans • May-June 1942 - US wins naval superiority in the Pacific • November 1942 - US lands in North Africa • January 1943 - Casablanca Conference announces unconditional surrender policy • February 1943 - Soviet victory over Germans in Stalingrad • May 1943 - German troops surrender in Africa • July 1943 - Allied invasion of Italy • June-August 1944 - US lands in Normandy; liberates Paris • November 1944 - FDR is elected to fourth term • February 1945 - Yalta conference renews US-Soviet alliance • February-June 1945 - US captures Iwo Jima and Okinawa • April 1945 - FDR dies; Harry Truman becomes president • May 1945 - Germany surrenders • August 1945 - US drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders

11. Morale > Anti-Nazi poster, 1942

12. Morale > Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on Collier’s cover, 1942

13. Morale > “Trust and Rely” Japanese poster, 1937

14. Experience > Cartoon from Yank: The Army Weekly, 1943

15. Experience > American soldier killed by mortar fire, 1944

16. Experience > Bill Maudlin, “Up Front,” Stars and Stripes, 1945 “Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners.”

17. Experience > Ben Hurwitz, inside a troop ship, 1943

18. Experience > Ben Hurwitz, going home after a pass in Naples, 1943

19. Pinups > Betty Grable

20. Pinups > Lena Horne, the most popular pinup among black soldiers

21. Sacrifice > Winchester poster urging sacrifice

22. Consumption > Cigarette ad in McCall’s, 1942

23. Four Freedoms > Freedom from Want

24. Four Freedoms > Freedom from Fear

25. Four Freedoms > Freedom to Worship

26. Four Freedoms > Freedom of Speech

27. Rationing > Collier’s cover, 1942

28. Rationing > 1943 poster on conserving fuel

29. Industry > Job listings board in Detroit, July 1941

30. Industry > “It’s Boats, Boats, Boats!” OWI poster

31. Industry > “America’s Answer! Production” Office for Emergency Management poster, 1942

32. Women > Rosie the Riveter Poster

33. Women > McCall’s cover, September 1942

34. Women > After work in a Richmond, California, shipyard

35. Women > War Manpower Commission recruiting posters

36. Double V > Poster for a Double V campaign of 1942

37. Double V > “Private Joe Louis Says” poster

38. Double V > An African American GI escorts captured German soldiers

39. Double V > Members of the United Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Employees Union, Detroit, 1942

40. Double V > Thurgood Marshall, who won the “whites-only” Democratic primaries case in 1944 and Brown v. Board of Education in 1954

41. Double V > March on Washington Movement Flyer, ca. 1941 and a photograph of March on Washington, 1963

42. Double V > Policemen arresting women during the riots in Harlem, 1943

43. Double V > A leaflet disctributed by the Seven Mile/Fenelon Neighborhood Association in February 1942

44. Double V > A black homeowner protects his property near the Sojourner neighborhood

45. Double V > Detroit police arrests a group of blacks, February 1942

46. Double V > Police try to disburse a crowd of blacks at Sojourner Truth Housing Project, February 1942

47. Double V > The Detroit Riot, June 21, 1943

48. Double V > White mob moves up Woodward, early hours

49. Double V > Rioters overturn a car

50. Double V > The same car set on fire