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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
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Bell Ringer 10/25/07 • Complete #4 Analyzing Visual Sources on p. 568. Answer both questions in complete sentences. (7 min.)
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
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
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
Homework • I WANT YOU TO DO THIS……. • p.577 #2 Taking Notes