WWII: The Home Front Bell-ringer: Read, “A Personal Voice” on page 562, and do one of the following in at least 5 sentences: Write a response to the letter as the husband Write a similar letter to a loved one overseas

Selective Service After Pearl Harbor, Japan boasted America is now a 3 rd rate power Trembling in her shoes With RAGE not fear

Selective Service 5 million volunteers Draft expanded 10 million drafted Military Expanded WAAC (Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. Ridiculed the idea at first Later, employers couldn’t hire enough

Dramatic Contributions 300,000 Mexican Americans 13,000 Chinese Americans 33,000 Japanese Americans 25,000 Native Americans

Discrimination Upon receiving his draft notice, one African American was quoted: “Just carve on my tombstone, ‘Here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man.’”

Production Miracle Auto plants  tanks, planes, boats Bedspread  mosquito netting Soft drink  filled shells with explosives Shipyards and defense plants expanded

Workforce 6 million women Employers feared they wouldn’t have the strength or stamina They were wrong African Americans 75% of employers refused to hire “Negroes will be considered only as janitors.”- General Manager of North American Aviation

Mobilization of Scientists German scientists were successful in splitting uranium atoms, releasing massive amounts of energy Einstein (German refugee) warned the president Manhattan Project Goal was to produce an atomic bomb

Government Takes Control See Chart on p. 567

War Plans Churchill spent 3 weeks at the White House planning strategies for the war with FDR Roosevelt to Churchill “It is fun,” he wrote, “to be in the same decade with you.” Plan- Deal with Germany and Italy first, then hit Japan later

Battle of the Atlantic Wolf Packs (U-Boats) destroyed carriers on their way to Great Britain U.S. used convoys and airplanes to combat Wolf Packs Success!

WWII Battles Stalingrad D-Day Battle of the Bulge Doolittle’s Raid Midway Coral Sea Iwo Jima Okinawa

What to include: Date of Newspaper Environment (cold? Rainy?) Casualties Events surrounding the battle Goals Significant people Pictures Other news (sporting event?)

Using: PowerPoint Word Publisher Paint I don’t care what you use, but it must be in digital format 30 points (HW)

Example Author Date Pictures Headlines Other news What’s missing?

Battle of Stalingrad Major industrial center on the Volga River Also symbolic, why? Germans pushing toward Stalingrad for months Winter cold stopped them Soviets launched counter-attack

Battle of Stalingrad 9/10 of city destroyed Neither Stalin or Hitler wanted to back down “Enemy at the Gates”

Battle of Stalingrad 1,100,000 Soviets dead More than total U.S. dead Turning Point Soviets pushed west

North African Front Allies chased the Desert Fox Erwin Rommel, leader of the Afrika Korps Victory in May 1943 Read Ernie Pyle’s writing on p. 572 Rommel pleads with Hitler to surrender after D- Day Assassination attempt