2. Do Now 3/1 What are the majors countries involved in WWII? What are the two “sides” How many people died total? (if you don’t know, guess!) Objective End SWBAT analyze propaganda from WWII and critique Japanese internment camps.

4. THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II

5. December 7, 1941 This causes the US to enter WWII

6. The Situation: 1941 The Allies The AxisNeutral Occupied WAR

7. The Situation: 1941 The Allies The Axis Occupied

9. THE WAR FOR EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA Days after Pearl Harbor, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived at the White House and spent three weeks working out war plans with FDR Churchill and FDR decided to focus on defeating Hitler first and then turn their attention to Japan

10. BATTLE OF STALINGRAD For weeks the Germans pressed in on Stalingrad Then winter set in and the Germans were wearing summer uniforms The Germans surrendered in January of 1943 Although the USSR won the battle, marking a major defeat of the Germans the Soviets lost more than 1 million men in the battle (more than twice the number of deaths the U.S. suffered in all the war) Wounded in the Battle of Stalingrad

11. TUSKEGEE AIRMEN Among the men who fought in Italy were pilots of the all-black 99 th squadron – the Tuskegee Airmen The all-black pilots made numerous effective strikes against Germany and won two distinguished Unit Citations

12. On May 31, 1943, the 99 th Squadron, the first group of African-American pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute, arrived in North Africa

13. D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 D-Day was the largest land-sea-air operation in military history Despite air support, German retaliation was brutal – especially at Omaha Beach Within a month, the Allies had landed 1 million troops, 567,000 tons of supplies and 170,000 vehicles D-Day was an amphibious landing – soldiers going from sea to land

14. OMAHA BEACH 6/6/44

15. Landing at Normandy

16. Planes drop paratroopers behind enemy lines at Normandy, France

17. Losses were extremely heavy on D-Day

18. LIBERATION OF DEATH CAMPS While the British and Americans moved westward into Germany, the Soviets moved eastward into German-controlled Poland The Soviets discovered many death camps that the Germans had set up within Poland The Americans also liberated Nazi death camps within Germany

19. ALLIES TAKE BERLIN; HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE By April 25, 1945, the Soviet army had stormed Berlin In his underground headquarters in Berlin, Hitler prepared for the end On April 29, he married his longtime girlfriend Eva Braun then wrote a last note in which he blamed the Jews for starting the war and his generals for losing it The next day he gave poison to his wife and shot himself

20. V-E DAY General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich On May 8, 1945, the Allies celebrated V-E Day – victory in Europe Day The war in Europe was finally over

21. Famous picture of an American soldier celebrating the end of the war

22. FDR DIES; TRUMAN PRESIDENT-1945 President Roosevelt did not live to see V-E Day On April 12, 1945, he suffered a stroke and died– his VP Harry S Truman became the nation’s 33rd president

24. Internment Camps Former horse stalls converted for temporary occupation by Japanese American internees at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942

26. This Means YOU

27. American women contributed to the war effort by working in munitions factories.

30. PROPAGANDA Gallery walk. -Number your paper from 1-7 -Examine each US propaganda poster -Put the poster in one of the following categories: Produce, Sacrifice, Hate/Fear -In one sentence write what you think the meaning/message of the propaganda is. 10 minutes

31. ROSIE the Riveter Symbolic of Female Munitions Workers

39. In a Nutshell… SHUT UP PRODUCE SACRIFICE HATE/FEAR

40. Internment Camps Read 594-595 and answer 1. Why did Roosevelt order the internment of Japanese Americans? 2. Where was the internment done? 3. What was internment? 4-5. The two Geography skill builder questions on 594.

41. Think-Pair-Share Exit ticket Were Japanese internment camps fair? Why or why not? Does it remind you of anything else?