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What to do: You need a writing utensil. CHECK YOURSELF- Things that should have been turned in: ◦ 4 pictures from Home front (Friday) ◦ Questions from Pacific Theater (Tuesday)
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Video During video you will have time to complete the work you may need to turn in
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World War II Practice Using your knowledge and notes, analyze the quotes to answer the questions.
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World War II Test Review
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Terms Homefront- supported war effort by conserving natural resources, or rationing, and buying war bonds Enlisting- enrolling in the armed services
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Terms Rationing- limited products/goods so that the military could use them Victory Gardens- produce vegetables/fruits to show support for war effort
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Terms War Bonds- helped fund the war Executive Order 9066- relocated Japanese Americans to protect from possible espionage or sabotage Multiple fronts- when the military was attacking from different directions Manhattan Project- secret project to develop the atomic bomb
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Terms Atomic bombs- the use of splitting an uranium atom to release immense energy (Albert Einstein) Office of War Information (OWI)- created advertisements to tell people how to support the war effort (Ex. War bonds)
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Terms Propaganda- information used to promote a political cause Island hopping- strategy the U.S. used in the Pacific to advance through Japanese territory Navajo Code Talkers- native Navajo language was thought to be a secret code by the Japanese military, they could not crack it
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People Impact on women- found employment in factories that were traditionally given to men. Impact on African-Americans- found employment, Tuskegee Airmen, wanted to serve their country in battle.
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People Albert Einstein- scientist that created atomic bomb Tuskegee Airmen- a group of African American military pilots that fought during World War II Chester Nimitz- commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet (Navy) Douglas MacArthur- commander of the Pacific (Army)
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People George Patton- led the invasion of North Africa and Italy Dwight Eisenhower- commander of the Allied forces in Europe Omar Bradley- leader of D-Day invasion
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People Foreign Policy during WWII- started neutral ended with military support on a multiple front war ◦ Franklin D. Roosevelt- president during most of World War II, used the “Cash and Carry” and “Lend-Lease” during neutrality *died during WWII ◦ Harry S Truman- president at the end of WWII, dropped the atomic bomb on Japan to save American lives and lower casualties *Should we have dropped the bomb?
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Events Holocaust- imprisonment of “inferior” people- ex. Jews, homosexuals, Poles, Slavs Pearl Harbor- cause of US involvement in WWII and to stop aggression from Axis Powers
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Events D-Day Invasion- invasion of Normandy, France 1944, allowed Allied forces to open a new front in the war Bataan Death March- US soldiers (POWs) had to march with no water, proved the U.S. was focused on Europe first
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Events Battle of Midway- turning point in Pacific and made Japan on the defensive Korematsu v. United States- found internment camps for Japanese constitutional
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Questions Why did World War II end the Great Depression? ◦ Production of goods for the military created job opportunities
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Questions Describe the homefront and how people supported the war effort? The home front meant the US, or “back home” where soldiers were not fighting
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