1. business Assignments due: WWII test: Friday March 3
Values in war ranking sheet
WWII Film reflection
WWII test: Friday March 3
business

2. Review- WWII in Europe D-Day (June 6 1944)
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)
Battle of the Atlantic
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Operation Torch
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Review- WWII in Europe

3. How did the allies fight through Europe?
What was the experience like for a US soldier?

4. Double V Campaign African Americans in military
At first, just noncombat
When in combat, segregated
Double V Campaign- double victory
Victory at war
Victory against racism at home
Double V Campaign

5. Double V Campaign Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow What is the message?
Anti-immigrant, foreigner, African Americans
Lynchings, discrimination
Jim Crow
Laws that segregated races
What is the message?
Double V Campaign

6. Case study: tuskegee airmen
99th Pursuit Squadron- all-black pilots
Fought successfully in Sicily and Italy
Won awards for aerial combat against Luftwaffe
Case study: tuskegee airmen

7. Case study: Buffaloes 92nd Infantry Division- Buffaloes
Saw heavy combat in Italy
3,200 casualties
Case study: Buffaloes

8. What was difficult about being an African American fighting in WWII?
Watch the clips and reflect on this question, using examples and quotes from the clips in your answer.
Source reflection

9. Minorities in the military
Latinos- between 250,000 and 500,000
Most from Mexico, Puerto Rico
African Americas- ~1,500,000
Asian Americans- at least 13,000
Minorities in the military

10. After D-Day Within a month of D-Day, Allies landed a million troops
July Allies make a gap in German line of defense
Can fight through France
After D-Day

11. After D-Day

12. Allies Gain Ground
August American troops reach Seine river, south of Paris
French resistance quickly joins
August Paris liberated

13. September 1944- Allies freed France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Where’s next?
France Liberated

14. Battle of the Bulge Invasion stalled during Battle of the Bulge
Dec Jan 1945
Desperate German last-gasp offensive
Germans broke through American defenses
Between Belgium and Germany

15. Battle of the Bulge

18. Battle of the Bulge Battle lasted a month in Belgian winter
Germans pushed back to where they started
Lost men, equipment they couldn’t replace
Could do little but retreat after
Battle of the Bulge

20. 1945 Early months of 1945- Allied troops fight into Germany
April 25, Russian army take Berlin (capital)
April 30- Hitler commits suicide
May 8- V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day
What happens now?

21. WWII (Europe) Map Fill out front page of map worksheet
Just Europe maps
WWII (Europe) Map