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World War II
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Grading for the First Draft of the Research Assignment The grade for the first draft is pass/fail: Pass (A) - you've submitted a 3-page paper that analyzes images from both photographers Fail (F) - no paper, no images analyzed, or no comparison of two photographers Our comments will also include suggestions for revisions and a grade expressing where you are in terms of the second draft. So you will see: First draft: Pass Second draft so far: C (and a list of suggested revisions)
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Office Hours Gabrielle: Next Weds, March 8, 4:30-5:30 PM, in the teaching assistants’ office on 10th floor of the LB building Please email Gabrielle if you plan to come--if many people want to come she will make her office hours longer. Elena: Usual office hours, Tu-Thu 3-4 PM and Weds. 4:30 to 5:30 PM Also by appointment.
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Pearl Harbor > Events leading up to the attack 1922 Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy September 1931 Japan occupies Manchuria March 1933 Adolf Hitler seizes power May 1933 Japan quits League of Nations 1936 Spanish Civil War against Franco August 1937 Japan invades China October 1937 FDR calls for international cooperation against aggression March 1938 Germany annexes Austria September 1938 Munich agreement lets Germany annex Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia November 1938 Kristallnacht, Nazis attack Jews and destroy Jewish property March 1939 Germany annexes remainder of Czechoslovaka August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union sign nonagression pact September 1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins April-June 1940 Bliztkrieg (Germany conquers much of Western Europe) September 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis powers) conclude a military alliance September 1940 First peacetime draft in American history November 1940 FDR elected for a third term March 1941 Lend-Lease Act extends aid to Great Britain May 1941 Germans secure the Balkans June 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union August 1941 The United States and Great Britain agree to the Atlantic Charter December 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor > Antiwar labor pamphlet
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Pearl Harbor > North American Aviation advertisement, Collier’s, 1942
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Pearl Harbor > Omaha high school student’s fascist sticker, 1938
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Pearl Harbor > US Ships during Pearl Harbor attack, 1941
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Pearl Harbor > Pearl Harbor hero Doris (“Dorie”) Miller poster
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Chronology > Some key events of World War II December 1941 - Pearl Harbor February 1942 - Executive Order mandates internment of Japanese Americans May-June 1942 - US wins naval superiority in the Pacific November 1942 - US lands in North Africa January 1943 - Casablanca Conference announces unconditional surrender policy February 1943 - Soviet victory over Germans in Stalingrad May 1943 - German troops surrender in Africa July 1943 - Allied invasion of Italy June-August 1944 - US lands in Normandy; liberates Paris November 1944 - FDR is elected to fourth term February 1945 - Yalta conference renews US-Soviet alliance February-June 1945 - US captures Iwo Jima and Okinawa April 1945 - FDR dies; Harry Truman becomes president May 1945 - Germany surrenders August 1945 - US drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders
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Morale > Anti-Nazi poster, 1942
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Morale > Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on Collier’s cover, 1942
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Morale > “Trust and Rely” Japanese poster, 1937
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Experience > Cartoon from Yank: The Army Weekly, 1943
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Experience > American soldier killed by mortar fire, 1944
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Experience > Bill Maudlin, “Up Front,” Stars and Stripes, 1945 “Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners.”
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Experience > Ben Hurwitz, inside a troop ship, 1943
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Experience > Ben Hurwitz, going home after a pass in Naples, 1943
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Pinups > Betty Grable
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Pinups > Lena Horne, the most popular pinup among black soldiers
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Sacrifice > Winchester poster urging sacrifice
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Consumption > Cigarette ad in McCall’s, 1942
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Four Freedoms > Freedom from Want
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Four Freedoms > Freedom from Fear
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Four Freedoms > Freedom to Worship
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Four Freedoms > Freedom of Speech
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Rationing > Collier’s cover, 1942
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Rationing > 1943 poster on conserving fuel
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Industry > Job listings board in Detroit, July 1941
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Industry > “It’s Boats, Boats, Boats!” OWI poster
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Industry > “America’s Answer! Production” Office for Emergency Management poster, 1942
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Women > Rosie the Riveter Poster
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Women > McCall’s cover, September 1942
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Women > After work in a Richmond, California, shipyard
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Women > War Manpower Commission recruiting posters
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Double V > Poster for a Double V campaign of 1942
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Double V > “Private Joe Louis Says” poster
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Double V > An African American GI escorts captured German soldiers
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Double V > Members of the United Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Employees Union, Detroit, 1942
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Double V > Thurgood Marshall, who won the “whites-only” Democratic primaries case in 1944 and Brown v. Board of Education in 1954
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Double V > March on Washington Movement Flyer, ca. 1941 and a photograph of March on Washington, 1963
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Double V > Policemen arresting women during the riots in Harlem, 1943
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Double V > A leaflet disctributed by the Seven Mile/Fenelon Neighborhood Association in February 1942
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Double V > A black homeowner protects his property near the Sojourner neighborhood
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Double V > Detroit police arrests a group of blacks, February 1942
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Double V > Police try to disburse a crowd of blacks at Sojourner Truth Housing Project, February 1942
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Double V > The Detroit Riot, June 21, 1943
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Double V > White mob moves up Woodward, early hours
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Double V > Rioters overturn a car
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Double V > The same car set on fire
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Zoot suit > Clyde Duncan from Gainsville, VA, in the New York Times, 1943 and jazz musician Cab Calloway, 1943
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Zoot suit > Cartoon, Mercury Herald and News, April 25, 1943
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Zoot suit > Los Angeles police officer pretends to clip the hair of a zoot-suiter; headline from Los Angeles Examiner, 1942
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Zoot suit > Mexican Americans stripped of zoot suits during the riots, Life, 1943
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Zoot suit > Sailor arrested during the riots, Los Angeles Daily News, 1943
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Internment > Map of Japanese-American Internment Camps
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Internment > “How to Tell Chinese from a Jap,” from an Army manual
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Internment > Inside the fence of an internment camp
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Internment > Fred Korematsu with a letter of apology from the White House
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