1. Bell Ringer
What was the Holocaust?
What did Executive order 9066 do?

2. CH 34-37: World War II- Part II

3. Pearl Harbor
: Japan had been conquering large portions of the Pacific in search of raw materials
The US attempted to curb Japanese aggression by Japanese enemies, and freezing their money in US banks
Dec Japan would launch a surprise attack on the US Naval Base located at Pearl Harbor Hawaii (2,400 dead, 1,200 wounded, 300 aircraft, 8 Battle Ships)
The next day FDR asked for Congress to declared war on Japan, they would (82-0 Senate, House)
Dec Germany & Italy declared war on the US

4. Executive Order 9066
In 1942 FDR would issue Executive Order 9066 which stated that “designated personnel” could be removed from designated “military areas”
Designated Personnel = Japanese
Military Area= Whole West Coast
This was fought in the Supreme Court case Korematsu v United States. By a vote of 6-3 the Justices determined that “personal rights could be restricted if they posed a public threat.”

5. Internment Camps
As a result over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in temporary camps.
2/3 of the interned were Nisei, or 2nd generation Japanese born in America (Citizens)
Their businesses, homes, and property were all forfeit.

6. Mexican Americans in WWII
Racial Tension between Mexicans and Whites rose up during WWII.
Mexican neighborhoods were self sufficient, and distrust grew between the cultures
Violence broke out known as the Zoot Suit Riots
During these riots sailors and marines would go looking for young Mexicans to fight, and the police did little to stop it.
Those Mexican Americans who did enlist in WWII often fought with distinction and great pride.
The group tasked with guarding the Atomic Bomb were Mexican Americans.

7. V for Victory & Double V
Churchill would popularize the idea of V for Victory
In the States Black leaders would start the Double V Campaign.
They wanted America to win a victory over Hitler abroad, and against racism at home

9. Tuskegee Airmen
As a part of the Double V Campaign black men were trained to be pilots near Tuskegee Alabama
While these pilots were originally given unimportant assignments their captain constantly fought for them to get a fair chance
When Bomber Pilots complained of their escorts leaving them to be attacked the Tuskegee Airmen volunteered for the high risk assignment.
They would successful protect bombers, were often requested, and became a highly decorated unit

10. Native Americans in WWII
Indians volunteered at an astounding rate for WWII (for every 1 drafted 1.5 volunteered)
Some 44,000 Native Americans served
Indians were well respected by their fellow soldiers as the idea of the “fierce Indian warrior” was ingrained in US culture
The role of Navajo Indians as code talkers in the Pacific Theater is pointed to as one of the reasons we defeated the Japanese

11. Women in WWII
Women (again) filled the labor gap left by men who were drafted.
Women became welders, mechanics, lumberjacks, lawyers, architects, physicists…
2 Million women worked in “heavy industry”
Women also served in active roles in the military freeing up more men for fighting: WACs (Army- served on battle field), SPARS (C. GUARD), WAVES (Navy)

12. International Concern for Jews
Nations of the world were aware of increased anti-Semitism in German controlled areas
In 1938 Hitler authorized Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass.” Nazi supporters destroyed Jewish run businesses, synagogues, and community centers
Some 30,000 Jews (mostly community leaders) were arrested and sent to concentration camps
Reliable information about “death camps” would not reach the American public until 1942
International Concern for Jews

13. The Russian military would push towards Germany in the East, and Hitler’s army was trapped in an increasingly small space.
It was only once the Russians liberated Poland that many of the death camps were discovered, and the scale of the genocide was understood.
Reports of “living skeletons” came in
This will be known as the Holocaust, or the German supported systematic killing of Jewish individuals and political dissenters.

14. Hitler’s Role: Action T4 (1939-41 [45?])
Nazi Germany’s “Euthanasia Program” during which physicians murdered thousands of people, “judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination.”
About 275,000 were murdered under T4
Victims were German

15. Holocaust Death Totals

16. WHAT DID THE UNITED STATES KNOW ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND HOW DID IT RESPOND?
Despite a history of providing sanctuary to persecuted peoples, the United States grappled with many issues during the 1930s that made living up to this legacy difficult.
These issues included widespread anti-Semitism, xenophobia, isolationism, and a sustained economic depression.
Unfortunately for those fleeing Nazi persecution, such issues greatly impacted US refugee policy, reinforcing an official and popular unwillingness to expand immigration quotas to admit greater numbers of people endangered by Nazi persecution and aggression at a time when doing so might have saved lives.

17. The surviving top ranking Nazi officials were placed on trial for War Crimes- Nuremburg Trials
Arose from the dilemma of what to do to these captured Nazis: Free them, Kill them, or Try them?
The trial had international judges, lawyers, witnesses, evidence, etc.
In the end of the 23 men placed on trial: 12 received death, 7 prison sentences (10yrs-Life), and 3 were acquitted.
Nuremburg Trials