Section #1: Mobilization on the Home Front

Objective: Discuss how Americans prepared for World War II

Preparations for War 1940-1941

Preparations for War 1940-1941

Selective Service Draft

Conversion of industries from peace time to war time, WPA;

Impact on economy?

Employment of Women in war time industry

Creation of OSRD to push development of new technologies to be used on and off the battlefield

Establishment of OPA established price freezes throughout industry

Rationing;

Fixed allotments of goods for home use and military use

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NAZI 1932 CAMPAIGN

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25.2: The War for Europe

and North Africa

OBJECTIVE: Understand how the Allies defeated Italy and Germany

America at War: 1941-1945

FDR’s STRATEGY:

1. Attack Germany first: save USSR and UK

2. Attack Japan second: give ground in Pacific

PROBLEM: Will America arm itself (and its Allies) in time?

CONCERN: Were totalitarian warriors better than citizen-soldiers?

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ENIGMA ENCODING MACHINE

During World War II, the Germans used the Enigma, an

electromechanical cipher machine, to develop nearly

unbreakable codes for sending messages. The Enigma's

settings offered 150,000,000,000,000,000,000

possible solutions, yet the Allies were eventually able to

crack its code.

Liberty ShipsUS was able to produce 140 of these

ships A MONTH!!!• By the end of the

war, a ship was able to be built in 5 days

• PROBLEM: initially 30% of the early liberty ships “fractured” at sea

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WWII: European TheatreACT I

1942 & 1943: War in the AtlanticAllied Convoys v. “Wolf pack” of German U-Boats

1942: Allies turn the tideHalt Germans at El Alemein and Stalingrad

11/1942-5/1943: North Africa CampaignKasserine Pass, Rommel & Patton, Big Red 1

6/1943: Invasion of ItalySurrender of Italy, Mussolini exec., Anzio, Monte Cassino & Gothic Line

Map: The Allies on the Offensive in Europe, 1942-1945

The Allies on the Offensive in Europe, 1942-1945The United States pursued a "Europe first" policy: first defeat Germany, then focus on Japan. American military efforts began in North Africa in late 1942 and ended in Germany in 1945 on May 8 (V-E Day).

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Battle of StalingradOperation Barbarossa:

330,000 Germans invade, only 91,000 survive/POWs

Soviets suffer 1,250,000 military and civilian casualties.

SIGNIFICANCE: Turning point of war on Eastern Front

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WWII: European TheatreACT II

6/6/1944: D-Day – NormandyAllies, Patton, Liberation of Paris, Soviet Advance

12/16/1944: Battle of the BulgeGerman Counter-Offensive, Siege of Bastogne

4/1945: The Bitter EndSoviet and American forces meet at ElbeBerlin Falls, Hitler commits suicideFDR dies, Patton now President

5/8/1945: V-E Day

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Operation Overlord: D-Day June 6, 19443 million allied soldiers, 4,600 vessels

Beachheads: UTAH, OMAHA / GOLD, JUNO, SWORD

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Eisenhower at D-Day

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Liberation of the Death Camps

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V-E DayVictory in England Day

May 8, 1945

V-E DayVictory in Europe Day

May 8, 1945