WWII Across The Atlantic Ocean

1. Who was the Supreme commande in Europe, and was he sucessful?
- Dwight Eisenhwer was the supreme commander and he was successful because he made the enemy have an uncoditional surrender.

2. What was the sigficance of D-Day?
- The significance was that in order to remove Hitler they had to go to Europe where he was.

3. Was General Patton an effective leader?
- General Patton was an effective leader because he liberated Europe after 4 years of the Nazis taking over.

4. Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?
- The Battle of the Bulge was the last oppurtunity for Hitler to have victory.


             
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Coping With The War At Home

1. What was the OPA, and what was their job?
- The OPA was the office of Price Administration. Their job was to fight inflation by freezing prices on the most goods.

2. What was the purpose of the OSRD?
- The purpose of the OSRD was to bring scientists into the war to come up with new inventions to help defeat the enemey.

3. In what ways did Americans sacrifice during WWII?
- Americans could not buy as much stuff as they wanted because they were being rationed for the war.

4. How similar or different were your sacrifices during the Iraq and Afghanistan war?
- The difference was that during WWII you would be limited with food and stuff, and today we dont have to limit or ration anything before going to war.

                                                                      
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U.S Gets Ready For The Fight

1. Who was Phillip Randolph,  and why did he and president Roosevelt meet?
- Phillip Randolph was a African American labor leader who with African Americans, protested to get better jobs. He and president Roosevelt met because Roosevelt feared that the march might provoke resentment on white people so he called out Phillip Randolph to back down on it.

2. Who were the WAAC's and why were they important to the war effort?
-The WAAC's were a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. They served honorably as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio opertors, etc.

3.How well did African Americans do during WWII?
- African Americans at first started off bad by being segregated and getting bad jobs, but at the end they started to do better and got the jobs that were needed for the war.



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U.S Inches towards WWII

1.What was the Land-lease, and what countries did it benefit?
- The president would lend or rent weapons and other supplies to friends of the United States. It benefited the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

2.What did Roosevelt call German U-boats?
- Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic

3. How would desccribe Roosevelt's opinion of war?
- Roosevelt's opinion was that he wanted to stay neutral because he felt the people weren't build up for it yet.


                     
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WWII part 2

1. List all the contries the Nazis invaded?
 1.) Austria                   5.)  Bulgaria          9.) Lithuania      13.)Norway             17.)Belgium           
 2.)czechoslovakia        6.)Greece            10.)Latvia           14.)France                18.)soviet union
 3.)poland                     7.)Romania          11.)Estonia        15.)Denmark

4.)yugoslavia                 8.)Hungary          12.)Finland         16.)the Netherlands

2. What did Winston Churchill say about the peace agreed upon in the Munich Agreement?
- Winston Churchill believed that the Munich Agreement was a disaster and that it was going to lead to war


3.Whats Blitzkrieg and whats the purpose?                                                                                          -Blitzkrieg was lightning war.Its purpose was to take the enemy by surprise and then quickly crush all opposition with the overwhelming force.


                            

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WWII key terms

1. Allies - U.S., England, Soviet Union

2. Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy

3. Defense Spending - amount of money government spends on military.

4. Unemployment Rate - % of people unemployed.

5. Federal Outlay - amount of money the government uses to buy stuff.

6. Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic - German U-boats

7. German U-boats - German Submarines

8. Isolationists - policy of "mind your own business"

9. Appease - to give in to demands

10. Lend-Lease Act - Law that allowed POTUS to sell weapons to out friends.

11. Office of Price Administration - control money and rents after the WWII.

12. Inflation - when prices for goods / service increases but incomes remain the same.

13.) Pres.Franklin D.Roosevelt - 32nd president, leading the U.S during a time of economic depression and total war.

14.) Pres.Harry S.Truman - runner up of president Roosevelt for presidency; took president Roosevelt's place after he died. 

15.) Phillip Randolph - leader in African American civil rights movement.

16.) Gen.Patton - commander of the seventh U.S army and later the third 

17.) Gen.MacArthur - American general and Marshall of the Phillipine army who was chief of staff of the U.S army

18.) Gen.Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of U.S. Forces - five star general in the U.S army during WWII.

19.) Adolph Hitler - dictator for Germany

20.) Benito Mussolini - dictator for Italy

21.) Joseph Stalin - dictator for Russia/Soviet Union

22.) Winston Churchill -British politician, best known for his leadership in the UK during WWII.

23.) Battle of the Bulge- the last stand for Germany in the war.

24.) D-Day - offensive by allies to take over Europe.

25.) Auschwitz - Jewish concentration camp

26.) Atomic Bomb - Nuclear bomb dropped on Japan to end the war.

27.) Interment - camps on West Coast used to detain Japanese-Americans.

28.) Income Tax - % of tax paid on personal income (paychecks)

29.) Wage & Price controls - measures taken by a government under its income policy to control wages in an attempt to push inflation and wage push inflation.

30.) War bonds - debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during war 

31.) WAACs - Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 

32.) WWII Battles of the Pacific - wars taken place in the pacific

33.) GI Bill of Rights - a law that provided benefits for returning WWII veterans.

34.) Zoot-Suit Riots - A series of riots during WWII



                    
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World War II part 1

1. What treaty did Hitler hate? Why? 

 - Hitler hated the treaty of Versailles because they blamed Germany for starting the war and so Germany was forced to pay off debt. Hitler also hated it because it beat up Germany's pride.

2. Who became dictators during the 20's and 30's, and for what country?

- Japan: Hideki Tojo

  Germany: Adolf Hitler

  Italy: Benito Mussolini

  Russia: Joseph Stalin

  Spain: Francisco Franco

3. Explain similarities and differences amongst dictators?

- Mussolini and Stalin: If you disagree you get killed

 Hitler and Mussolini: called themselves " the leader"

4.What was the U.S thinking as several wars were breaking out?

- Most Americans believed that the U.S should not get involved. They wanted to stay isolated and neutral because they were still getting over WWI. President Roosevelt thought differently. He didn't want to stay neutral, he wanted to get involved.




                 
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"The Help" and the struggle for African American Equality

In the movie "The Help"  African American maids agreed to help a white woman write a book of how they were living their lives as maids so everyone could know. African American maids exposed in the book how they were being treated unfair.
      In one incident white southerners believed that African Americans shouldn't use their bathrooms. They wanted to treat them like animals and make them use the bathroom outside. The white southerners thought they would get some type of disease that the African Americans had.They ended up getting their own bathrooms but not in a good way.
      In another incident white people would control African Americans wages. White people could reduce their pay if they wanted to without getting in trouble. It was unfair for African Americans because they couldn't do anything about it. They could either take the job or leave it.
    The third incident was that African American children's dreams were squashed up and they already knew what they were gonna be. They couldn't even dream of becoming anything because they knew already they were going to be working  for White people. African American children were trained by their mothers of what to do and say, when they're at their jobs. Children lost their hopes of wanting to be someone in the future, because their future was already set up for them.
        The significance of "The Help" is to see the inequality of African American people. They were mistreated just because of their skin color. I think that the movie does show examples of the inequality that  African Americans faced before they had equal rights.
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