1. Bell Ringer 10/25/07 Complete #4 Analyzing Visual Sources on p. 568. Answer both questions in complete sentences. (7 min.)

2. December 7, 1941

3. Military Expands 5 million volunteered Selective Service provided 10 million WAAC- Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps; women served in non- combat positions Granted a salary but few of the benefits given to male soldiers

4. Industrial Production Surges Across the nation, factories were quickly converted to war production Automobile plants were re-tooled to produce airplanes, tanks, battleships

5. 6 million new women workers

6. Discrimination Minorities were discriminated against in both the military and industry. 1 million African Americans 300,000 Mexicans 25,000 Native Americans

7. Protest March on Washington- July 1, 1941 FDR, afraid of a problem, conceded. FDR issued an executive order calling on employers and unions to end racial discrimination in the workplace.

8. Scientists Mobilized Office of Scientific Research and Development Radar and sonar DDT (combat lice) Manhattan Project

9. Churchill and Roosevelt The two met shortly after Pearl Harbor Decided that Germany posed a greater threat than Japan Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike Hitler first

10. Battle of the Atlantic Hitler ordered U-boat raids along America’s east coast Tried to prevent food and supplies going overseas to the Allies By mid-1943 America had turned the tide in the Atlantic

11. Meanwhile……

12. German Army Pushes East August 1942 Blitzkrieg! Brutal hand-to-hand combat Winter came Soviets came back with tanks Held the Germans Lost 1,100,000 Rus.

13. North Africa Map on p.572 November 1942 107,000 Allied troops landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers Chased the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps

14. Italy Allies captured Sicily in summer of 1943 “Bloody Anzio” - battle that lasted four months 25,000 Allied dead 30,000 Axis dead

15. African American Heroes Tuskegee Airmen (99 th Pursuit Squadron) 92 nd Infantry Division (the Buffaloes) Distinguished themselves heroically in Italy

16. The D-Day Invasion (map p. 575)

17. Largest Air, Sea, Land Assault

18. Homework I WANT YOU TO DO THIS……. p.577 #2 Taking Notes