1. PHONES UP Have your notes out!

2. WWII Sub Groups

3. Tuskegee Airmen
All African-American military squad based in Tuskegee, Alabama
Army program to train African-Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft
Became one of the most highly respected fighter pilot groups of WWII
Helped the Double V campaign
Victory at home (racism) and victory abroad (WWII)

5. Women Women helped the war efforts in many ways:
Serve abroad as nurses
Held positions in the armed forces: clerical positions, radio operators, and technicians
Helped out on the homefront in factories and by creating victory gardens

7. Flying Tigers
Pilots brought to China to teach and help the Chinese army pilots
Also brought war material to give
Known for the artwork on their planes

9. Navajo Code Talkers
The Army used the Navajo American Indian language to transmit and translate messages
Native Americans attended basic training to learn about communication and memorization of the code that was created
Some were enlisted, some were drafted
Became a huge success
The code was hard for other countries who intercepted the message to translate

11. Japanese Americans
Post Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were located and put into internment camps
Executive Order 9066
Why do you think the government did this?
Internment camps were located in California, Oregon, and Washington
states with a large Japanese American population
Korematsu v. United States
“Clear and present danger”
Is this a violation of your rights as an American?

13. Exit Ticket
Summarize each sub group in one sentence (5 sentences total)
Which sub group do you believe was the most influential to WWII and why?
(What does influential mean?)