World War 2: Part 2

Systematic murder of 11 million people acorss Europe (More than ½ Jews)

Someone the Germans could blame for their failures + frustrations

Blamed for Germany’s defeat in WW1 + economic problems

Mei Kampf/ My struggles

• Stripped Jew’s of their civil rights/property

• Must wear the Star of David

• Many were moved to districts set aside for them

• **Easier for germans to control

Districs set aside for Jews, Easier for Germans to control

• Physical healthy male Jews were sent to work in slave labor camps

• Most were sent to concentration camps where the Nazis wouuld try and commit genocide

• Poor hygine, starvation, health in camps

• Extermination

• 6 million Jews dead

deliberae + systematic killing of an entire ethnic race

• Jews, Communists, Socialists, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witness, Physically/Mentally Disabled, Homosexuals

Gas chamber hanged, shot medical experiments, lethal injections (Germs, Poison)

• Quota system

• Great Depression- Limit immigration (no jobs)

• Fear of opening the door to refugees would allow enemy agents to enter U.S.

  • 900,000 turned away from U.S.

• Group all ships together=easier targets

• Pick up Japan Planes on radars: thougt they were U.S. planes

• Sunk a Japan sub, didn’t tell anyone for 30 min

• Over 3,000 deaths, Pacific Fleet severly damaged

• U.S. joins WW2T

• Japan, Germany, Italy

• Keep U.S. out of WW2, U.S. wouldn’t want to fight war on 2 fronts

U.S. can lend arms to country’s that are vital to helping the U.S. in a war or defending the U.S.

Between Great Britain + U.S., both would commit to a world of democracy, free trade, freedom of the seas, advancement in economy, nonagression

• Roosevelt + Congress restricted sale of strategic materials to Japan

  • Materials important to fighting a war

  • Blocked fuel for airplanes + iron

  • Froze all Japanese assets in U.S.

  • Reduce Oil shipments

• Japan depended on U.S. for all these materials

• Plan for peacetime draft

• Led by General George C. Marshall

• Many opposed the draft untill France surrendured to Germany in 1940

• Created by Roosevelt

• Directed production goals for the war due to contreversies between gov. and military agencies

• Enetering WW2 ended Great Depression but at a cost

• Terrible housing conditions in defense factiories

• Many strikes riots, juvenile delinquency

• Higher wages for workers but longer hours

• Pressure to produce led to woman + minorities being hired

2 most common feelings felt around the world but not by U.S.: Fear and Hunger

• Everyone had jobs

• Income doubled

• Personal savings increased 10x

• Inflation was moderate due to wage and price controls

During Great Depression: 20%, During WW2: 1%

• People moving to different locations

  • Breaks down regional prejeduces

• Nationalism starts to strengthen

• Everyone had radio (fireside chats)

• Movies=escape from reality

• Milk delivered, mail twice a day

• Entered the workforce in numbers

• Held the family together

• Got married as teenagers

• Psychologically tough

• Fight a war against the world’s greatest racist in a segregated military

  • Menial tasks

  • Not allowed into combat untill 1944

• Still segregated in the U.S.

• Improved financial situation, moved North/West

Cooking, cleaning

Native born Americans of Japanese descendent were thought to be spies for Japan

• Nisei along Pacific Coasts were rounded up + moved to camps

• Forced to sell property

• Declared constitutional

• Camp surrounded by barbed wire

• Harvested crops + lived in cramped quarters

Russians were now the good guys, Stalin called “Uncle Joe”