Monday, Feb. 10Objective:Today we will investigate and describe the role and sacrifices of members of the American armed forces on D-Day and the WWII in Europe by taking notes and investigation different “fronts” of WWII.

Agenda:• Warm Up• U.S. Prepares for

War on the Home front

• V-E Day• Holocaust• What did you learn

in school

Warm UpGreen Desk: Clean UpOrange Desk: Gather MaterialsPink Desk: RecorderYellow Desk: Gather Handouts

1. Who are the members of the Big Three?

2. What is an example of a change that occurred on the Homefront during WWII?

3. Why did the US Gov. detain 127,000 Japanese Americans in Interment Camps?

The Homefront• After Pearl Harbor, many

Americans came to fear that another attack was imminent on American soil. Fear, not facts, cause the American government to contain 127,000 Japanese-American citizens in internment camps.

Internment Camps: a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners.

The HomefrontBased on these pictures

and what you know, what was the opinion of

Japanese-Americans?

The Homefront• Much like WWI, many

Americans enlisted in the military, leaving their daily jobs behind. Women stepped in to fill the void and keep making bullets, tanks, planes, and other necessities.

• It was a combined effort for everyone. Dad went to war, Mom went to work, and the kids rationed their food for soldiers overseas.

What is the point of these WWII propoganda

posters?

What is the message to

women during WWII?

D-Day (June 6, 1944)D-Day (June 6, 1944)

Normandy Landing

(June 6, 1944)

Normandy Landing

(June 6, 1944)

Higgins Landing Crafts

German Prisoners

The Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944The Liberation of Paris:August 25, 1944

De Gaulle in Triumph!

U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944

U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944

The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive

The Battle of the Bulge:Hitler’s Last Offensive

Dec. 16, 1944to

Jan. 28, 1945

Yalta: February, 1945Yalta: February, 1945

y FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war.

y FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany.

y Churchill wants strong Germany as bufferagainst Stalin.

y FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’.

US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River:

April 25, 1945

US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River:

April 25, 1945

Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945

Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945

The Führer’s Bunker

Cyanide & Pistols

Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

V-E Day (May 8, 1945)V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

General Keitel

Soviets take Berlin

Crematoria at

Majdanek

Entrance to Auschwitz:

Work Makes You Free

Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Slave Labor at Buchenwald

Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

What did you learn in school today?1. What was it like on D-Day

for all soldiers?2. Why do you think the U.S.

Military decide upon a land invasion of the French beaches? Was this for the common good?

3. How was D-Day a turning point in the War?