WWII Across The Atlantic Ocean

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the supreme commander in Europe during WW2, and was a successful leader. Eisenhower and the Allies, attempted to remove Adolf Hitler from power in Europe. It was the main goal od "D-Day," and was a successful operation. George Patton was a successful leader, he liberated the French from German control. The Battle of the Bulge was a "tide changer," as the Germans pushed Americans back for a little while to try and demoralize the Americans, they failed to do so. The Germans plan to demoralize the Allies backfired by the Germans losing much more than they gained.

Coping with the War At home

The OPA is the Office of Price Administration which fights inflation of the economy by freezing prices of goods. The OSRD was the Office of Scientific Research & Development. They were scientists that were brought into the war to find new ways like new technology to defeat their enemy. Americans were rationed during the war on many everyday needed items such as gasoline, shoes, food, etc.. Today, we are lucky to not have been rationed during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan like WW2. In WW2 people were rationed on gasoline and food, todays society would freak out if that ever happened again.

U.S. Gets Ready to Fight

Phillip Randolph was an American Labor leader who organized a march on Washington. The WAAC was known as the Women Association Auxillary Corps. They were women who served in the war performing important tasks such as being nurses, pilots, electricians and so on, while men were sent out to fight in the war. Before the war started, African Americans were treateed poorly and unfairly. Although when the war progressed, African American did too.

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Hardships duing the Great Depression

Families would lose their car and house during the Great Depression. Adults would lose their job, so there was no sort of income to support their families. Parents could not provide their children with food, could not provide themselves with electricity, or whatever needs to be paid for to use in the house such as water. People would roam the streets in search of food in garbage cans eating left overs. Everybody was wild for food.

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Families would lose their car and house during the Great Depression. Families would lose their jobs, so there was no sort of income to support their household. They could not provide food, electricity for the house, or anything that needs to be paid for to be used like water. People would roam the streets searching in garbage cans eating leftovers. Everybody was wild for food.

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The Great Depression-Bam!

During the "Great Depression," 94% of Americans made less than $5,000 a year. That is a horrible salary/earning per year an you would not survive todays economy on your own unless you were living under someone elses roof. "Wall Street," was important to American business because it was successful and was prosperous to American Economy. Investors invested into stock(getting a share of a business) and can trade/sell stocks to make even more money. If the stock market crash did not cause the Great Depression, it would be: Tariffs, war debt, crisis in the farm sector, easy credit(farmers go into debt with credit), and unequal income. Todays society goes through what we call the Great Recession. It somewhat relates to the Great Depression because people have been losing jobs, prices on goods are still high, but, you can invest into stocks to make some money. There are numerous stocks you can invest to and become wealthy from.

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WWII (pt. 2)

Adolf Hitler lead the Nazi's in Germany during World War 2. Countries he invaded include: Austria, Czechoslaovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, and the Soviet Union.
Winston Churchill believed the Munich Agreement was useless. From his perspective, it will lead to war anyways and he did not want to give in to appeasement to Hitler. Adolf Hitler used a tactic called "Blitzkreig", which is you can say its a "quick war". Blitzkreig is when the military uses brute and "godly" force to abuse their rival enemy, trying not to allow any opposing force and ending the war quickly; catching their enemy off-guard.

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WWII

Hitler hated the Treaty of Versailles because it hurt Germany's ego. Germany also had to pay off all war debts. Inflation in Germany was dreadful. Adolph Hitler was the dictator of Germany, other dictators in the war included: Joseph Stalin of Russia, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hideki Tojo of Japan, and Francisco Franco of Spain. Germany, Italy, and Russia's dictators were known as the,"Facsist Party." Italy and Germany were anti-communist, while Russia was a communist state. While on the other side of the world, there was War and tragedies going on, the U.S. did NOT want to get involved. They would rather be in a state of isolationism. On the other hand, Roosevelt wanted to get involved in this war.

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WW2 Keyterms

Allies - Allies of the United states that included england and the Soviet Union.

Axis - Germany's allies that included Japan and Italy

Defense spending - Amount of money the government spends on the military

Unemployment rate - % of people unemployed

Federal outlay - Amount of money the federal government uses to buy stuff

Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic - German U-Boats

German U-Boats - German Submarines

Isolationalists - Policy of, "Mind your own business"

Appease - To give into demands

Land Lease Act - Law that allowed POTUS to sell weapons to our allies/friends.

Office of Price Administration - Prevention of war time inflation

Inflation - When prices of goods increase while income stays the same

Franklin D. Roosevelt - 32nd U.S. President
President Harry S. Truman - 29th U.S. President
Phillip Randolph - a Civil Rights Leader
Gen Patton - George S. Patton, commander of the 3rd U.S. Army
Gen Macarthur - A general in WW2 General Douglas Macarthur
Gen Eisenhower - 34th President of the U.S.
Adolf Hitler - Leader of Germany
Benito Mussolini - Dictator of Italy
Joseph Stalin - Leader of Russia
Winston Churchill - Prime minister of U.K.

Battle of the Bulge - Last stand for Germany in the War

D-Day - invasion of Normandy, France June 6th, 1944

Auschwitz - Nazi Camp

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

Interment - Camps on Westcoast to detain Japanese-Americans

Income tax - % of tax paid on personal income

Wage and Price Controls - Measures taken by the government under income policy

War Bonds - Debt Securities issued by the government for financing in military ops in the war

WAACs - Members of the Womens Army Auxillary Corps

WW2 Battle of the Pacific - a series of battles in WW2 in the Pacific

GI Bill of Rights - Bill passed for WW2 veterans that provided many benefits

Zoot-Suit Riots - A series of riots that broke out in central L.A. between Marines and white sailors.

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"The Help" and the Struggle for African American Equality

         In school today, we are all learning more and more about racism and inequality in the past, and specs of it in the present. In the movie,"The Help," I witnessed incidents of unfair treatment towards colored people.
       One incident that occurred was the wages colored maids would make in a month, that couldn't support their families. Maid owners could control wages as well, which forced maids to take the oppression from their employers. Maid owners would treat their maids like dogs, and in the movie "The Help" the maids were more motherly-role to the children than their genetic blood-Mothers. Maids would have to deal with listening to racist and unfair talks when there was gatherings at a white family's house.
       Another incident I witnessed from "The Help," was that the white women would be disgusted when the colored maids would use their restrooms. The white people would spread false rumors such as,"black people carried diseases," so they could not use their restrooms. One of the women tried passing a house requirement that required any homes with a maid to have a separate bathroom built for the maids. In contrast, that same person that passed the law was embarrassed later on in the movie and put in the newspaper.
      Something that really made me feel bad about was the kids of the African American maids and the small hope for living a better life. Earlier in the beginning of the movie, one of the maids is interviewed and one of the questions went like this,"Do you have any other dreams besides being a maid?" It left the made speechless. The made said she also knew that she would be a maid when she grew up, it rules out everything else she should be able to do. She had no other intentions besides being a maid, restricting the rights given to us: Life, liberty, freedom. She couldn't dream being anything else, this type of thinking passes on to the children which made me feel bad for them.
      In the movie,"The Help," a group of maids were interviewed to tell stories of oppression and unfair treatment they deal with from their employers. They revealed their everyday struggle and eventually their stories were published into a book for the world to get a taste of what was happening in Jackson, Mississippi.