Bell ringer

• WWII test is Wednesday.

Bell Ringer

• Completion: Fill in the blank with the appropriate number value:
• ________ percent of the Jewish populations of Poland, the Baltic countries, and Germany were killed by Hitler.
• About ______________ percent of all European Gypsies were killed in the death camps.
• Approximately _________ million Poles, Ukrainians, and Belorussians died as slave laborers under Hitler.
• Nearly __________ out of every three European Jews died as a result of the Holocaust.

Aftermath of World War II

Chapter 19, Section 4

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Total War:

World War II

World War II = Total War

• Economic mobilization was more extensive.
• The war had an enormous impact on civilian life in many parts of the world.
• Example: Leningrad
• Over a million people died there due to food shortages.
• People had to eat dogs, cats, and mice.

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In 1943, 55% of the national income of the Soviet Union went to war materials.

• As a result there were severe shortages of food and housing.

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Women

In the War Effort

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• factories
• mines
• railroads
• dug anti-tank ditches
• worked as air raid wardens

Women working in industry increased 60%.

Rosie The Riveter by The Four Vagabonds

• The U. S. became an arsenal for the Allies by producing most of the military equipment needed to fight the Axis.

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• In 1943, the U. S. was building 6 ships a day and 96,000 planes per year.

The united States

Japanese-Americans

• 65% of them had been born in the United States.
• They were forced to live in camps surrounded by barbed wire.

Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were moved to internment camps away from the ocean.

• Young Japanese volunteered to serve as suicide pilots against U.S. ships were called Kamikaze

(“divine wind”)

pilots.

Japan

Bombing in WWII

• Bombing was used against military targets, enemy troops, and civilian populations.

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• World War II was the 1st war in which large masses of civilians were bombed.

Britain: morale remained high.

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The idea that bombing civilians

would force peace was proved

wrong.

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The bombing of Germany

added to civilian terror.

The Germans particularly feared incendiary bombs, which spread fire when they exploded.

In Dresden enormous firestorms resulted from the bombing, killing 100,000s of people and burning everything that could burn.

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The bombing of Germany by

the Allies may have killed a

half-million civilians

The bombing of civilians reached an unprecedented level when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.