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8-6.5 WWII PPT Notes By the late 1930’s, the American economy was improving and the worst of the Great Depression was over. But there was ____________in other parts of the world…. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany believed that the Germans were the ____________ race. He set out to conquer Europe and cleanse it. Millions of Jews were sent to concentration ___________ and more than 6 million were put to death in ________ chambers. When the war started in Europe in 1939, Americans were determined to stay _______ of the conflict. President Roosevelt sent ships and supplies to help the Allied Powers- Great Britain, France and ___________. Hitler’s efforts to take over Europe and exterminate the Jewish people drew the ________________ into World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Hundreds of U.S. aircraft, along with several U.S. Navy battleships, cruisers, and destroyers were destroyed or _____________. More than 2400 Americans were killed and another 1300 injured. The next day, the United States declared war on ___________ and joined the Allied Powers. Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States was anxious to retaliate against the Japanese, whose ___________ attack had brought the United States out of isolationism and into the war in Europe as well as the Pacific. The U.S. Government was drafting young men into the armed services and preparing for war. Many South Carolinians served in the armed forces. Many others were ______ fit for service. One third of young white men and one half of black men were either illiterate or in such _________ health that they could not serve. This was a startling indication of the poverty of South Carolina. Over 150,000 young men from South Carolina joined the fight in Europe or the ______________. A group of bomber pilots under the leadership of James Doolittle trained in ________________ at Fort Jackson to engage in an air attack to be launched from aircraft carriers on Tokyo. The attack helped to lift the morale of Americans. Military bases throughout South Carolina employed thousands of _____________. Military camps that had been established during World War I in South Carolina reopened to serve as training bases for the thousands of young men ______________ into the armed services Camp Jackson in Columbia became Fort Jackson. The Charleston Navy yards increased production of destroyers. It produced more than 300 medium and small-sized __________________. At least 70,000 South Carolinians found employment in factories producing war materials. The economy of South Carolina and the United States began to climb out of the Great Depression as the result of government ________________ on war preparations. Segregation and economic oppression were daily realities for black people in South Carolina. President Roosevelt would sign an order to ___________ discrimination in factories producing war ___________. Roles for women were changing at this time. Demand for workers in South Carolina was so ______________ that factories began to employ women to perform jobs once held by men ________________. A woman’s place was no longer to be just in the home. African American pilots were trained at the air base at the Tuskegee Institute in __________________. Commanded by white officers, the Tuskegee Airmen supported the allied invasion of Italy. Then they were assigned to escort heavy bombers on raids against strategic enemy _________________. This air campaign was directed at weakening Germany prior to the D-Day invasion. Several of the Tuskegee airmen earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the airmen proved that African American pilots could shoot down enemy aircraft as well as or ______________ than white air crews. African American soldiers served in segregated units commanded by white officers in the fight for freedom. When they returned to the states many were determined to fight to ___________segregation. Just as people did throughout the United States, South Carolinians collected scrap metal and _____________ for the war effort. They used ration books to get their share of the short supply of food and fuel and they bought war ___________ to fund the war effort. At the home front, life was characterized by war bonds, collections for relief agencies, rationing and numerous recycling drives. Items important to the war effort, such as, ________________ lard, tires, as well as food items like coffee, tea, and sugar were rationed. When the war was over they had savings to use to buy the ______________________ and goods that were not available during the war. When V-E Day and V-J Day finally arrived, South Carolina and the United States were poised to enter a period of ___________________. The war finally ended in ___________________. Historians estimate that between 30 million and 60 million people were killed during World War II.