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Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Allied and Axis Powers in 1941.

Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Allied and Axis Powers in 1941. Outline the steps that the U.S. took to prepare for war. Increased production. More workers Increased production of cars, ammunition, rifles, aircraft, planes, naval vessels Ended the Depression

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Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Allied and Axis Powers in 1941.

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  1. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Allied and Axis Powers in 1941.

  2. Outline the steps that the U.S. took to prepare for war.

  3. Increased production • More workers • Increased production of cars, ammunition, rifles, aircraft, planes, naval vessels • Ended the Depression • Farmers  wartime production (feed Americans at home and overseas)

  4. Expand the government • War Production Board (WPB): Increase military production • Directed conversion of existing factories to wartime production • Supervised building of new plants • Assigned raw materials to industry • Office of War Mobilization (OWM): Coordinated all govn’t agencies involved in the war effort • Production and distribution of consumer goods

  5. Direct the economy • Increased # of Americans who paid income tax • Sold war bonds • Office of Price Administration (OPA): set maximum prices on consumer goods and rationed scarce items • Keep wages and prices down by freezing them

  6. Raise the army • Selective Training and Service Act: Provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history • Req. all men 21-35 (later 18-45) to register • Women's involvement: • 300,000 volunteers • Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS), auxiliary branches of navy, coast guard, and marines • Worked as nurses, drove vehicles, and ferried planes

  7. Identify locations where the Japanese military attacked after Pearl Harbor.

  8. Clark Air Force Base (12/8/1941) • U.S. aircraft sitting on runway like “sitting ducks”; air support planes destroyed • Fleet had to withdraw to the Bataan Peninsula • General Douglas MacArthur: Defended the Philippines; later given command of all U.S. Army units in the Pacific • Famous quote regarding the Philippines: “I shall return."

  9. Bataan Death March (April 1942) • After retreat, continued to fight; surrendered in April • Japanese soldiers forced >70K survivors to march through the jungle to their prison camp; more than 10K died • Treated brutally, prevented from drinking water, beaten, or shot • Disease spread quickly in camps

  10. Other Locations of Japanese Attack • Burma • Borneo • Netherlands East Indies • Wake Island • Hong Kong • New Guinea

  11. Battle of the Java Sea (2/27/1942) • Japanese navy crushed a fleet of Australian, British, Dutch, and U.S. warships that had been trying to prevent an invasion of Java • Japanese invaded Java the next day and began conquest of New Guinea

  12. Discuss the early turning points of the war in the Pacific.

  13. Battle of the Coral Sea • Date: May 7, 1942 • U.S. Commander: Chester Nimitz • Events: • British/U.S. naval force intercepted Japanese attack on Solomon Islands • Damaged a Japanese carrier and destroyed another and several aircraft • Effect: Stopped Japanese advance on Australia

  14. Battle of Midway • Date: June 3-6, 1942 • U.S. Commander: Chester Nimitz • Events: • Japanese launched joint attack: Aleutian Islands (near Alaska; to draw U.S. fleet away from Hawaii) and Midway (main attack) • U.S. had broken Japanese code and had advance warning • U.S. ambushed Japanese attack on Midway • Japanese lost ships, planes, and a number of skilled pilots

  15. Guadalcanal • Date: August, 1942 • U.S. Commander: Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift • Events: • 1st major U.S. offensive • “Ferocious fighting” • Japanese tried to recover in Nov. but were defeated again

  16. Axis Victories Allied Victories Midway Hong Kong Burma Wake Island Clark Air Force Base Borneo New Guinea Java Sea Guadalcanal Coral Sea

  17. Relate the major battles in Europe and North Africa in 1942.

  18. Battle of El Alamein • Date: July 1942 • Axis Commander: “Desert Fox” Erwin Rommel • British General: Gen. Bernard Montgomery • Result: • Axis forces suffered shortages of men and supplies • Rommel’s troops pushed westward out of Egypt and into Libya

  19. Battle of Stalingrad • Date: Nov. 1942 – Jan. 1943 • Events: • German troops had pushed far into the Soviet Union and captured many industrial centers and rich grain fields; were closing in on Moscow; laid siege to Leningrad • Closing in on Stalingrad’s oil fields • Soviet forces refused to surrender and trapped Germans in the city with few supplies and little food • 200K German casualties

  20. Axis Victories Allied Victories Stalingrad El Alamein

  21. “Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.” Winston Churchill

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