WW II

• WW II was going on for years before the US became involved.

• Japan made the USA become involved on December 7, 1941.

WW II

• In a planned military attack on a Sunday morning, the naval base was attacked by the Japanese fighter pilots.

• An African American soldier who served as a cook, fought off a few Japanese planes in the process, thus saving American lives.

DORIE MILLER

WW II

After the attack at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received permission from Congress to enter the war…

and

for the next 4 years, America helped her allies defeat their foreign enemies.

WORLD WAR II

ALLIED BIG THREE

GREAT BRITAINSOVIET UNION UNITED STATES

AXISBIG THREE

GERMANY JAPAN ITALY

WW II

With the war close to an end, the US chose to utilize a secret weapon that HAD NEVER been used before in world history.

ATOMIC BOMBS were dropped on two cities in Japan, which killed men, women, and babies.

DID YOU KNOW?

• JAPANESE AMERICANS WERE HELD IN PRISONS (INTERNMENT CAMPS ) DURING THE WAR.

• OUR GOVERNMAENT GAVE REPARATIONS TO THE JAPANESE WHO WERE IMPRISONED.

AFRICAN AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN

WW II

AA INVOLVEMENT IN WW II

BENJAMIN O. DAVIS SR.

BECAME THE FIRST A.A TO BECOME A GENERAL IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY

GEN. BENJAMIN O DAVIS SR

AA INVOLVEMENT IN WW II

AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE MAINLY USED IN NON-COMBAT DUTIES DURING THE START OF THE WAR.

BUT WHEN THEY DID FIGHT, THEY PLAYED A BIG ROLE IN HELPING AMERICA WIN.

AA INVOLVEMENT IN WW II

THE AA SOLDIERS WERE STILL FACED DISCRIMINATION FROM THEIR FELLOW WHITE SOLDIERS WHILE THEY WERE FIGHTING OVER SEAS HOWEVER.

AA INVOLVEMENT IN WW II

THE BLACK SOLDIERS CREATED SOMETHING CALLED THE DOUBLE V CAMPAIGN

TO SIGNIFY THAT THEY WERE FIGHTING TWO WARS AT THE SAME TIME.

HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS

ONE OF THE MORE POPULAR AA TROOPS THAT FOUGHT IN WW II WERE THE HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS.

THE HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS RECEIVED THEIR NAME BECAUSE OF THE SKILLS THEY DISPLAYED IN BATTLE.

HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

ANOTHER AA TROOP THAT HELPED TO SECURE VICTORY FOR AMERICA WERE THE TUSKEGGEE AIRMEN.

THEY WERE AN ENTIRE BLACK REGIMENT OF FIGHTER PILOTS WHO WERE TRAINED AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE BY BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR.

BENJAMIN DAVIS JR

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

THEY WERE NOT PERMITTED TO FIGHT AT

FIRST, BUT WHEN ALFRED “CHIEF” ANDERSON TOOK THE FIRST LADY (ELANOR ROOSEVELT) FOR A TEST RIDE, SHE CONVINCED HER HUSBAND TO ALLOW THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WAR.