- Women's role- worked in factories, woman were starting to get in the army doing behind the scene working.
- Factories-War Production Board - Tried to encourage the mass production of goods.
- War bonds - bonds that helped the pay for the war.
- Japanese relocation camps- Japanese people were relocated into a camp. The camp life was hard for them to live.
- Propaganda- is persuading people to do something. Buying War bonds, enlist today, do your part today! Were all propaganda movements in WWll.
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration - made it so that the rich people could not go out and buy everything. Gas was rationed a lot like an average person could only get 4 gallons of gas per week.
- Hollywood in WWII- Hollywood made a lot of films and took a lot of photos. Hollywood made a lot movies trying to use propaganda to win the war.
- The story of "Kilroy was here"- was a little sign of hope in America.
US Fighting:
-US in Africa- took place in Deserts and The Axis Powers surrendered 2 years before the end of the war.
-US in Italy- my blog
-D-Day- U.S. Invasion of Normandy France. Beginning of the end of the Nazi Campaign in Europe.
-US bombing of Germany- The Bombing of Germany was all through out the war. Used bombs that set everything on fire.
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering, May 8th, 1945. Germany surrendered during the Battle of Berlin.
-Battle of Coral Sea- A 4 day naval battle, between Australia and New Guini. It was the first turning point of the war against Japan.
-Battle of Midway- Most important naval battle in WW11. U.S. defeated the Japanese Imperial Army.
-Battle of Iwo Jima- was a huge victory for the U.S.
-Battle of the Philippines- Japan invaded them for a base against America.
-Battle of Okinawa
-Hiroshima bombing- was a atomic bomb that was made to make Japan surrender. Made of Uranium 235. 80,000 killed right away.
-Nagasaki bombing- was nicknamed "fat man". Couldn't hear what Cody said. Had alot of problems, almost ran out of gas.
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering- Island Hopping meant to hope islands and take control of and island. Victory over Japan on this day. August 14, or August 15.
-Yalta Conference- Conference where they tried to figure out how to get Hitler to surrender. Created zones in Germany for occupation.
-Potsdam Conference- The conference was on July of 1945. Focused on making it so Germany so it could never do that again. Germany and Austria were divided into 4 zones.
Oppenheimer and Groves- were in charge of the Manhattan Project. Making atomic warfare.
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