US Home Front; going on in the us to help win the war.
taxes
raised to pay for war
economy,
controls on prices and wages.
labor;
employment rate went down, women got jobs.
farmers were affected. people moved into city to work in factories.
students got out of school to farm
African Front;
montgomery, main british general.
rommel, main german general.
george patten jr,
rommel patten, died of accident and pills
Italian Front;
italian govt surrendered after we attacked them.
D-day;
largest amphibious military invasion
invasion on nazi europe
france gb america canada
why success?
weather was stormy so hitler let people go home. thought we were gonna invade from north.
american general, dwight d eisenhower. mongomery british was the commander of the ground forces on d-day
patton was in command of the 1st army group which didnt exist and confused the germans to thinking that the attack will come further north. calais.
operation over lord
us kept pushing germany back
battle of the bulge; ardennes mts. most deaths. 19,000 americans.
germany being trapped between us and su.
Pacific
US and Japan.
japs wanted resources, werent getting any from US.
macarthur, us general.
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