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  • 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

-D-Day

-US bombing of Germany

-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering

-Battle of Coral Sea

-Battle of Midway

-Battle of Iwo Jima

-Battle of the Philippines

-Battle of Okinawa

-Hiroshima bombing

-Nagasaki bombing

-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering

-Yalta Conference

-Potsdam Conference

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