Monday, March 25th (U.S.)

-The US Homefront

  • Women's role
    • Rosie the Riveter - represented women workers in WWII
    • needed as farmers, typist, timekeepers, elevator operators, messangers, teachers, search light operators
    • WASP- Womens Army Service Pilots
  • Factories-War Production Board
    • lots of war goods and production
    • more production
  • National War Labor Board
    • worker and owner
    • picture of 3 hands
    • no going on strike
    • Together we win
  • War bonds
    • How we paid for the war
    • every person has to buy so many war bonds. make money off of interest down the road
  • Japanese relocation camps
    • were american citizens who were forced to sell everything and sent to relocation camps in western US
    • wasnt German concentration camps
    • kids went to school and adults had paying jobs
  • Propaganda
    • meant to pursuede the american people
    • 1. Buy War Bonds
    • 2. Get people to enlist
    • 3. Make US look good and Germany Bad
    • 4. Do your part today
  • War rationing-Office of Price Administration
    • controlled distribution of resources and services
    • War Ration book
    • war rationing was so rich people couldnt buy it all and control it
    • gas, food, and resources
    • had stickers for different amounts of gas
  • Hollywood in WWII
  • The story of "Kilroy was here"
    • some graffiti

US Fighting:

-US in Africa

-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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