- Women's role-made war materials and basically took over the role of the men
- Factories-War Production Board-
- national war labor board-basically told people to not go on strike
- War bonds-the way the war was paid for
- Japanese relocation camps-all Japanese-American citizens were sent to camps and their civil rights were taken away
- Propaganda-get people to "do their part" and help with the war effort
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration
- Hollywood in WWII-lots of movie stars and actors openly supported the war in an effort to get people to, again, "do their part" and do it now. also served to entertain the troops
- The story of "Kilroy was here"-James Kilroy was a ship inspector, and if he found a ship okay he wrote Kilroy was here on it. Troops started righting that all over the place. Some people thought it was a super soldier or something.
US Fighting:
-US in Africa-North African campaign. a lot of open terrain, tank fighting. Axis- Vichy French, Italy and Germany Allies- US, Free French, Britain, etc. after the US invaded North Africa, this campaign ended after 6-8 months when they surrendered and fled back to Italy
Erwin Rommel- The Desert Fox- German general that always outwitted his opponent
he only lost in Africa because of sheer numbers. He was killed by the paranoia of Hitler.
George Patton and Montgomery- competed with one another to beat Rommel.
Patton died in an automobile accident in Germany soon after the end of WW2.
The Allies decided to attack Italy next, as opposed to France. Stalin wanted to attack France
-US in Italy-invaded Sicily first, won quickly. They then moved to the Italian mainland.
Italy surrendered after 3 months, and Mussolini was removed from power.
Italy was still occupied by German troops up until near the end of the war.
US spent the most time fighting in Italy
-D-Day-invading France on the beaches of Normandy.
amphibious and airborne attacks on the 5 beaches.
June 6, 1944
beginning of the end for Germany
Germans had the Atlantic Wall- similar to the Maginot line, except not quite as extensive
3 main allied generals- Ike, Patton, and Bradley
After D-day, the Allies moved on to attack Germany
-US bombing of Germany-Germany was being bombed every day
aimed for high-priority targets (naval bases, factories, railroads, communication towers)
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering- there was a huge celebration for this.
Germany was forced to surrender to USSR and Britain after surrendering to the US-this foreshadowed the Cold War
May 8, 1945
-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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