Thursday, March 28

Notes and i had to leave early.

The US Homefront- what the people did back home during war effort

  • Women's role-
    • factory work and helped win the war. They became nurses everywhere. WAVES- Women Navy like secretary and anything not combat.
  • Factories-War Production Board
    • We made many things and that's how we came to highest power!
  • War bonds
    • Helped the U.S. Pay for the war by lending money to the government and making interest off it.
  • Japanese relocation camps
    • Hard life for Japanese! We were worried about spys and a lot of it was just racism. They were given entertainment, jobs, and school. No grass but wasn't as bad as German camps.
  • Propaganda
    • Persuading people to do things.
      • Buy War Bonds
      • Enlist Today!
      • Make us look good and Germany bad
      • Do your part today!
  • War rationing-Office of Price Administration
    • Food rations for families. They were given stickers for gas rations and many other supplies. People did illegally buy stickers because they wanted more. Families were given war ration books
  • Hollywood in WWII
    • Entertainment changed a lot because propaganda got involved with movies. Propaganda to support the country mostly. Bob hope would go around to the troops and entertain them.
  • The story of "Kilroy was here"
    • People were stealing things so he would start carving this saying into the boat. At first they thought he was a spy but nobody knows if this is real or not.

US Fighting:

-US in Africa

  • Took place in North Africa from June 1940 to May 1943
  • Libyan and Egyptian deserts also in Morocco, Algeria and ended in Tunisia
  • Campaign was fought between the Allies (GB, France, US) and Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Vichy France)
  • Area was in conflict due to colonial interest dating back to the late 1800s
  • U.S. got involved in 1942, 11 months after Pearl Harbor
  • George Patton
    • U.S General in WWII led us into Africa and also D-Day

-US in Italy

  • July 1943
  • Like a D-Day invasion
  • Salerno 

-D-Day

  • Invasion of Normandy
  • Germany controlled France but we invaded it
  • Dwight Eisenhower was commander
  • The Atlantic Wall the Germans had built so ships cannot get to land
  • Ike, Patton, Bradley U.S. Generals
  • Beginning of the end

-US bombing of Germany

  • U.S bombed Germany
    • Weapon industries, communication lines

-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering

  • May 8, 1945
  • they were pushed together

-Battle of Coral Sea

  • Naval Battle in May 1942
  • Chester Nimitz navy against Japan

-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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