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womens role: worked in factories and in farms, nurses, secretaries. every branch in the military had a place for women but they could not fight or have any training.
homefront: the home country of the country at war. where people created supplies.
war production board: made sure factories were efficient and produced as much as possible. we made more products than all other allied powers combined.
national war labor board: the picture shows US over a worker and an owners hand shaking. because "together we win" they didn't want workers to go on strike.
war bonds: funded the war.
japanese relocation camps: we were afraid they were spies so we relocated them. they weren't killed. some died because they lacked medical attention. were put in desert areas.
propaganda- to convince people of a way to think. ads that helped people do their part and convince them of a certain way to think.
rationing: people only got a certain amount of food and other resources so that we could supply everyone. we didnt want the rich people to buy everything and sell it on the black market to make profit.
hollywood: actors made films about the war. would preform for the troops- USO Tour. USO- United Service Organization, founded by Bob Hope ( famous comedian)
Kilroy- made after James Kilroy he inspected ships and if it was okay he would right kilroy was here. then whenever troops made it overseas they wrote kilroy was here on the ships as a joke. people thought he was a spy or a super soldier. people began to write it on everything.
US in Africa: US was in north africa, a lot of tank battles. very open area, desert area. the bad french, germany, and italy were against US, britain, australia, canada, and the free french. started in 1940, we didn't get involved in 42, ended in 43. decided to invade africa instead of france because it was the weakest area for the germans.
battle of coral sea- first battle in history fought by only airplanes taking off from aircraft carriers on the sea. moral victory for the US. gave us a moral boost because we stopped japan.
midway- japan tried to plan another sneak attack but we found out about it. shortly after coral sea. victory for the united states. navy sunk 4 japanese carriers and japan only sunk one of ours. wanted midway to extend their defense perimeter.
iwo jima- d-day style invasion. japan let us onto the beaches easily but they were waiting for us in the mountains. lost just under 7,000 people. lost a lot of people on these islands.
Philippines- attacked on the same day as pearl harbor. the japanese defeated us. baton death march- US soldiers that were captured were forced to march to a new camp 100 miles away. many died of lack of medical attention, dehydration, starvation. we wanted to take it back. macarthur didnt want to leave the phillippines, so he promised to come back, and he did.
okinawa- longer battle, very big island, lasted 82 days. japanese island. didn't end until japan surrendered. very bloody battle. over 100,000 casualties.
J Robert Oppenheimer- communist that created the atomic bomb.
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