Thursday, March 28th!

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• Women's Role.
  • Woman could really do anything
  • Typest,

 

• Factories-War Production Board
• What helped us make things for the army.
• Encouraged people not to be lazy on the job.
• Make us much as you possibly could as fast as you could.

• National War labor Board
  • Together we win.- Labor Unions, Uncle Sam, workers, and owners.
• War bonds
  • US government would sell these war bonds.
  • The money would go to help out the army.
  • How we payed for the war.
  • Government- We loaned them money, later we'd get it back.
  • The price depended on how much you were worth.
  • After you bought them the face price went down 25%.
  • I wasn't considered a tax per-say, but it was.
• Propaganda
  • Made for or convince people to think how they think.
  • Bye war bonds. Enlist today. Make US look good and Germany bad. Do your part.
  • Believing something that you want them to.
• War rashining
  • Rashining of goods.
  • Rashing is saving.
  • Only could get so much a week. -Food. Clothes. Gas. Exc.
  • 5 Gallons a week of gas. 4 Gallons a week. All they could.
  • Food Stamps- All you had was a little. And that's all you got.
  • If left over couldn't  legally give yours away.
  • Budget and save up.
  • Not having really anything left.
• National War Labor Board
  • Uncle Sam.
  • Hand over- Work together.
  • Together we win.
  • Did not want people to go on strikes.
• Hollywood

• • Make films.
  • USO tour.
  • Entertain the troops.
  • Bob Hope- famous comedian. Founded USO.
  • First person to preform was Joe Brown.
  • May of 1945 did like 7,000 shows.
  • Something to look forward to.
• Kilroy
  • James Kilroy.
  • Wrote his name on a ship.
  • All the troops didn't know what it meant, and didn't know who it was.
  • Wrote it all over.
  • Thought that he might be a superspy.
• US and Africa
  • Involved a lot of tanks.
  • Open area, dessert. (Sahara)
  • Germany and Italy against US (wasn't in till 42), Free French, Australia, Soviet Union, exc.
  • We didn't get directly involved.
  • Ended in 43'
  • Operation Torch- We invade threw all of the countries. (Like D-day invasion)
• Erwin Rommel- The Desert Fox.
  • He fought in the Desert.
  • Very sly.
• George Patton- US General.
  • Got into trouble for beating up on of his team mates.
  • He died right after war.
  • In automobile in Germany.
  • There is a conspiracy that he may have been killed.
• Italy
  • West Coast of Italy.
  • Cicely is an island. July- 1943.
  • Code Name- Husky.
  • Highly worked.
  • Ended in Europe.
  • Over through Mussolini.
  • Later that year it was over. Sept 8th 43' Italian government surrendered. (To the Allies)
  • Mussolini was than kicked out.
  • Italy was not "free" German troops took control.
  • Was easy- Only a couple months for Mussolini.
  • But longest because of German troops.
  • German troops had control of the mountains.
  • Italy wasn't free till right before end of WWII.
• D-Day
  • June 5th was original plan.
  • June 6th 1944. 
  • 13,000 flew in before.
  • 925 bombs
  • 5 beach's.
  • Gold, Sword, Omaha, Mulberry, Juno.
  • Beginning of the end.
• Atlantic Wall
  • Along the wall.
  • They put things that stopped ships.
  • Stopped boats from going on shore easily.
• VE Day
  • We were concerned about Soviet Union.
  • June 6th 44'
  • Germany surrenders.
• Bombing Germany.
  • Bombed Germany.
  • Became a team.
  • Airforce was the mighty 8th.
  • All went to correct places we wanted them to.
  • 22 German Planes, and only 4 of ours went down.
  • Bomb everything that would help us win.
  • 330 bombs able for us to use.
• Corel Sea
  • 6 months after Pearl Harbor
  • Stail mate.
  • Stopped Japan's advance.
  • Australia would have been next.
  • We stopped them- Never able to keep moving.
  • Philippines were ours, they took.
  •  First battle in History that were fighting on the sea from planes.
• Midway
  • Island is in the middle of the Ocean.
  • Just west of Hawaii.
  • Japan planned on another attack.
  • June 4th- June 6th 1942.
  • 6-7 months after Pearl Harbor.
  • Turned around Japan for US.
  • Area that they could keep safe.
  • Extend perimeter.
  • Knew it was coming, hit while it was happening.
• Iwo Jima
  • They let us on the beach easily.
  • Hiding in the mountains.
  • 6,821 US Deaths at Iwo Jima.
  • Reason why we lost so many- Because there fighting till the death. They don't care if they die, commit suicide. Many things, but as long as they don't surrender.
  • People wonder was it worth it? -Yes. At the time.
• Philippians
  • Macarthur wanted to stay till the death, than FDR called him and ordered him home.
  • Group of Islands.
  • Batton death march. (Extreme Heat)
  • Biggest attration to US.
  • Many died. -Lack of food, Heat, so many.
  • Camacozi- Suicide aircraft.
  • Came to that towards the end of the war.
  • As MacArthur leaves he promised that he would be back.
  • He made the previews in the movies.
  • He walked to the shore, he didn't like how it happened so he did it twice.
• Okinawa
  • 340 miles long
  • 18 days long.
  • It was really important.
  • One of the bloodiest battles US has had.
  • 100,000 casualties.
  • Operation Ice Berg
  • Japanese Islands.
• Promin
  • Oppenheimer and Groves- He is a communist.
  • General in charge.