- 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
-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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