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!
- Persuading people to do things.
- 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
- Surrender of Germany
-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
Atomic bombs
- Oppenheimer and Groves
- Manhattan Project
-Hiroshima bombing
- U 235
- Paul Tibbits flew the plane
- "little boy"
- 1945 August
- 80,000 killed right away, 150,00 killed later in years by radiation sickness
-Nagasaki bombing
- "Fat Man"
- Bockscar
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering
- Victory over Japan
-Yalta Conference
- February, 1945
- Germany would be broken into four occupation zones (US, GB, France, USSR)
- Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over
- Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United Nations
-Potsdam Conference
- July, 1945
- Indochina
- temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel
- Japna would Surrender to Great Britain in the South and China in the north
- Germany
- Goals of the occupation of Germany:
- Demilitarization, Denazification, democratization
- Division of Germany and Austira into four occupation zones
- Goals of the occupation of Germany:
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