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-The US Home front
- Women's role
- Played an important role in the war.
- Would stay home and work in the factories.
- Rosie the Riveter.
- We Can Do It!
- Represented women workers in WWII.
- When the men would come back the women would get sent off because they weren't needed anymore.
- Women were afraid of getting muscles while working.
- Women played a very large part in WWII by being nurses.
- Women's Army Corps.
- Women wouldn't fight in combat operations.
- They could do anything else such as, testing materials or objects.
- 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.
- 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.
- Japanese relocation camps
- One of the things that America is not proud of.
- Was basically Americas concentration camps for the Japs.
- It wasn't us killing them but they would die from lack of doctoral need.
- It wasn't all bad, they were given jobs, education, and athletics.
- A civil service act was sent out to all Japanese Americans in 1993.
- The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was created as an apology.
- Propaganda
- mine.
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration
- The OPA dealt with rent, money flow, rationing goods.
- Rationing means saving.
- Food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat; clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon.
- You could only get so much stuff. So much gas, so much food, so much clothes.
- At first no more than 5 gallons a week then eventually would turn to 4 gallons per week.
- You would be given stickers on how much you would get.
- Hollywood in WWII
- People would make films about the war.
- Actors (USO) would go and perform shows for the troops.
- USO was founded by Bob Hope (Famous American Comedian.)
- Joe Brown was the first one to be in the USO.
- Over 7000 shows by 1945.
- Movies were away to escape from reality for awhile.
- The story of "Kilroy was here"
- James Kilroy.
- Ship inspector.
- If he thought the ship was good he would right Kilroy was here.
- There are rumors that the sign is on the moon, the statue of liberty, and just everywhere.
US Fighting:
- -US in Africa
- Involved a lot of tank battles.
- It was a dry, desert area.
- We didn't get directly involved until 2 years after it started but it ended 8 months after we got in.
- After we defeated them they all retreated to Italy.
- Operation Torch. November 1942.
- Like the D Day invasion.
- -US in Italy
- It was Winston Churchill's idea to invade Italy.
- Attacked on the West Coast of Italy.
- Also invaded Sicily July 1943. Operation Husky. Helped end the war in Europe.
- They wanted to get Mussolini out.
- Italy was very easy but also very hard since not only was there Italy troops but also German Troops.
- Italy surrendered 3 months after invasion.
- Germans had control of the mountains.
- -D-Day
- June 6, 1944.
- 4000 men.
- 5 beaches. Sword, Omaha, Juno, Utah, Gold.
- -US bombing of Germany
- Great Britain started bombing before the US got into it.
- When we went to bomb them we would go to places that would help them win the war.
- -VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering
- Europe wanted Germany to sign an unconditional surrender.
- May 7th 1945 tons of people waiting to hear what Churchill had to say.
- He said that the next day would be considered Victory Day in Europe so people celebrated.
- -Battle of Coral Sea
- Happened about 6 months after Pearl Harbor.
- It was a stale mate, but was considered a moral win for the US.
- An airplane battle fighting over the sea.
- -Battle of Midway
- Japan had planed another sneak attack on the US again just 6 months after the Battle of Coral Sea.
- We had intercepted the message so we were prepared.
- It was a win for the US.
- Japan wanted Midway so they could extend their limit of advance. Also it was for the Air Strip.
- -Battle of Iwo Jima
- One of the worst battles for the US in WWII.
- Was a D Day like battle.
- We lost 6,821 people here.
- -Battle of the Philippines
- MacArthur wanted to stay and fight in the Philippines but FDR needed him to leave.
- America POW in the Philippines had to do the Bataan Death March. Many of them died.
- As Japan started losing they began using the Kamikaze which were suicidal aerial bombers.
- MacArthur got to return to the Philippines.
- When he returned we took back the Philippines.
- -Battle of Okinawa
- One of the longest battles since it was a really big island.
- Operation Iceberg.
- 82 days.
- It didn't really end till Japan surrendered.
- One of the most bloodiest battles.
- Manhattan Project
- Einstein had sent a letter to FDR saying he needed to put money and thought into the atomic bomb.
- Manhattan Project was the name of the project to make the atomic bomb.
- Groves was the general in charge of the atomic bomb.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer was the one who put all of the thought into the atomic bomb.
- Los Alamos was the spot where the atomic bomb was made and the Soviet Union had a spy there.
- Trinity was the name of the first testing of the atomic bomb. This was not dropped from an airplane like Hiroshima or Nagasaki it was dropped from a tower, at some points it was hotter and brighter then the sun.
- -Hiroshima bombing
- Little boy.
- Killed between 90-100 thousand people.
- The majority of people died in the first two days. Most of the doctors where killed then as well.
- The rest would die from radiation.
- This bomb had the power of a kiloton of TNT.
- The pilot missed his target by 800 ft.
- U235 (Uranium bomb.)
- -Nagasaki bombing
- Fat Man.
- They didn't want to bomb it originally but because religious and weather conditions it was chosen.
- It was a lot like Hiroshima but it didn't do as much damage.
- 87,000 deaths 60,000 wounded, 35,000 missing.
- 20 tons of explosives.
- Boxcar was the plane that dropped it and as they were leaving the plane's gas pump broke and just barely made it.
- -VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering
- Victory over Japan Day.
- August 14, 1945.
- September 2, official day it was signed.
- Some people in Japan were not okay with that and committed suicide.
- A lot of the American POW were killed.
- -Yalta Conference
- Yalta Conference Compromise.
- February, 1945.
- Germany would be broken into four occupation zones. (US, GB, France, USSR.)
- Stalin promised free election in Eastern Europe.
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after the 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.
- Japan 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 Berlin) and Austria into four occupation zones.
- Prosecution of Nazi war criminals.
- Reverse all German annexations in Europe.
- Reduce Germany in size by 25% compared to its 1937 size.
- Agreement on war reparations with the Soviet Union.
- Get all Germans back in Germany.
- Destroy the industries that made war materials.
- Poland was recognized as being a communist controlled government.
- The Potsdam Declaration: This ultimatum stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction."
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