- 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.
- Men
- Oppenheimer and Groves- He is a communist. True communist.
- General in charge.
- "Make a name for yourself"
- He was later redeemed.
- Los Alamos- Had a spy there.
- Hiroshima
- It killed between 90 and 100 thousand people the first two days.
- Half the deaths happened the first two days.
- 90 Percent of Doctors and Nurses died.
- Radiation- Killed. Fires- Being burned.
- 15 Kilo Tons- Bomb.
- Missed it's target by 800 feet.
- Paul Tibbits waves.
- Bomb was made out of titanium. "Little Boy" bomb.
- Both times: Only drop if you can see what your hitting.
- Camera Plane got messed up: Only messed up part of the entire thing.
- Nagasaki
- "Fat man" bomb.
- 5th place to be chosen.
- Cancel for religious reasons.
- A lot like Hiroshima but didn't do as much damage.
- 40 Percent was destroyed.
- 87,000 people died.
- It weighed 10,000 pounds.
- When they were leaving, gas went out.
- Everything went wrong for this mission as much.
- Platinum made.
- VJ Day
- Victory over Japan.
- August 15th '45 -Japan 15th here 14th.
- Surrendered because of bombs.
- People didn't agree and killed themselves. -Japan.
- American Prisoners that were there had gotten killed.
- Two Conferences
- Yalta Conference.
- Yalta is in the Soviet Union.
- Three months before VE Day.
- Germany would be broken into four occupation zones. (US, Great Britain, 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.
- Temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
- Japan would surrender to Great Britain in the south and China in the north.
- Germany- Going to be split in 4 ways.
- Goals of the occupation of Germany: Demilitarization, Denazification, Democratization.
- Division of Germany (and Berlin)
- Prosecution of Nazi war criminals.
- Reverse all German annexations in Europe, including Sudetenland, Alsace- Lorraine, Austria, and the westernmost parts of Poland.
- Reduce Germany in size by approx. 25 percent compared to it's 1937 borders.
- Removal of the German populations remaining beyond the new eastern borders of Germany.
- Agreement on war reparations to the Soviet Union.
- Destruction/ Take control of German industries that made war materials.
- Poland was recognized as being a communist controlled government.
- The Potsdam Declaration: The ultimatum stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction"
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