Monday- NO School
Tuesday-
- D- Day Facts
- The D in D-Day stands for day since the final invasion date was unknown and weather dependent
- 156,000 Allied Troops
- The Allied code names for the beaches along the 50 mile stretch of Normandy coast targeted for landing were Utah, Omaha, Gold Juno and Sword
- Omaha was ther costliest beach in terms of Allied causualties
- By June 11 with the beachheads firmly secured
- More than 326,000 troops had crosses with more than 100,000 tons of military equipment
- Paris was liberated on August 25
- Germany surrendered May 8, 1945
-Yalta Confrence Fed 1945
- Before the end of the war Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt met at Yalta to plan what should happen after war
- 1. The Establishment of the United Nations
- 2. Germany to be divided into four zones
- 3. Free Elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
- 4. USSR promised to join the war against Japan
- FDR Dies. Harry Truman is sworn in April 12 1945
- The US Homefront
- Women in WW2- Represented women workers in WWII
- Housewives and many women were Nurses
- Farmworkers, typists , waitresses, bus drivers, time keepers, messenagers, teachers, conductores, taxi drivers
- WAVES- Women's Navy, telephone operatators
- WASP- Air Force
- Hollywood and WWII
- Bob Hope and the USO (United Service Organazations Tour)
- Comedians, Actors, Actresses, Singers
- John Wayne
- Kilroy Engraving on everything
- Cartoons- buy war bonds
-Looney Toons
-OPA and Rationing
- The Office of Price administration was established in 1941 to control prices of goods
- Food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon
- Gasoline Rationing began in May 1942 five gallons per week
- Gas rationing was about saving rubber not gas
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