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-The US Homefront
- Women's role
- Rosie the Riveter - represented women workers in WWII
- needed as farmers, typist, timekeepers, elevator operators, messangers, teachers, search light operators
- WASP- Womens Army Service Pilots
- Factories-War Production Board
- lots of war goods and production
- more production
- National War Labor Board
- worker and owner
- picture of 3 hands
- no going on strike
- Together we win
- War bonds
- How we paid for the war
- every person has to buy so many war bonds. make money off of interest down the road
- Japanese relocation camps
- were american citizens who were forced to sell everything and sent to relocation camps in western US
- wasnt German concentration camps
- kids went to school and adults had paying jobs
- Propaganda
- meant to pursued the american people
- 1. Buy War Bonds
- 2. Get people to enlist
- 3. Make US look good and Germany Bad
- 4. Do your part today
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration
- controlled distribution of resources and services
- War Ration book
- war rationing was so rich people couldnt buy it all and control it
- gas, food, and resources
- had stickers for different amounts of gas
- Hollywood in WWII
- propaganda
- making germany and japan look bad
- The story of "Kilroy was here"
- some graffiti
US Fighting:
-US in Africa
- Morrocco, Algeria, Egypt, Tonesia, Libea
- Axis- Mainly Italy, but some Germany and Vishy France
- Allied- GB, US, Free French
- a lot of resources in africa that Italy had control of and we wanted to stop them
- from June 1940 to may 1943
- Operation Torch- Nov 8, 1942. we invaded two or three cities in Moroco and we took it over easily
- Erwin Rommel- "The Desert Fox" one of the best german military leaders
- George Patton- one of the most famous US general. leader in Africa and DDay
-US in Italy
- First they moved into Sicily
- mostly german and Italian soldiers there
- surendered very quickly
- invaded in 1943
- Germany still controlled apenine mountains in Italy
-D-Day
- June 6, 1944
- Largest operation to ever take place
- invaded France because Germany had control
- Hitler was building the Atlantic Wall - a defense against an attack
- we delayed it once- but not twice cuz we didnt want Hitler to find out
- 3 commanders- Ike, Patton and Bradley
-US bombing of Germany
- US and Royal Air Force bombed Germany
- used fire bombs
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering
- Invaded Berlin and Hitler killed himself
- VE day was on May 8th 1945
- when Germany surrendered
-Battle of Coral Sea
- Kind of a draw, but we stopped their advance
- saved Australia
- we knew attack because of Magic
- 1942
-Battle of Midway
- most famous battle in Pacific
- Chester Nimitz - Admiral of the Navy
- next month after Coral Sea
- Magic helped us
- a resounding victory for us
-Battle of Iwo Jima
- month long battle
- bloodiest battle in the Pacific
- bombed them some
- they were dug in
- Flag raising
-Battle of the Philippines
- US territory
- December 7, 1941 the Japanes bombed Phillipines too
- Japan took over
- Batan death march
- MacArthur return to the Philippines
-Battle of Okinawa
- did this one
-Hiroshima bombing
- Mannhattan project- codename for atomic bomb project
- General Groves and a scientist named James Oppenheimer were in charge
- developed in Los Alamos, New Mexico
- detonated in Alamogordo, New Mexico
- Test bomb was known as Trinity
- Enola Gay was the name of the plane
- piloted by Paul Tibbetts
- codenamed "little boy"
-Nagasaki bombing
- "Fat Man" was name of bomb
- Bockscar
- Nagasaki was like 5th on the list
- had many problems
- mountanous terrain
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering
- August 14, 1945 VJ day
- September 2nd 1945 the Japanese and US sign document on USS Missouri
-Yalta Conference
- February, 1945
- Germany would be broken into 4 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
- 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
- Prosecution of Nazi war criminals
- REverse all German annexations in Europe, including Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, Autria, and the westernmost parts of Poland
- Reduce Germany in size by 25%
- removal of the German population in Eastern countries
- war reputations to Soviet Union
- Destruction/Take control of German industries that made war materials
- Poland was recognized as being a communist controlled gov't
- The Potsdam Declaration: This ultimatum stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction"
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