- 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.
- 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'
- Bombing
- Bombing.
- 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.
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