Monday- presented great Britain
united states-
Homefront-
- factories switched to military products
- women started to work (rosie the riveter)
- food rationing
- war bonds
casualties-
- around 420,000 military deaths
why the US won the war
- germany invading the soviet union
- battle of normandy
- bombing of hiroshima and nagaski
- more resources
battle of the buldge-
- 1944
- hitlers last major offensive
Tuesday-
Us battle strategies
- island hopping
- attacking weaker points of europe first
- placing and embargo on all trade with japan
FDR-
- Us president
- declared war on Japan
- increased support of brritain- lend lease act
- declared the four freedoms
- met frequently with winston church hill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1941 became general
- led operation over lord (one of the D DAY INVASIONS)
- operation torch was code name for the invasions of northern aferica
us allied powers
- Main powers
- great britain, soviert union, US, china, france
US after WW1
- Us never signed the treaty of versaillies
THe us went back to focusing on america in the 1920s and 1930s
5 power pacts
-signed by gereat britain
-designed to prevent an arms race
-it is limited the construction of battleships,
9 power pacts-
upheld the open door policly
-signed by the US
- the us did sign the kellogg briand pact denouncing war and mean to settle duisputes
- Neutrality in general
End of neutrality lend lease act
the end of neutrality elend dlease act
Wednesday-
Wilsons 14 points
atlantic charter- focused on defeating germany
-defined the allied goals for the post-war world
potsdam conference- july 1945
US GB and china issued the potsdam declaration
announced terms for japans surrender
operation torch invasion or morocco
yalta conference feb 1945
establishement of the united nations
germany to be dived into four zones
free eelctions allowed in the stae of eastern eurpope
russia proimsed to join war against japan
women iN WWII
-nursing
Thursday-
Friday
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