Week of March 23-27

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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