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Tuesday April 2nd

National War Labor Board- the workers, the owners of the companies, and the government came together to ensure that workers did not go on strike.

-The US Homefront

Women's role

worked in the factories for the men who were fighting in the war; factories

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Tuesday April 2, 2013

Battle of the Phillipeans

  • Japan invaded the island because they wanted a base against the United States
  • Douglas McArthur was over there and he was ordered to leave to go Australia
  • When he got to Australia he vowed to return to the Phillipeans

 

  • Surrender
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April 2, 2013

Today, we continued our blog #5 discussion.

-Battle of the Philippines

  • Japan invaded the island for base operations against America
  • General McArthur
  • ordered to leave to go to Australia
  • got to Australia and gave a speech and said that he shall return and h
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Tuesday, April 2

The US Homefront- what the people did back home during war effort

  • Women's role-
    • factory work and helped win the war. They became nurses everywhere. WAVES- Women Navy like secretary and anything not combat.
  • Factories-War Production Board
    • We made many thin
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Tuesday April, 2

  • Women's role

-Women were afraid to get big muscles by working in the factories.

-Women started to take over the factories so we could produce more supplies.

-They wanted women to help in the war by farmworking, salespersons, busdrivers, messengers, teac

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Tuesday April 2, 2013

May 18, 1945- DATE not for bombs

Manhattan project- (has to do with the atomic bomb)- leslie groves was going to be put in charge of scientists to create the atomic bomb- he chose Oppenheimer to be his lead scientists- The tested the first bomb ever i

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4/2/13

today we talked about the nukes. we first dropped a bomb then when japan did not surrender we doped another.

even though the second one was bigger it did less damage.  the islands they bombed were not the ideal but they were almost out of gas.

VJ day i

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Woman's role

  • The woman would do anything they could to get there husbands back.
  • Stayed home
  • WASP-Woman Army service Pilots

War Production Board

  • US production of goods
  • US became a world Power
  • make as much stuff as possible
  • The workers and the Unions working t
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Tuesday, April 2

Battle of the Philippines:

  • General MacArthur

VE Day

  • May 8th 1945-Berlin
  • Surrender of Germany
  • Ended the war in Europe
  • Hitler had committed suicide so someone else had to surrender.

War production Board

  • People made things faster
  • More production
  • people who made c
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Tuesday April 2, 2013

-War Production Board

  • it made things for the war faster
  • people who were constructing cars, started construction tanks
  • the goal was to try to encourage people to make war materials and make them fast
  • factories no longer made consumer goods, they made war
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April 2,2013

Today we reviewed other blog topics.
VE-day-- may 18.1945 is when germany surrendered.
battle of the phillpines. we were ordered to leave.. but the generak at this time vowed that he would be back. he returned and we eventually took back the phillipin

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