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World war ii begins
The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. -
Mobilizing armed forces
Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in the nations history. The selective trainig and service act required all males ages 21 -36 to register for military service. We also boosted our defense spending from 2 billion at the start of the year to 10billion in september. -
setting the scene
President roosevelt made his conserns and worries clear to the amercan people over the raido in december 1940. He stated in his adress that the axis nation exspeasilly germany, posed a direct threat to the united states secuirty. He appealed to american business owners and workers to supprt britans defense efforts or face the ulitimate task of defending their own land against the axis. -
Preparing the econmy for war
The united states entered the war ar a time when the production of our nation and other allies have droped sharply. Bombing and advances of german troops affected production in britian. Roosevelt pushed indistries to move and produce more quickly inton the production of war equipment -
Attack on pearl harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, the U.S. naval station in Hawaii. Within days the United States was at war with Japan, Germany, and Italy. The nation's military, relatively small and ill-equipped for war at the time, was expanded quickly through recruitment and the draft. Eventually a fighting force of some eight million soldiers would be trained and equipped. -
United states delacres war
the United States Congress declared war upon the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. It was formulated an hour after the Infamy Speech presidential address of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Germany declares war on united states
Germany declared war upon the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was formally neutral during World War II. -
Our troops were ready
we had 3,075,608 enlisted in the army. 640,570 in the navy. 142,613 in the marines. And we had 56,716* i the coastgaurd. in total we had 3,915,507 Troops ready for war. -
American indusrties got it acompished
By the summerof 1942, almost all major industries and some 200,000companies had converted to war production. Togetherthey made the nation’s wartime “miracle” possible. All automobile compaines prouduced tanks, jeeps, and rifles. -
World war 2 ends
The war is over
