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Americas War Mobilization
This is when America took action and decided to join the war,but first, men and women would have to change they way that they live. the women tooki mens jobs in factories and the men were drafted to war. the women would make weapons, tanks, air crafts, and food preparations. The war time productions board was created to keep prices of low low due to rationing, which also became a big deal due to the United states still being in the depression and having little food already. -
Germany invades Poland - Start of WW2
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European Theater
this was the area of fighting during WW2 which started when Germany attacked poland. -
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Pcaific Theater
This was the area in the pacific ocean region in which the Japenese and the Americans fought to keep land and to prevent invasions. -
A. Phillip Randolph& Double V Campaign
Randolph was the founder of the march on washington and a civil rights activist and also formed a group to fight against segregation of black men in the army and at home. 1941-1945 -
Lend Lease Program
President Roosevelt signed this into law so that America could lend goods (tanks, weapons, food, etc.) to other allied countries and in return, the countries who we gave to goods too would pay the U.S back more money than what they made it for. this was done to not only help the allies, but to get the U.S out of the depression -
Lend Lease Act Cartoon
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FDRs response and passage of fair employment practice commitee
the signing of the document led to the ban of segregation and racial discrimination in any work place who gets federal contacts for work. this came in response to Randolphs civil rights actions. -
Pearl Harbor
A day that will live in infamy! Japenese fighter plane pilots attacked pearl harbor and destroyed most of the U.S navy and air force utilities and led to the U.S declaring war on Japan. FDRs famous speech on December 8th 1941, was when he addressed the nation and declared that that date will live in infamy and that the U.S is going to war with Japan and the Axis powers. -
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Internment of Japenese Americans, German Americans, and italian Americans
FDR signs the executive order 9066 and creates internment camps for those americans who are from the axis power countries. The Japenese Americans were target the most due to Pearl Harbor and the Beleive that there are Japenese spies in the U.S to relay national intellegance back to Japan, which would lead to the destruction of U.S goods and ships by The Japenese at Pearl Harbor. The German and Italian Americans were not affected as much as the Japenese. -
Battle of Mid Way
MidWay took place six months after the japanese attacks on pearl harbor, the U.S beat Japan in the paciffic after they decoded messages and were able to prevent Japan from invading and controlling near by countries in the paciffic ocean. This battle defeated Japans navy and was a crucial win for the allied powers to become an offensive threat.
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Allied and Axis Powers Map
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D-Day
American, British, and Canadian troops stormed a 50 mile long stretch of Frances coast which was heqavily guarded. The D-Day invasion was the largest water military assults. The U.S created a large scale deception campaign to make Germany thinks that they would attack some where else. The Allied powers liberated France by August 1944 and D-Day was called the begining of the end of the war in Europe. -
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Fall of Berlin
The communist Soviet Union sent large amounts of troops and tanks and air crafts intio berlin and suprised Hitler and the German army. -
Manhattan Project
This was the research and testing of nuclear weapons for use in WW2 to help end the war. on August 6, 1945, America put its work tot eh test and dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Japan. -
Manhattan Project Video
