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Manhattan Project
a secret project that america was working after being informed that Germany has been working on a nuclear bomb. the projects goal was to make nuclear bombs to help us win the war, we didn't know what it does or how powerful it is (tested it on our homeland) -
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Manhattan Project
the US started to explore in nuclear weapons after they got the information that Germany was starting to make a new weapon. it was a very big secret and at the end it helped us defeat Japan -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler made a secret agreement with Stalin to split Poland, Germany took over their side of Poland using blitzkrieg (lightning warfare). -
War Bonds
the government started selling war bonds to increase the funding for the war. -
Pearl Harbor
japan planned for every a year on how to bomb the military base in Hawaii, it was one of the most well constructed air attacks in history, but they missed the main target which was the air craft carriers because they was out. -
Rosie the Riveter
as an increasing number of American men were recruited for the war effort, women were needed to fill their positions in factories. Initially, women workers were recruited from among the working class, but, as the war production needs increased, it became necessary to recruit workers from among middle-class women.Rosie the Riveter was part of this propaganda campaign and became the symbol of women in the workforce during World War II. -
Midway
The first official victory for the US in the Pacific, turned the war around -
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operation fortitude
Fortitude was a massive operation of deception conducted by the Allied Forces to lead the Germans to believe that they would be landing in Pas-de-Calais, where France and England were closest, or in Norway, because Hitler and his cronies thought this most probable. -
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Operation Overload
Operation Overlord , the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. best known today as “D-Day”, the operation saw Allied forces landing on the beaches of Normandy in Nazi-occupied France in huge numbers. By the end of the day, the Allies had established a foothold on the French coastline. -
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was the only major engagement of the Pacific War in which U.S. casualties, killed and wounded, outstripped the total of Japanese dead. and the landscape made it hard for americans to spot the Japanese. -
little boy
the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima -
Fat man
was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki just 3 days after little man. killed over 39,000–80,000 people -
Unconditional Surrender
the US wanted to have Japan surrender without them having any say in what happens to their country. japan was trying everything they can to change the terms of the surrender but the US assured to get the Unconditional Surrender because with the type of government that japan had, if they kept the same government it was bound to happen again