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European Theater
A large area of fighting across Europe from the start of the war to the end. -
Lend-Lease program
The Lend-lease program allowed the U.S. to send war supplies to aliied nations to support the war. -
Committee on Fair Employment Practices (FEPC)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 on June 25, 1941, which created the Committee on Fair Employment Practices (FEPC). This banned racial discrimination in employment of the defense industry. -
Manhattan Project
The code name given to the secret U.S. construction of the atomic bomb. This was in a response to the German scientists discovering a way to split a uranium atom. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
A fleet of Japanese bombers surprise attacked the naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This is the main cause of the U.S. entering WWII. -
A. Philip Randolph & Double V campaign
The Double V campaign encouraged African Americans to fully participate in the war effort and also encouraged the government to allow for equal rights in the war. A. Phillip Randolph threatened a march on Washington which convinced the government to ban racial segregation in the work place. -
Internment of Japanese-Americans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans
The U.S. government responded to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by issuing the Executive Order 9066 which allowed for the removal of Japanese, Germans, and Italians into camps. -
Pacific Theater
A major part of WWII fighting between the allies and Japan in the Pacific Ocean. -
Battle of MIdway
The Battle of Midway was a very important naval win for the U.S. over Japan in WWII. -
America's war mobilzation
The women took the mens job in the workplace to support the war because all of the men were overseas. Some of the goods were rationalized so that some of them could be sent to the soldiers. America prepared for the war by acquiring troops and supplies and selling war bonds and victory bonds. -
D-day
On this day, atleast 160,000 allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to attack the Germany army. -
Fall of Berlin
The soviet Union army marched into Berlin and pushed the remaining German forces out and captured Berlin.
