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Chapter 17

Chapter 17. At Home and Abroad During the War. America Joins the War. Volunteers Training Women WAAC Minorities Many fight w/distinction. Production. What happens to Industry? What does this mean? “Rosy the Riveter” Minorities

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Chapter 17

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  1. Chapter 17 At Home and Abroad During the War

  2. America Joins the War • Volunteers • Training • Women • WAAC • Minorities • Many fight w/distinction

  3. Production • What happens to Industry? • What does this mean? • “Rosy the Riveter” • Minorities • Discrimination is so bad that something needs to be done • FDR will diffuse this • Science

  4. Government Control • OPA • Why is it needed • P. 567 • WPB • Rationing • What is the people’s response to all of this?

  5. The US and GB • Churchill and FDR • Their Decision? • The Battle for the Atlantic • Wolf Pack vs. Convoy • Radar • Sonar

  6. In the East • Germany had been in the SU for a long time • Fighting had been very brutal • Stalingrad • Oil • Stalin not willing to give up • Result?

  7. North Africa • Allies are thinking • What is the problem? • What is the result? • Eisenhower • Rommel • Montgomery • On to Italy • Tuskegee Airmen

  8. Liberation of Europe • D-Day • Bradley and Patton • Battle of the Bulge • Unconditional Surrender * • Death Camps • FDR Dies • Truman • The “Bomb”

  9. The Pacific • Fighting is a disaster early on (1942) • Philippines • Bataan • Coral Sea • Midway • Chester Nimitz • Island-hopping • The Navajo

  10. Japanese Defense • Guadalcanal • Leyte Gulf • Kamikaze • Iwo Jima • Okinawa • Manhattan Project • Oppenheimer • Hiroshima/ Nagasaki

  11. Back to “Normal” • Dealing with the aftermath • Yalta Conference • Problems • Results • Nuremberg Trials • Tokyo Trials • Occupation of Japan • MacArthur (7 yrs)

  12. In the US during War • We will really see how good things are after the war • Opportunities for everyone • Population Shifts • Social Issues • GI Bill of Rights • Discrimination • Black, Asian, Hispanic

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