APUSH Chapter 35 - America In World War II

American factories produced an enormous amount of weaponry, such as guns and planes. The War Production Board halted the manufacture of nonessential items such as passenger cars. It assigned priorities for transportation and access to raw materials. Took America out of the Great Depression

Mexican agricultural workers that were brought to American in 1942 to harvest the fruit and grain crops of the West. With the military draft imposed for the war, many farmers were taken from their duty to produce food, so they brought mexicans here to do that for them.

Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Women volunteering for the army would not be given the same rank, pay, or benefits as men who were doing the same thing as them.

1941 - "Negro March on Washington" America's leading black labor leader who called for a march on Washington D.C. to protest factories' refusals to hire African Americans, which eventually led to President Roosevelt issuing an order to end all discrimination in the defense industries. Many of them from the south wanted to come to the North and the West for working opportunities in the industries making weaponry.

commander of the US forces in the Philippine Islands who directed the Allied occupation of Japan.. held out against the invading Japanese force for 5 months. The America troops surrendered on April 9, 1942. They were treated with vicious cruelty in the 80-mile Bataan Death March to prisoner-of-war camps.

An important battle in the Asian part of the war, the Americans sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers. Combined with the Battle of Coral Sea, the U.S. success at Midway halted the powerful Japanese.

naval strategist who lead a smaller carrier at Coral Sea and Midway; commander of Pacific fleet. Led under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, against the powerful invading Japanese fleet.

He decoded Japanese naval codes, planning to knock out the American fleet, but he knew the plans and locations of the Japanese ships. He was the commander of the Pacific Fleet during WW2, and he was the man who directed the U.S. victories at Midway, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa

leader of the Allied forces in Europe then was elected to be Pres. of the USA

The meeting place of Roosevelt and Churchill where they decided to not surrender until the Axis surrendered unconditionally, aport on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco

President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Stalin met in Teheran, to coordinate a second front. One of the most important achievements of the conference was the agreement on broad plans, especially those for launching Soviet attacks on Germany from the east simultaneously with the Allied assault from the west. Double hit on Germany

Allies crossed the English Channel and landed in Normandy, France. The largest land-sea-air operation in history launched to liberate Europe.

American General who pushed German troops into Tunisia and saved the allied forces at the battle of the bulge

The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. They issued an ultimatum to Japan: surrender or be destroyed.

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped. August 9th