Chapter 27 World War Two Major battles/People to know

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Chapter 27 World War Two Major battles/People to know Col. Jimmy Doolittle – Raid over Tokyo 1942 Battle of the Coral Seas (first aircraft carrier battle, saved Australia) Midway (major naval battle, took out 5 Japanese aircraft carriers) Guadalcanal (bloody six-month battle on Pacific Island ends in U.S. victory

Major Battles/People. Cont'd African war: Desert Rats (British General Montgomery) v. Desert Fox (German General Erwin Rommel), Casablanca landing Italian Campaign (Patton and Montgomery) Air war in Europe (B-17 Flying Fortresses): America by day, British by night D-Day, June 6, 1944: Invasion of France on Normandy peninsula Battle of the Bulge (Bastogne: “nuts”)

Major Battles/People, Cont'd Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower C-in-C of Atlantic theater Yalta Conference: Alger Hiss, along with Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt Stalingrad: Major battle on Eastern Front Gen. Douglas MacArthur: C-in-C of Pacific theater Philippines: Marianas Turkey Shoot Manhattan Project Tokyo Firebombings with B-29 Superfortresses

The War at Home Japanese-Americans interned at concentration camps Treated humanely Allowed not to be interned if they move away from the three Pacific states Supreme Court validates the clearly unconstitutional detainment in Korematsu v. U.S. Congress authorizes a $20,000 payment to Japanese-Americans

Japanese-American Internment

Race and the War Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 that prohibited racial discrimination in the armed forces (setting up Harry Truman's executive order ending segregation in the armed forces after the war). Dorie Miller Tuskegee Airmen

The War at Home, cont'd Women take a larger role in industry and support for troops Rosie the Riveter WACS (Women's Army Corps), WAVES, SPAR, etc.

Financing the War Debt grows to more than 120 percent of GDP (today, it's only 100 percent of GDP) War bonds circulated Rationing imposed across nation Sugar Gasoline Etc. (Rationing repealed after war)

Financing the War, cont'd U.S. industrial capacity grows dramatically during war as war materials are produced at maximum levels. Europe and the rest of the world's economies are devastated by the war. At the end of the War, the U.S. represents nearly half of the entire world GDP. (Gross Domestic Product, the value of everything produced in a year) Lend Lease: U.S. lends out some $41 billion to Britain, $11 billion to Soviet Union, additional billions to China and other allies.