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George Patton
was a senior officer of the united states army who commanded the us seventh army in Mediterranean and European threats of world war 2, but he was best known for his leaderships of U.S -
Axis Powers
On September 27 Americans were notified that Germany,Italy, and Japan had signed a mutual treaty, The Tripartite Pact. they were known as the Axis powers . there main goal was keeping the U.S out of the war. In the treaty they agreed that they would help each other out and in case of an attack that they would defend each other as well. -
Volunteerism of ww2
the victory crops was an american props during ww2 that provided training to male and female HS students focused on there skills relevant to the war effort -
Lend Lease Program
the purpose was to provide U.S military aid to foreign nations during WW2
Factors needed more and more workers to build war machines and helped decrease unemployment.
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Pearl Harbor
The morning of this day Japanese bombed the island of Oahu (Hawaii) in 2 waves of airplanes.
The day after Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan. A famous quote was "A date which will live in Infany"
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Rationing
U.S wanted to ration restrictions on imported foods limitations on transportation of goods due to shortages of aberration and a fabrication hares to soldiers overeat. -
WAC
members of the WAC were the first woman other than nurses to serve within the united state army because they were able to supply the additional sorceress so desperately needed in the military and industrial stated. -
Waves
During the ww2 WAVES was a acronym for Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
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War Bonds
Known as debt securities for the purpose of financing military operations during war time, the bonds yielded a m mere 2.9 percent return after a 10 year maturity. Living in the U.S with a median income during the ww2 meant earning about 2,000 a year. Despite the wars hardships, 134 million Americans were asked to purchase war bonds to help fund the war. Stamps also could be purchased, starting at 10 cents each, to save toward the bond -
Douglas MacArthur
star general , commander of the south west pacific and invaded the island of let-ye in October 1944 to avenge Americans defeat in the Philippines. He applies his military actions with island hopping to help relieve POWs from the Bataan Death March -
George Patton
General George Smith Patton Jr was a senior officer of the U.S. Army who commanded the US seventh army in the mediterian and European theaters of WW2 , but he was best known for his leadership of U.S -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was the 34th president of the US, prior to his presidency Eisenhower was a life long military man, commanding the D-Day evasion while serving as supreme Allied commander in Europe during the ww2 -
George Marshall
he was an american statesman and soldier he was chief on staff for the us army under FDR and Truman. Served as secretary of state and defense under Truman he hired as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill. -
Omar Bradley
He was highly distinguished senior traffic of the us army who saw bad service in north Africa and western Europe during ww2, he was also known as a top general during d-day. -
Code Talkers
the american military needed an undecipherable code to communicate that could not be boxed by the Japanese. The language is unwritten and extremely complex by using the language american forces could transmit messages by telephone and radio with out the Japanese.