1. WORLD WAR II

2. Getting Ready at Home

3. Industry Gets On Board Cost-Plus: fast, fast, fast
Cost plus guaranteed %-age of cost as profit
Auto factories => tanks, planes, trucks, jeeps
Other factories: guns, bullets, pontoon bridges, etc.
Ford’s B-24 bomber plant in Michigan

4. War Production Board (WPB)
Oversaw Productivity
Set Production goals
Distributed raw mats
No strikes
Unions
Support later?

5. Building an Army Selective Service and Training Act (SSA)
1st draft in peace time (1940)
“GI”
1.8 million in first year
Eventually 15 million
Draft & volunteer combined

6. Other Homefront Factors
Women go to work
Shipbuilding, airplane &
weapons manufacturing
clerical
Double-V and FEPC
African-Americans in wartime

7. Japanese Internment “Danger to America” Spring ‘42
How were they a danger?
Issei/Nisei
10 camps
Calif
Utah
Wyoming
Arkansas
120k total
Possessions gone
1988

8. WW2 Fighting Topics

9. Japanese Strategy in Pacific
MIDWAY ISLAND

10. The Battle of Midway (6/4/1942)
1. U.S. Defense ready
2. Japanese lost 4 largest carriers
a. Heart of their fleet
3. Japanese advance stopped
4. Turning pt  Jap play defense for
next 3 years

11. Island Hopping in the Pacific
Chapter 27, Section 5

12. Decision to Drop the Bomb
1. March ’45: Napalmed Tokyo; no surrender
2. Reasons for using bomb: Invasion will = massive casualties
* Also scare USSR for after split?
3. Reasons against: kill too many innocents/world opinion
4. Potsdam Declaration (7/26/45)
a. “prompt and utter destruction”
5 . Aug. 6, 1945: Enola Gay drops bomb
a. Hiroshima (Little Boy)
b. 80k killed, many more die later
6. Aug. 9: Bombing of Nagasaki (Fat Man)
a. 40k killed
7. Aug. 14: V-J Day

14. Japan Surrenders