1. 25:1 Mobilizing for Defense “Remember Pearl Harbor”

2. Selective Service GI 5 million volunteered after Pearl Harbor 10 million were drafted GIs

3. Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps WAAC 1942 George Marshall Noncombat positions “auxiliary status” allowed for fewer benefits 1943-full salary and benefits

4. Minority Service Dilemma Mexican-high casualty rate African-segregated, noncombat Asian-spies Native Americans

5. Factory production Peace to wartime production Shipyards and liberty ships

6. Hull 440 4 days fabrication

7. Labor and Industrial Needs 18 million working 6 million women – Cheaper 60% 2 million minorities

8. A. Philip Randolph’s March on Washington Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Protest discrimination in industry and military FDR executive order March cancelled

9. Office of Scientific Research and Development OSRD Radar, sonar DDT Penicillin Atomic bomb

10. Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Robert J. Oppenheimer Albert Einstein

11. Office of Price Administration OPA Fought inflation by freezing prices Raised income taxes to help with inflation War bonds

12. Wartime Conservation Carpooling Ride bikes Recycling drives Rationing: meat, sugar, coffee, gas

13. War Productions Board WPB Regulated peace to war production Raw materials recycling

14. Rationing Ration books/coupons

15. 25:2 War for Europe and North Africa “Now that we are, as you say, ‘in the same boat’, would it not be wise for us to have another conference…and the sooner the better.” “It is fun to be in the same decade with you”

16. Battle of the Atlantic Wolf packs patrol Atlantic Prevent food/war materials from reaching GB and USSR

17. Convoy system Convoy System – Radar/sonar Sank U-Boats faster than Germany could build

18. Liberty Ships Single design cargo ships 1 of 2 surviving from WWII 1943-cranking out 140/month

19. June 1941, Hitler invades Soviet union

20. Problem with Invasion

21. Bombing of Stalingrad Nightly bombings “No surrender” Civilians Hand to hand combat Here comes 1942 winter

22. Soviets counter attack at Stalingrad Winter!! Stalin encircles Hitler’s 6 th Turning point casualties

23. Operation Torch 1942 North Africa Dwight Eisenhower Edwin Rommel-Desert Fox – Hitler’s Afrika Korps

24. Casablanca FDR/Churchill Unconditional surrender Churchill- Attack “soft underbelly of Europe”

25. Italian Campaign 1943 Partisan support Military build up in GB Mussolini imprisoned

26. 1943 Fall of Sicily Mussolini imprisoned Hitler busted him out and returned him to power

27. 1943 Bloody Anzio Rome 4 months 25,000 allies 30,000 axis

28. Mussolini’s demise

29. Tuskegee Airmen All black 99 th pursuit squadron Two distinguished unit citation

30. D-Day Operation Overlord June 6, 1944

31. Deception Campaign

32. "I'll see you in the Pas De Calais, Gavin!"Calais

34. Rommel’s Atlantic Wall German fortifications along French coast Deception campaign

35. Normandy Invasion Largest air, land, sea operation in history U.S. Casualties: 1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing and 26 captured.

36. General George Patton “Dear Ike, today I spat in the Seine” U.S. 3 rd Army liberates Paris 1944

37. Battle of the Bulge Goal of Germany Last major German Offensive 1 month to reclaim territory casualties

38. Fall of Berlin April-May 1945 Extremely violent Soviets 82,000 v. German 456,000 Germans want to surrender to GB and US Soviets Liberate death camps

39. Hitler’s Suicide Eva Braun

40. VE Day May 8, 1945 Ike accepts the Unconditional Surrender of the Third Reich