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* *Cost-Plus: fast, fast * Cost plus guaranteed %-age of cost as profit *Auto

*War Production Board (WPB) * Oversaw Productivity * Set Production goals * Distributed raw

* *Selective Service and Training Act (SSA) * 1 st draft in peace time

* *Women go to work * Shipbuilding, airplane & weapons manufacturing * clerical *Double-V

* *“Danger to America” *Spring ‘ 42 *How were they a danger? *Issei/Nisei *10

*The Battle of Midway (6/4/1942) * * * 1. U. S. Defense ready 2.

*Decision to Drop the Bomb * * * 1. March ’ 45: Napalmed Tokyo;

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* *Cost-Plus: 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

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

* *Selective Service and Training Act (SSA) * 1 st draft in peace time (1940) * “GI” * 1. 8 million in first year *Eventually 15 million * Draft & volunteer combined

* *Women go to work * Shipbuilding, airplane & weapons manufacturing * clerical *Double-V and FEPC * African-Americans in wartime

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

* MIDWAY ISLAND

*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

* Chapter 27, Section 5

*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. 80 k killed, many more die later 6. Aug. 9: Bombing of Nagasaki (Fat Man) a. 40 k killed 7. Aug. 14: V-J Day