Expanding the Draft Chapter 17 Section 1 Expanding

– Expanding the Draft Chapter 17 – Section 1 • Expanding the Military for Defense • George Mobilizing Marshall • Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps – Nurses, drivers, radio operators, electricians, pilots • Recruiting and Discrimination • Dramatic Contributions – Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-American

A Production Miracle • The Industrial Response – Production halt – Convert to war production • Labor’s Contribution – Worker shortage? – Prejudice – Women and Minorities – A. Phillip Randolph • Roosevelt’s executive order • Mobilization of Scientists – – Office of Scientific Research and Development Albert Einstein Advisory Committee on Uranium Manhattan Project

The Federal Government Takes Control • Economic Controls – Office of Price Administration (OPA) • Freezing Prices • Raised Income Tax • War Production Board (WPB) – Converting to wartime production – Drives for war goods • Rationing – Personal Contribution

Chapter 17 – Section 2 The War for Europe and North Africa • The United States and Britain • Join Forces War Plans – Churchill and Roosevelt meet • The Battle of the Atlantic – German submarine raids – Convoy system – Battle of the Atlantic turns

The Eastern Front and The Mediterranean • The Battle of Stalingrad – – – Industrial center Winter strikes, Soviet counterattack German surrender – turning point – – Dwight D. Eisenhower Surrender, May 1943 – – – Meeting in Casablanca Capture of Sicily, Mussolini resigns Bloody Anzio • The North African Front • The Italian Campaign • Heroes in Combat – Minority Contribution

The Allies Liberate Europe D-Day • Calais and Omaha Beach • The Allies Gain Ground • -Omar Bradley and St. Lo -George Patton and Paris The Battle of the Bulge – Last German offensive • Liberation of the Death Camps – Majdanek • Unconditional Surrender – Hitler’s suicide – V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) • Roosevelt’s Death

Chapter 17 The War in the Pacific Section 3

The Allies Stem the Japanese Tide • Japanese Advances • • • -Douglas Mac. Arthur Doolittle’s Raid Battle of the Coral Sea The Battle of Midway -Chester Nimitz -Battle of Midway

The Allies Go on the Offensive • The Japanese Defense • Iwo Jima • The Battle for Okinawa

The Atomic Bomb Ends the War • The Manhattan • Project -J. Robert Oppenheimer Hiroshima & Nagasaki -Hiroshima -Nagasaki

Rebuilding Begins • The Yalta Conference • The Nuremberg War • Trials The Occupation of Japan

Chapter 17 The Home Front Section 4

Opportunity and Adjustment • Economic Gains • Population Shifts • Social Adjustments -GI Bill of Rights

Discrimination and Reaction • Civil Rights Protests • -James Farmer -Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Tension in Los Angeles

Internment of Japanese Americans -Internment -Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)