Chpater 16 WWII

  • War industry

    War industry
    The War Industries Board was a wartime agency of 1917–1918 designed to coordinate the war role of American industry.
  • start of war

    start of war
    Start of War (Germnay Invaded Poland)
  • Lend-Lease

    Lend-Lease
    President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941. It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise
  • Atlantic charter

    Atlantic charter
    US president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill sign the „Atlantic Charter
  • bomb

    bomb
    Japanese bomb of Pearl Harl
  • WAAC

    WAAC
    Congress approved the creation of a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC).
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    D-Day- Normandy Invas
  • liberation

    liberation
    The Auschwitz main camp, the Birkenau death camp and the Monowitz labor camp were liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union in the First Army of the Ukrainian Front, under the command of Marshal Koniev, on January 27, 1945.
  • conference

    conference
    The Yalta Conference was held February 4-11, 1945, and was the last wartime meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.
  • President

    President
    Truman becomes president
  • Hitlers Death

    Hitlers Death
    Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.
  • papers signed

    papers signed
    Formal surrender papers signed- Japan
  • V E Day

      V E Day
    V E Day- Germans surrender
  • project

    project
    The Manhattan Project conceived and created the first nuclear weapons and before using them in combat tested them just once in the Trinity test
  • koremastu

    koremastu
    The decision in Korematsu v. United States has been very controversial.[2] Korematsu's conviction for evading internment was overturned on November 10, 1983, after Korematsu challenged the earlier decision by filing for a writ of coram nobis.