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Advance Technology In WWII
-Torpedoes was used to destroy submaries & ships fro long distance, b/c bullets couldn't go far and do a lot of damage
-Bombing raids, were ue to destroy anything in a certain area, such as factories that produce military equipment in WWII
-Wolf packs were German Submarines that had mass-attack tactics against convoys. A group of ships warships + submarines that attack a certain target all at once -
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Volunteerism of WWII (Victory Corps)
-Domestic: Homefront both girls and boys from white & African American schools participated .
physical fitness program , enroll in war effort classes volunteer one extracurricular wartime activity
-Warfront efforts was to prepare high school students to ad in the war effort on the homefront & fronties -
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Japan's War Expansion
-Japan wished to replaced European imperialism in Asia WWII the imperialism of an Asian power
-Place & dates Japan involve
Manchuria-1937
Southern Indochina-1941
-Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in the U.S.A by cutting or all trade wit japan -
Rationing
-Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce and goods
-Rationing items were gasoline, tires, meat, butter and jellies
-People had to use "Rationing goods" which were issued to each family based on its size -
M1 Semi-Automatic Rifle & Radar
M1- design of the M1 allowed the americans to fire more shots against their German & Japanese counterparts
Radar- battle were won by the side that was first spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines, the radar helped see hundreads of miles away even at night -
Civilian Defense Organization
-Roosevelt set up the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) to coordinate state and federal measurements to protect civilians in war related emergency. The OCD organized the US citizens Defense corps to recruit and train volunteers to perform essential task. -
Rosie The Riveter
1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. "Rosie the Riveter", star of a govt. campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry, became perhaps the most iconic image of working women during the war -
George Marshall
-Secretary of State, George C. Marshall proposed that massive aid be given to the countries of war-torn Europe to rebuild their economies