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calkled on African Americans everywhere to come to the capital and march under the banner "We Loyal Colored Americans Demand the Rightt to Work and Fight for Our Country."
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The United States would supply Japan with oil and other essentials even though they were allys
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In 1940/1941 embargoes cut off the supplies going to Japan
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Japenese bombers attacked without any warning
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3000 casualties and destruaction of air and sea craft
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Churchhill arrives at the White House and stays for the next three weeks working out war plans with Roosevelt.
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in the first four months of 1942 the germans sank 87 ships off the Atlantic shore
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American newspapers reported about the end of automobile production for private use only. last car was a gray sedan.
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Roosevelt signed an order requiring the removal of poeple of Japenese ancestry from Cali and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona
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he left the Pjilippines with his wife, son, and staff
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Womens Auxiliary Army Corps became a law.
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this law gave the WAACs an offical status and salary but few of the benefits granted to male soldiers.
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his scout planes found the Japenese fleet
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German wolf packs destroyed a total of 681 Allied ships in the Atlantic
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107000 troops, mostly americans, landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algriers in North Africa
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Henry built seven massive new shipyards that turned out Liberty ships,tankers, troop transports, and baby aircraft carriers.
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early 1943 there were 140 ships produced each month
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African Americans saw combat beginnings
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Thousands of women enlisted, us army dropped the "auxiliary" status and granted WACs full US army benefits. WACs worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, and pilots.
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Americans captured their first german town, Aachen
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US marines invaded Okinawa
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he did not live to see VE day. Roosevelt was posing for a portrait in Georgia, the president had a stroke and died. Harry truman became president
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the soviet army stormed Berlin
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Hitler married Eva Braun on the same day he wrote out his last address to the german poeple which he blamed the Jews in for starting the war
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Allies celebrated VE day. victory in Europe day. the war was finally over
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fighting ended and more than 7600 americans had died
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first test of the new bomb in a desert in New Mexico
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ordered military to make final plans for droppiung two atomic bombs on Japenese targets.
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In 1965 congress authorized the spending of $38 million
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In 1978 it called for the payment of reparations or restituion to each individual that suffered internment
