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Holocaust (Social)
A genoside, mass murder of Jewish people, gypsies, Jeovah Witnesses, homosexuals, and desabled were persecuted. Killed more than 11,000 people, 6,000 of them were jews. -
NYE Committee (Economic)
A committee established to research the structure, activities, and profits of the munitions industry and how the US played a part in that. It failed to prove that the arm manufactorers were forcing the US to participate in the war. -
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Army Enllistments (Social)
More than 9 million Americans enlisted in the US Army, over 62,000 of those courageous men and woman were from Kansas. These brave men and woman helped fight for our county and their desired to defeat the enemy is what lead to our victory. -
Manhattan Project (Military)
The Manhattan Project was a secret operation that was conducted to research and make a viable atomic bomb. This nuclear bomb would be used to end the war against Germany, but was actually used to make Japan surrender and end WWII. -
Cash and Carry (Economic)
FDR's policy to export goods to the Allied nations in the war, while staying neutral. The American ships wouldn't be delivering the goods, if the countries wanted to buy supplies off of them they had to bring their own ships and pay in cash. This helped the American Economy greatly! -
Neutrality Act of 1939 (Political)
Allowed the US to provide arms and war ulitity to the Allied nations participating in WWII. This led to other policys that involved the US with the war, and eventually made them join. -
Keynesian Economics (Economics)
government was much more controlling and was very involved with industries and private buinesses. This created 17 million jobs corporation profits went up to a 70% and real industrial wages also increased to 50%. IT also closed the gap between the rich and the poor, by creating the middle class. -
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Battle of the Atlantic (Military)
The Allies struggle to supply Britain in order for them to continue fighting. The battle concisted of German U-boats trying to blockade Britain, but it didn;t work because Americans counter attacked and began to take down their U-boats and their air force. -
Two Ocean Naval Expansion Act (Economic)
Increase in Naval tonnage aswell as expansion and an expansion in the naval air capacity. This also provided many new job opportunities that benefited the economy. -
Largest Manufactore of Arments (Economic)
During WW2 the US was the largest manufacturer, the y produced the most and would export all of it to Allied nations. Many jobs were created from this which was ver beneficiary to the economy. -
Lend Lease Act (Economic)
FDR's plan was to supply to those countries whos security was vital to the United States. This supply of arms to other countries helped the US economy greatly along with the fact that the nation was protected. -
Selling of War Bonds (Economic)
The war bonds helped supply the money for WWII they were sold at banks and offices, they often collected by young children and they were also the publics contribution and support of the war. Buying bonds and stamps was a patriotic duty to the nation, it benifited the economy and help fund the war. -
US Embargo on Japan (Economy)
FDR's oil embargo on Japan ended all economic relations with them. They took away the oil and as a result Japan bombed Pearl harbor, dragging the US into the World War. -
Atlantic Charter (Political)
A statement issues early in WWII that summed up all the goals and priorities for after the war. The significance of this pivotal policy was that it had layed out everything that woiuld happen post-war so that there would be no misunderstanding. -
Pearl Harbor (Military)
Japanese bombed the U.S. naval base in Hawaii. This all occured because the U.S. put an embargo act on Japan and refuse to export to them. -
War Production Board (Social)
A government agency which's purpose was to regulate production of materials and fuel. This created jobs for the American people and benifited the decrease of the unemployment rate. -
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Japanese Internment (Social)
Japanese were exiled into camps away from people because the US government believed there were spies and traitors among them. It was a precation for the security of our nation. -
Rationing (Economic)
Consumers goods weren't being produced as much as before, military goods were now being mass produced so the prices on regular goods was frozen and families were given a war rationing book, and tokens were issued to each amily dictating how much of each product they could buy. This helped controlling the amount of goods being sold and helped keep the economy balanced. -
Woman Army Corp (Social)
Woman joined the military work force on a much larger scale than before. It provides opportunity for females to engage in external affairs other than in the home. -
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The Battle of Midway (Military)
The battle of midway destroyed Japans naval strenght, when america destroyed for of the japanese aircraft carriers. The Japanese navy never recovered after this great attack. It left Japanese playing on a defensive end rather than offense. -
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Guadacanal (Military)
The U.S. fought Japan in Guagacanal until they all fleed and America won the territory. Allies had to retake that land in order to cease Japanese expansion into Australia and other pivotal trading, supply routes. -
Brazil Decleration of War on Germany (Political)
German U-boats attacked Brazils Ships from Febuary to August and since Brazil was pressured by the Allies, they declared war on Germany. Brazil supplied high octane gasoline to Germany and after this occured Gernamy was stripped of that source. -
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Navajo Coed Talkers (Social)
These natives served in the US military, these men used their own language to transmit messages across enemy lines. This allowed the US to comunicate with their army and others without enemies being able to crack their coed. -
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Operation Torch (Military)
The British-American invasion of North America, in which the Allied forces began to push back the nazi army. Invaiding silcy and making their way to mainland Italy, to enter German territory through there. -
Office of War Mobilization (Political)
FDR issued an executive order that made the government much more involved in the war mobilizaton than before, the federal government displayed much more interest in the war than before. This helped the war efforts and increased the size of our army. -
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Operation Husky (Military)
The operation to invade Silcy was the first assult into German occupide territory. It was not expected by the German Army that the Allies would attack from the south, so they were caught unprepared, as was the Italian Army. -
Invasion of Italy (Social)
Was an advancement in the war against Nazi Germany. They broke the allience Italy had with Germany, along with the fact it was the only place they could attack and support the operation. -
D-Day (Political)
It was the invasion of Normandy in territory occupied by Germany. It was the Allied invasion that pched back all the German military. -
GI Bill of Rights (Social)
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was signed into law on June 22, 1944, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It Gave Soldiers who fought in WWII healthcare and other benificiary provisions after the war. -
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Operation Cobra (Military)
It was the coed name for the first offensive attack after D-day landings. The plan was to punch through the weak German defence that was too preoccupied with the British and Canadian activity that they became unbalanced and distracted. Allowing the U.S. Army to win victory over them. -
Operation Dargoon (Military)
The Allied landing occured this day in Southern France, and the troops landed behind enemy lines. It's significance was that the deception of operation overload worked and German troops weren't expecting an amphibious landing there, they were unprepared. -
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Battle of Buldge (Military)
The Battle was a German offensive, they were pushing Allied forces back and taking the territory lost. This battle was suppoused to split the British, and American Allied line in half. -
Yalta Conference (Political)
Took place before WWII, it was a discussion about what would happen to the Europen countries after the war. It was also were they set up the United Nations. -
Harry S. Truman (Political)
Months after Roosevelt died Truman took power, he commanded the war untill the end. His choices and his new outlook and fresh perspective on the war diffred from Roosevelt and it was convinient because his outlook and new ideas are what succesfully ended the war. -
Adolf Hitlers Death (Political)
Adolf Hitler commited suicide and abondoned his country to the mercy of the Allies. As the Red Army, the U.S., and England moved in he knew that he was being pushed back and led to the downfall and surrender of the German government. -
V-E Day (Social)
The Victory of Europe, the unconditional surrender of Germany ratifed in Europe May 8th. This ended the war in the European Theeater and let the US focus on the Pacific theatre. -
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Potsdam Conference (Political)
The "Big Three" met in Potsdam, Germany and disccussed post world war arrangements. They went over what would be asked of Japan nd what would be done with the land, the condition the country was in and the unconditional surrender . -
Atomic Bomb is Dropped (Economic)
Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki took a lot of work, a lot of research and many studies were conducted. Many people contributed into making this atomic bomb. This provided jobs and improved the unemployment rate by creating many jobs. -
V-J Day (Social)
Victory over Japan Day, Japan srrendered to the Allies unconditionally effectively ending World War Two. After the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki they had no choice but to give up. -
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Nuremberg Trial (Poitical)
This was the official trials against Axis leaders suspected of commiting war crimes. It's significance was it depicted who's responcibility and fault it was of what happend.