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The code name for the effort to develop atomic bombs for the United States during World War II was named the Manhattan Project.
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Services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress in 1941. Cash and carry was a policy requested by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939
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Responding to Japanese occupation of key airfields in Indochina following an agreement between Japan and Vichy France, the U.S. froze Japanese assets on July 26, 1941, and on August 1 established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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The government found it necessary to ration food, gas, and even clothing during that time. Military production also began during World War II includes the arms, ammunitions, personnel and financing which were mobilized for the war.
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There were 2 atomic bombs during the war. Hiroshima and Nagasaki where both devastating and caused many deaths.
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Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women.
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African Americans served bravely and with distinction in every theater of World. War II, while simultaneously struggling for their own civil rights from “the world's greatest democracy.
