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Title: The United States in World War II

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The United States in World War II

CPUSH Chapter 25

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Americans joined the war effort

5 million volunteers
10 million Additional draftees
WAACS
WAVES
Recruiting of
Minorities
Japanese
Immigrants

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Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
(WAVES)
Womens Army Air Corps Pilots
Join the Womens Army Corps (WACs)
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Fords Willow Run Factory
Ford made one B-24 bomber every hour
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Henry Kaisers West Coast Shipyards
The Allies won the Battle of the Atlantic, in
part, because the USA produced ships faster than
German u-boats could sink them
Kaiser standardized battleship building reduced
the time it took to make a battleship from 355
days to 14 days
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Labors contribution

By 1944 18 million laborers worked to support the
war
6 million of those were women
2 million minority workers
A. Phillip Randolph Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters
Threatened a march on Washington if African
American workers didnt get to participate fully
in war work called off the march when Roosevelt
gave in

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Mobilization of Scientists

Office of Scientific Research Development
Anti-lice pesticides
Penicillan
Atomic bomb
Manhattan Project

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Federal Government Takes Control

OPA (Office of Price Administration)
Fought inflation by freezing prices
Set up rationing
Congress raised income tax rates
WPB (War Production Board)
Converted companies to wartime production
Organized national drives for tin, rubber, paper,
etc.

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War Rations
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Battle of the Atlantic

Submarine attacks on shipping
Wolf Packs
January April 87 American ships lost
Convoy
By 1943 140 ships being produced per month
Shipping was much safer by 1943

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Battle of Stalingrad

August 1942-January 1943
1,100,000 Russians died
800,000 Germans and others died
6000 returned
Turning point in the European front

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North Africa

Operation Torch

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Italian Campaign
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Segregated Units

99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee airmen)
Mexican Americans (141st regiment)
Japanese Americans (100th batallion)

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D-Day

https//www.youtube.com/watch?vpCLJhxfj608

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The War in the Pacific theater
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Bataan Death March

BATAAN DEATH MARCHThe Bataan Death March began
on April 10, 1942, when the Japanese assembled
about 78,000 prisoners (12,000 U.S. and 66,000
Filipino). They began marching up the east coast
of Bataan. Although they didn't know it, their
destination was Camp O'Donnell, north of the
peninsula. The men, already desperately
weakened by hunger and disease, suffered
unspeakably during the March. Regardless of their
condition, POWs who could not continue or keep up
with the pace were summarily executed. Even
stopping to relieve oneself could bring death, so
many chose to continue walking while relieving
themselves. Some of the guards made a sport of
hurting or killing the POWs. The Marchers were
beaten with rifle butts, shot or bayoneted
without reason. Most of the POWs got rid of their
helmets because some by Japanese soldiers on
passing trucks hit them with rifle butts. Some
enemy soldiers savagely toyed with POWs by
dragging them behind trucks with a rope around
the neck. Japanese guards also gave the POWs the
"sun treatment" by making them sit in the
sweltering heat of the direct sun for hours at a
time without shade. The Death Marchers received
almost no water or food, further weakening their
fragile bodies. Most POWs only received a total
of a few cups of rice, and little or no water.
Sympathetic Filipinos alongside the road tried to
give POWs food and water, but if a guard saw it,
the POW and the Filipino helper could be beaten
or killed. Some POWs had the water in their
canteens poured out onto the road or taken by the
Japanese just to be cruel. Although thirst began
to drive some of the men mad, if a POW broke
ranks to drink stagnant, muddy water at the side
of the road, he would be bayoneted or shot.
Groups of POWs were often deliberately stopped in
front of the many artesian wells. These wells
poured out clean water, but the POWs were not
allowed to drink it. Some were killed just
because they asked for water. The POWs marched
roughly 65 miles over the course of about six
days until they reached San Fernando. There,
groups as large as 115 men were forced into
boxcars designed to hold only 30-40 men. Boxcars
were so full that the POWs could not sit down.
This caused more to die of heat exhaustion and
suffocation in the cars on the ride from San
Fernando to Capas. The POWs then walked seven
more miles to Camp O'Donnell. At the entrance to
the camp, the POWs were told to lay out the few
possessions they still had any POW found with
any Japanese-made items or money was executed on
the spot.