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The US Enters the War

• Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

• Roosevelt called it a “Day that will live in infamy”

Preparing for War

• 16 million Americans joined the military• Conscientious objectors – believed war was

wrong and served in the medical corps• Women joined the military

• “Rosie the Riveter” was used to encourage to join the work force

Internment Camps

• Forced relocation for Japanese Americans• They were stripped of their rights as American

citizens• There were 2 of them in Arkansas

• Japanese were allowed to enlist in military service in 1943.

• Helped crack the secret Japanese telegraph code

War Materials

• Retooled factories to produce war goods– Built a ship every 3 ½ days– Auto factories built jeeps and tanks

• Food that would help the war effort was rationed (restricted in use).– Gasoline, oil, meat, butter, sugar, coffee, shoes and

most canned or frozen goods

EUROPEAN THEATER

• First priority was to defeat Hitler• Russia joined the Allies and Stalin promised to

help get rid of the Japanese once the Germans had been defeated

1. Operation Torch

• Dwight D Eisenhower led the Americans• Invasion of North Africa• The British invaded at the same time• They crushed the Axis forces between them

2. Operation Husky

• Led by General George Patton• Invaded Sicily (island close to Italy)• Italians were tired of fighting and overthrew

Mussolini• Surrendered to the Allies and declared war on

Germany

3. D-Day

• In Normandy, France on June 6, 1944• Allied forces established a beachhead in

France• After 3 months, liberated Paris

4. Battle of the Bulge

• Final German attack in Belgium

Yalta Conference

• Between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt.• Russia agreed to enter the Pacific war and

hold elections after the war

V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

• Hitler is losing and commits suicide• May 7, 1945 the Germans surrendered