US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum: Difference between revisions

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+- U.S. preparation for war, including
+> Selective Training & Service Act, 1940: 1st peacetime military draft
+> Hollywood propaganda movies
+> Lend-Lease Act, 1941: authorized “loans” of military equipment to Britain
+> Atlantic-Charter Conference: Pres Roosevelt and British PM Churchill met to declare mutual agreement and goals for defeating Nazis
+- Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941: Japanese attack on US Naval base in Hawaii led to U.S. Declaration of War against Japan and Germany
+- Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942
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+WWII	Home Front
+- total mobilization for war
+- civilian efforts to support military via rationing, “victory gardens” buying US gov bonds to finance the war
+- women and minorities apart of mobilization
+- Manhattan project: race to build the atomic bomb
+	European Theater: v. Germany, starting in N. Africa, working up through Italy, then Normandy Invasion of France
+> Germany surrendered June 1945 after US closed in on West and Russians from the East
+Asian Theater v. Japan, starting w/ Pearl Harbor, loss of Philippines, then working up towards Japanese mainland via “island hopping”
+- Atomic Bomb, Aug, 1945 ended the war
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