World War II 1939 (41) - 1945

Question 1

The Home Front

Answer 1

• Changed the life for almost every American citizen.
• Rosie the Riveter-fictional character to convince women that working was not masculine.
• Japanese Internment Camp-Japanese Americana on the West Coast we’re brought to camps out of fear that they were spies. Lost homes and businesses and the only way out was by joining the army.
• Rationing, Wheatless Wednesdays, Meatless Friday’s, conserving goods, victory gardens, war bonds, car pools, tin drives, rubber drives, scrap drives, paper drives.

Question 2

D-Day

Answer 2

• Turning point of WWII.
• Beginning of the end of the war.
• Amphibious landing on the beaches of Normandy, France by the Allies.
• Germany is forced to fight a two-front war.
• June 6, 1944, war is over by April 1945 as soviets and British and Americans meet in Berlin and Hitler commits suicide.
• After the landing it was a straight March to Germany, which had dominated Europe before D-Day landing.

Question 3

Atomic Bomb

Answer 3

• Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 8th 1945, by Harry Truman and led to the end of the war in Japan and the surrender of the Emperor.
• US actually bluffed that they had one more that they would drop on Tokyo, if Japan did not surrender.
• Truman had several alternatives but he chose dropping them to end the war quickly and save American lives.
• Invasion of Japan.
• Military Display of Bomb.
• Give more warning.