HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 24 Outline of Last Lecture I Pack a Court II New Deal III WWII Outline of Current Lecture II WWII III Racial Clashes IV Military Conflict Current Lecture WWII unemployment ends 16 million men go to war the women step in to fill the men s job positions Women s Army Corps Oveta Hobby 4 of women worked before men went to war their main job was to be a housewife at the end of war 50 women remained working Idiology a conspiracy of FDR knowing about the attack on Pearl Harbor in order for Americans to have a reason to go to war Racial Clashes the U S army had to be brought into Detroit to control the people from violence Zoot Suit a suit that was usually too big for a person extra clothing it was a unpatriotic way of supporting the war because there was a shortage of fabric to make uniforms for the soldiers so citizens would over dress to symbolize they were against going to war Internment camps were set up for the American Japanese 112 000 went to camps and two thirds were American born and one third were immigrants 18 000 were released to go to war to support the U S the Japanese earned more metals because they were put on the frontline Military Conflict first 6 months of the war were horrible These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute one third of the land was controlled by the Japanese Europe except Britain were controlled by Hitler U S made the war in Europe a priority so Great Britain doesn t fall Stalingrad major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad It was a turning point in the European theatre of World War II the German forces never regained the initiative in the East and withdrew a vast military force from the West to reinforce their losses D Day June 6 1944 the day of the Normandy landings initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II Nuremberg Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice trials were a series of 13 trials carried out between 1945 and 1949 The defendants who included Nazi Party officials and high ranking military officers along with German industrialists lawyers and doctors were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide and was never brought to trial
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