LECTURE 17: THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II

Lecture Outline

1. Pearl Harbor.
2. American mobilization.
3. The air war.
4. Dropping the atom bomb.

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Lend-Lease
Battle of Midway (1942)
"island-hopping"
Army Air Corps
"Final Solution"
Dauchau
Auschwitz
Romania
Palestine (Israel)
anti-Semitism
Sen. Guy Gillette (D-Iowa)
War Refugee Board (1944)
Hungary
Yalta Conference (1945)
Pres. Harry S. Truman
"nuclear fission"
Manhattan Project (1942)
Hirohito

War Chronology - 1945

May 8 Germany surrenders; Russia to attack Japan no later than Aug. 8
June 18 U.S. invasion of Japan set for Nov. 1
July 16 A-bomb test successful
Aug. 5 Hiroshima A-bombed
Aug. 8 Russia attacks Japan
Aug. 9 Nagasaki A-bombed

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