Chapter 8 Social Studies
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- WWII effect on women
- held many jobs: pilots, factory workers, and mechanics
- Manhatten Project
- effort of United States to build atomic bommb
- Normady France
- largest sea invasion in the world
- Holocaust
- six million Jews were murdered
- First African American fighter pilots
- trained in Tuskegee Alabama
- effect of WWII on the economy
- was good because factories had to expand to produce military equipment
- Japan surrended
- after the atomic bomb was used
- rise of dictators
- became a concerrn because they planned to attack and conquer other countries
- Battle of Midway
- Japanese Navy became too weak to continue capturing island in Pacific
- Concentration camps
- places where Jews and others were imprisioned and murdered
- axis powers
- Germany, Italy, and Japan
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Germans retreated from the Soviet Union
- Bombing of Pearl Harbour
- event that caused the US to enter World War II
- Great Britian and France
- declared war on Germany because they invaded Poland
- executive order 9066
- ordered by President FDR - internment of Japanese Americans