Introduction Sources of American Strength Industrial production Ideology The "Grand Alliance" Opening Gambits Strategy in Europe Anglo-American debate over strategy Operation Torch the Darlan affair German surrender in North Africa Demands in the Pacific Japanese advances in the Pacific The tide turns Battle of the Coral Sea Doolittle raid Battle of Midway The battle of Guadalcanal Mobilization and the Economy Production for War War Production Board orchestrates conversion Obtaining raw materials for war goods curtailing civilian production conservation substitution Production miracles Controlling Prices Factors pushing prices up soaring federal spending wartime paychecks Paying for the war income taxes war bonds and other loans Office of Price Administration freezes prices extends rationing Controlling wage rates National War Labor Board Little Steel formula Office of War Mobilization Economic Boom Measures of the boom Labor overtime pay union membership soars fringe benefits wildcat strikes Farmers soaring demand for farm goods victory gardens government price supports increased production agricultural income climbs Regional Changes The South benefits military bases defense manufacturing contracts Wartime migration from farms and small towns to cities from region to region California The Enlistment of Science The Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Radar Advantages of microwave radar Alters Allies’ offensive strategy A Physicists’War Proximity fuses Rockets Physicists’ new status The Medical War Penicillin Fighting malaria synthetic quinine (Atabrine) DDT Blood freeze-dried plasma and albumin methods to preserve whole blood The War in Europe Early 1943 The Casablanca conference Anglo-American invasion of Sicily Tide turns on the eastern front Into Italy Political changes Mussolini resigns Badoglio regime surrenders Allied invasion of Italy Bombing Europe British and Americans bomb Germany British strategy American strategy Hitler bombs London V-1 rockets V-2 rockets United States turns to terror bombing The Invasion of France Teheran Conference The invasion of Normandy Allied sweep across France Combat conditions The War in the Pacific Two-Pronged American Strategy The Navy’s Advance Tarawa and Makin Eniwetok and Kwajalein Saipan, Tinian, and Guam MacArthur’s Drive Landing in the Philippines Kamikaze attacks Frustration in China Supplying the Chinese by air Frustration with Jiang and the Nationalist Chinese The War and American Society War Aims and National Morale Office of War Information linking the war to postwar prosperity Why We Fight series Hollywood’s response to war Blurring of ethnic, religious, racial, and gender divisions Women Women in the workforce Women in the military Battling stereotypes and discrimination Pressures to return to the home African Americans Wartime migration north and west Discrimination and segregation race riots of 1943 the military The battle for equality invoking American ideals the FEPC NAACP and union membership soars white sympathizers and interracial organizations the northern black vote Reform in the military Changing attitudes of whites Native Americans and Mexican Americans Native Americans Seminoles and Hopis resist draft Navajo Code Talkers Mexican Americans the bracero program migration to war industries in Los Angeles the "Sleepy Lagoon" trial the Zoot Suit riots volunteering for military service changing attitudes of whites Politics and the Limits of Freedom Japanese American Relocation The internment program reasons scope Japanese American reactions Japanese Americans in the military Experience of other Asians The United States and the Holocaust Nazis launch the "final solution" Rescue movement faces obstacles anti-Semitism skepticism The War Refugee Board successes limits of the American response A Shifting Political Agenda Government policies aid largest corporations most Americans grow more conservative Congress begins dismantling the New Deal The G.I. Bill of Rights The 1944 Election Nominations Republicans nominate Dewey Democrats swap Wallace for Truman The campaign FDR’s victory Victory in Europe Battle of the Bulge The German attack Eisenhower’s strategy The Defeat of Germany Americans and Russians meet at the Elbe Liberating the concentration camps Hitler’s suicide and Germany’s surrender