Bell Work Where were Atomic bombs dropped on

Japan? Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Objective : Cover life on the home front during WWII

Soviet Union– over a million people died at Leningrad due to food shortages

Soviets produced 78,000 tanks and 98,000 Artillery pieces

Soviet women were important part of war effort

Soviets suffered the most during WWII

America– Was an arsenal for democracy U.S. produced much of the equipment

needed to defeat the Axis powers U.S. build six ships a day and 96,000

planes a year African-Americans served during war Japanese- Americans were moved to

internment camps

Germany tried to keep civilian support by not cutting consumer goods

Eventually it was cut to make more arms and munitions

Women were kept out of job market at first but was later encouraged to work

Japan– was highly mobilized, citizens were encouraged to sacrifice for the national cause

Young men volunteered to be Kamikaze pilots

Women were kept at home and instead Japan used Korean and Chinese slave labor

Germans first bomb London during Battle of Britain

Allies used incendiary bombs on Germany. In Dresden bombs created firestorms that killed hundreds of thousands

¼ of Japanese buildings had been destroyed by bombing

After WWII the Cold War started Big Three meet in Yalta to divide up

Germany and the rest of Europe Created the United Nations to maintain

international peace Stalin and Roosevelt discuss holding

free elections in Eastern Europe

Allies agree to hold trials for leaders who committed crimes against humanity

These were called the Nuremburg Trials Distrust grows between the U.S. and Soviet

Union Stalin refuses to hold free elections in Eastern

Europe Churchill calls Stalin's control of East Europe an

Iron Curtain that has descended across the continent

Yalta Conference