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1. Sources of American Strength
   1. Industrial production
   2. Ideology
2. The "Grand Alliance"

1. Strategy in Europe
   1. Anglo-American debate over strategy
   2. Operation Torch
      1. the Darlan affair
      2. German surrender in North Africa
2. Demands in the Pacific
   1. Japanese advances in the Pacific
   2. The tide turns
      1. Battle of the Coral Sea
      2. Doolittle raid
      3. Battle of Midway
   3. The battle of Guadalcanal

1. Production for War
   1. War Production Board orchestrates conversion
   2. Obtaining raw materials for war goods
      1. curtailing civilian production
      2. conservation
      3. substitution
   3. Production miracles
2. Controlling Prices
   1. Factors pushing prices up
      1. soaring federal spending
      2. wartime paychecks
   2. Paying for the war
      1. income taxes
      2. war bonds and other loans
   3. Office of Price Administration
      1. freezes prices
      2. extends rationing
   4. Controlling wage rates
      1. National War Labor Board
      2. Little Steel formula
   5. Office of War Mobilization
3. Economic Boom
   1. Measures of the boom
   2. Labor
      1. overtime pay
      2. union membership soars
      3. fringe benefits
      4. wildcat strikes
   3. Farmers
      1. soaring demand for farm goods
      2. victory gardens
      3. government price supports
      4. increased production
      5. agricultural income climbs
4. Regional Changes
   1. The South benefits
      1. military bases
      2. defense manufacturing contracts
   2. Wartime migration
      1. from farms and small towns to cities
      2. from region to region
   3. California

1. The Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
2. Radar
   1. Advantages of microwave radar
   2. Alters Allies’ offensive strategy
3. A Physicists’War
   1. Proximity fuses
   2. Rockets
   3. Physicists’ new status
4. The Medical War
   1. Penicillin
   2. Fighting malaria
      1. synthetic quinine (Atabrine)
      2. DDT
   3. Blood
      1. freeze-dried plasma and albumin
      2. methods to preserve whole blood

1. Early 1943
   1. The Casablanca conference
   2. Anglo-American invasion of Sicily
   3. Tide turns on the eastern front
2. Into Italy
   1. Political changes
      1. Mussolini resigns
      2. Badoglio regime surrenders
   2. Allied invasion of Italy
3. Bombing Europe
   1. British and Americans bomb Germany
      1. British strategy
      2. American strategy
   2. Hitler bombs London
      1. V-1 rockets
      2. V-2 rockets
   3. United States turns to terror bombing
4. The Invasion of France
   1. Teheran Conference
   2. The invasion of Normandy
   3. Allied sweep across France
   4. Combat conditions

1. Two-Pronged American Strategy
2. The Navy’s Advance
   1. Tarawa and Makin
   2. Eniwetok and Kwajalein
   3. Saipan, Tinian, and Guam
3. MacArthur’s Drive
   1. Landing in the Philippines
   2. Kamikaze attacks
4. Frustration in China
   1. Supplying the Chinese by air
   2. Frustration with Jiang and the Nationalist Chinese

1. War Aims and National Morale
   1. Office of War Information
      1. linking the war to postwar prosperity
      2. Why We Fight series
   2. Hollywood’s response to war
   3. Blurring of ethnic, religious, racial, and gender divisions
2. Women
   1. Women in the workforce
   2. Women in the military
   3. Battling stereotypes and discrimination
   4. Pressures to return to the home
3. African Americans
   1. Wartime migration north and west
   2. Discrimination and segregation
      1. race riots of 1943
      2. the military
   3. The battle for equality
      1. invoking American ideals
      2. the FEPC
      3. NAACP and union membership soars
      4. white sympathizers and interracial organizations
      5. the northern black vote
   4. Reform in the military
   5. Changing attitudes of whites
4. Native Americans and Mexican Americans
   1. Native Americans
      1. Seminoles and Hopis resist draft
      2. Navajo Code Talkers
   2. Mexican Americans
      1. the bracero program
      2. migration to war industries in Los Angeles
      3. the "Sleepy Lagoon" trial
      4. the Zoot Suit riots
      5. volunteering for military service
      6. changing attitudes of whites

1. Japanese American Relocation
   1. The internment program
      1. reasons
      2. scope
      3. Japanese American reactions
   2. Japanese Americans in the military
   3. Experience of other Asians
2. The United States and the Holocaust
   1. Nazis launch the "final solution"
   2. Rescue movement faces obstacles
      1. anti-Semitism
      2. skepticism
   3. The War Refugee Board
      1. successes
      2. limits of the American response
3. A Shifting Political Agenda
   1. Government policies aid largest corporations most
   2. Americans grow more conservative
   3. Congress begins dismantling the New Deal
   4. The G.I. Bill of Rights
4. The 1944 Election
   1. Nominations
      1. Republicans nominate Dewey
      2. Democrats swap Wallace for Truman
   2. The campaign
   3. FDR’s victory

1. Battle of the Bulge
   1. The German attack
   2. Eisenhower’s strategy
2. The Defeat of Germany
   1. Americans and Russians meet at the Elbe
   2. Liberating the concentration camps
   3. Hitler’s suicide and Germany’s surrender