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| coupon book so you could buy things |
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| easy way to help on the homefront |
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| groups of ships that offered saftey in numbers. and they protect cargo |
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| Japaneese internment camps |
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| camps that people go to live so japaneese can keep an eye on them. (1/16th native american) |
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| us started building more ships and planes, better equipped convoys w/ammo, guns, radar, sonar. the US broke the german code system(location of u-boats) |
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| US code. nobody could break it becaue it was never wrote down. |
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| they had to go through the Suez canal to get oil. |
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| important because whoever is in control of the canal controls the oil |
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| "the desert fox" good german general that led the African Korps |
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| key battle in Egypt "turning point in war" the loss severly weakened Axis Powers |
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| good general, suprem allied commander, he came up with a stradegy |
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| hitler oreded a seige, lasted from 1941-42, soviet civillians were dying at a rate of 3 to 4,000 a day, around 1mil died by the end of it |
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| happened on the vulgar river. stalingrad was an industrial city. hitler bombed the city, but russian soldiers broke through german defences, 90,000 half-dead german soldier were captured, soviets lost 1mil soldiers. "turning point in Europe" |
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