1. Selective Training and Service Act
-It forced people 18 and older to join the army
-First peacetime draft in US History
-Used until 1973
-After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women started working and liked it
-Women made bombs and supplies for war
-Women were nurses during the war
-Rosie the RIviter-represented women worker in WWII
3. African-American's role in WWII
-Many volunteered many were drafted
-they were segragated
-at first they weren't allowed to fight in the front line
-many were put in as custodians and cooks
-Many did things at home to help with the war
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Many american born Japanese volunteered to fight
-There wasn't a lot of trust
-They had to wear tags in the war so people would know they were japanese-american soldiers
-there was up to 20,000 chinese that were in the war
-300 Korean- Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Bob Hope and Looney Toons were important to WWII
-Bob Hope would go to the troops and tell jokes and stuff to take the war off of the soldiers minds
-USo is a private non profit group that goes around entertaining troops
6. Office of Price Administration
-Set up by FDR
-Set up how much people could ration
-There was propoganda for it
7. War Production Board
-Established in 1942 by FDR
-purpose to keep up with supplies for WWII
-Made as much as they could
-Went from making Peacetime goods to wartime goods
8. National War Labor Board
-Was to help stop arguments between employers and industries during WWII
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-The women had a role in the war because they made war supplies
-Hollywood helped keep the war positive and get people to do their part like buying war bonds
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-We kept adding U.S ports and they
-We made a lot of ships
-We changes their naval code
-We sunk many of their U-boats
-we built faster ships
-Wolf packs were groups of Submarines that fought together
Allied Intelligence:
-we used radar
-huff duff-used to locate radio transmitions from submarines
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-Codes to make sure people are following
-was called it ultra secret because it waas ultra secret
-magic was it's code name and was ran by the U.S that deciphered Japanese code
-Ultra was used to decipher German code
-Ultra was used by the British
-radioed info to ships so they would stay out of the areas where German U-boats were
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-was the largest military operation in history
-Hitler told nazis to cut off supply lines
-Many died of starvation and froze to death
-The Russian army went through leningrad
-In stalingrad it was known as the turning point
-Hitler got appointed the General
Why did hitler invade the soviet union?
-Lebensraum
-despiesed the ethnic slavs by their jewish bolshevik masters
-wanted ukraine for the farmland
-could use the people as slave labor
-the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
-Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains
-Didin't trust Stalin-German propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany
-The western front fighting was over(except GB)
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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