US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
2. Women's role in WWII
3. African-American's role in WWII
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
6. Office of Price Administration
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. How the Homefront helped win the war
-worked hard
-made amunition and weapons
-covered the mens jobs.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-We built faster ships and attacked above the water
-HF/DF - like radar. we could now know where the ships were.
-air planes.
-convoy systems (surround yourself in fighter ships.)
-Ultra/Magic
-Explosive barrles. (depth charge attacks.)
-hunter/killer airplanes
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-Ultra was the British Code name used for intercepting for German codes.
-they copied Germans machines
-Germany sent out stuff in codes
-Britain Chryptanalis was intercepting and dechiphering
-Magic was a Chryptanalis code that the Allies had.
-Magic was US and Japan
-Ultra was German and Britain
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Germany invaded the Soviet Union using Blitz Kreig attack
-he wented land for lebensraum(reuniting German speaking people)
-wanted Ukrain for the farmland
-felt the Russians were stupid. he didn't like the communism or whatev
-could use people as slave labor
-wanted oil fiends and caucus mts.
-didn't trust Stalin - propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany
-took over Stalingrad, Lenongrad, Moscow
-moscow was the capitol
-German Wehrmacht (Army) split into 3 groups to get the 3 cities.
-Siege-surounding and bombarding
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
AFRICA:
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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