US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
2. Women's role in WWII
3. African-American's role in WWII
-faced with racism so they fought even harder
-there were segregated forces
-Tuscugee Airman - black airforce and went on 200 missions and didn't lose 1 man
-Battle of the Bulge -
-African-Americans were thought to fight harder then whites to prove themselves
-did labor tasks
4. Asian's role in WWII
2 Famous groups:
Regimal
100th Italian - regulated supply routes
-put into camps after Pearl Harbor
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:
OPERATION TORCH-the brithish-american invasion of French North Africa started on Novermber 8, 1942
-by mid 1943 we had defeated the Germans, Italians, and the Vichy France.
-Hitler wanted to invade France
-Americans wanted to fight down in Africa first though.
-wanted Europe to open a second front
-we fight Desert Fox (always seemed to out-wit us) commited suicide
-Gernard Montgomery(Monty - (allie) Britain)
-General George Patton
Italy:
-invated Sicily
-main force did OPERATION AVALANCH
-Mtns - want to be higher if you are fighting in mountains.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall: chief of staff of the US Military during WW11
-only guy above him was the president.
Eisenhower: nickname: IKE
-very powerful military
-was president of the US for 8 years
-major Gerneral during D-Day and battle of the bulge
-Patton: he was a major US General
-fought in Africa and Europe
-died in automobile accident
MacArthur:US general against Japan
-Born in Arkansaws
-his dad was Arthur MacArthur
-dad was an army captain
-was in Philippines during WW11 and was determined to take back Philippines
Nimitz:US against Japan
Bradley:worked with Patton in Northern Africa
-involved in Europe after the D-Day invasion
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
JUNE 6, 1944
1) an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British , American, Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight.
2) an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of French starting at 6:30 AM
-also decoy operations to distract the German forces from the real landing areas.
-the operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history with a lot of troops
-Ike, Patton, Bradley were the Generals
-Nazi went across the channel
16. Battle of the Bulge
-known as Battle of the Bulge because it was Hitlers last attempt to break the Allied powers
-it was a dense forest there.
-had 3 part plan. first send tanks,
-Worst battle for the UNITED STATES in ww2
-Huge offensive for Germany
-coldest snowy weather in memory
-over a million men died
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-Truman had to be breifed on the attomic bombing because he didn't know about it
-had to deal with post tramatic war stuff
-fought against racism
18. VE Day
-May 8, 1945
-Victory in Europe day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Island Hopping: Saves time, saves lives, saves money
-Military stratagy agains Japan where we invated strategicaly important island and hopped over less important island.
Philippines:December 7, 1941
-they thought they wer going to give us independence and so then went to American Philippines war.
-Baton(island in the Philippines) death march (went from one POW camp to the next)
-Japs took over the Philippines
-walked 60 miles
-characterized by physical abuse and murder
-officals faced war crimes trials after the war
Coral Sea
-seen to be a US victory since it was a Stalemate
-was on May 4-8 1942
-down by Australia
-first time that Japan didn't win
Midway:
-after Pearl Harbor June '42
-First battle we won
-lasted for 3 days June 4=7
-Midway between Jap and Us but close to Hawaii
-Magic played a vital role in the Allied victory
-Japs navy was hit hard and never recovered from this battle
Guadalcanal:
-victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theatre
-marked the transition by Allies from defensive operations to offensive that resulted in Japan's eventual surrender and the end of WW11
-Japan started using Kamikazies (suicide bombers)
Iwo Jima:
-Where the raising the flag took place
-US vs. Japan (getting closer to japan)
-Feb. 1945
Phillipeanes:
MacArthur's return to the Philippines
Okinawa:
-Always been a Japanese Island
-taking it would help us to invade Japan
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-common people that knew how to talk english
-was only spoken in their specific area
ex. Turtle = tank
-they couldn't break the code
-nobody knew anyting about them till 1968
-in 2001 George W. Bush presented MEdals to four surviving Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
-it was on April 18 1942
-there was an air attack on Japan
-most daring opperation yet
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22. Manhattan Project
-thoughts of Germany using a nuclear bomb started the project
-started in Manhattan
-required some of the best US Scientists, Mathmeticians
-code name for the first development of the Nuclear Bomb
-tested the bomb in Alamagordo, NM
-only a month before we dropped on Japan
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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