US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-first peacetime draft in US History
-we had the lend-lease act, and all the WW2 acts
-Wilson was preparing us for war
-your name is pulled out of a hat or whatever and you get drafted
-after 1973 we depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
-Roosie the Rivitor
-to show women we can help win the war
-women made goods and weapons and amo and ect.
-they "awoke a sleeping giant"
-women worked in factories, nurses, secretiarys-types letters for military and gov., farmers, sales people, bus and taxi drivers, elevator operators, teachers, conductors, everything men did, worked on maps, can foods
-every branch of the military had a womens place (W.A.C) womens army corp
-womens navy (WAVES)- typest, cartophigraphers, ect.
-Womens air force (WASP) womens army service pilots
-tokyo rose- iva toguri, taunted guys to make them home sick
3. African-American's role in WWII
-fought in military, there were segregrated units in the military, worked as cargo handlers and cooks but supervised by whites
-black women worked in factories
-more black men volenteered to go to war then white men but were turned down due to skin color
-Double V Victory, won the war but desegregration back home
-tuskegee airmen
4. Asian's role in WWII
-drafted into military as normal citizens but had to war buttons to identify race
-had to deal with discrimintaion and hatred, seen as emenies
-if didnt go to war they had to work in factories and ect.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-they provided commericals and cartoons that would make money and support troops, they made movies (wake island, purple heart, ect) and ect, that tryed to get people to join the war (bob hope and other famous actors)
-amied people to buy war bombs and enterain the troops
-USO united serive organiznation- entertain the soldier over seas and here in the US, non profit org. (bing crosby, judy garland, frank sinstora, the rockettes, john wayne, ect)
6. Office of Price Administration (O.P.A)
-1st to discover ration books and one was given to each family, this way they could pay for what they needed and nothing more, gas, food, clothes, ect.
-once stamps were gone they coudlnt buy more for the week, even if you could buy more with your own money you couldn't , use your own stamps, parents were in charge of their kids book, making sure yours is used by you only.
7. War Production Board
-organization digsined to mass production
8. National War Labor Board
-Can't have workers go on strike.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-Mass production of goods. Dont go on strike, Dont talk to poeple, Dont buy things from the black market.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-Planes would drop bombs on them. Navy used dept charges
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-Spt stuff. A spy would gather emenmy info. like take photos etc. White Rabbit- British Spy.
-ultra/magic - Speed to out run U-boats.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Code name for Germanys invasion of Soviet Union. Moscow, Leingrad. Stalingrad.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-after the battle in africa, the invaded sisalilly,
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
-Marshall, he was cheif of staff, mostly focused on training, he was a fighterrr, was a teacherrr,
-Eisenhower, surprine allied forces commmand, was in charge of D-day,
MacArthur- was the leader of the US army of the leader against Japan
Nimitz- Leader of the US navy of Japan
Bradley- not as famous, Gereral in WWII, Patten- was a gereral in Africa
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-June 6th, 1944. Invasion of France, 3 million men, was the largest unvasion in world history with over 160,000 troops. 6,000 ships, 5,000 planes.
16. Battle of the Bulge
-faught 5 months after D-day, in Belgim, in Dec 19 1944, 19,000 troops died.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-bad health, smoker, heart disease, stroke, died april 2nd, truman took over
18. VE Day
-victory in europe day, deveated Nazi's May 8th 1945,
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
-lime of islands, japan couldnt have air control, too cut off supples for Japan,
Coral Sea- Japans attacked planes and US ships, we sank one of their ships, May 8th 1942.
Battle of Midway- Japs put up a powerful task force, US used magic, Japan couldnt compete with our factorys so we won!
Guadalcanal- started August 7th 1942, the main focus was trying to get control of Enderson air field.
Iwo Jima- three air bases on that island, they tried to take it over so Japanese couldnt go there and get fuel to go farther, Feb, 19th 1945, 6,821 deaths
Okinawa- April 1st 1945, June 21st 1945. Biggest war in the pasfic islands, the planes started doing a suside mission,
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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