selsctive training and service act 1940
first peace time draft in usa history
used until 1973 to fill military needs
after 1973 us military depended on volunteers to fill needs
gerorge c marshall cheif of tstaff of the is military druin
u boats how speed out ran them and how we got around them we used radio
the convoey system stravled with larger groups power and numbers ultra we had there play book they didnt have ours
US Homefront:
henry kaiser owned the company to make ships indutriluste help us win the war other ppl couldnt keep up
2. Women's role in WWII
rosie the riveter
represeanted women workers in WWII poster child said u can still look good but role up ur sleaves and work in the factories alot of women became nusres druing WWII women were the providers for america and they had to do alot of sacrfice
3. African-American's role in WWII
males worked in the factories and they were in WWII but segregated
4. Asian's role in WWII
tokyo rise iva toguri was an american citizen in japana nd she played songs on the radio tryin to get ppl hiome sick many were in the war and worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
it really wasnt around they made WWII movies druing this time kilroy was here lol that is funny lol they made alot of moive that were proajanda
6. Office of Price Administration
establish 1941 it was to deal with price control and rationing of goods big organsation u had stickers that said how much gas u would get if u were a u only got 4 gallons of gas a week and then there was if u had a c u got more and b u got five if u had a t u got as much as u need cuz u were delivering goods a black market was made to sell stickers and gas alot of ppl were arrested and gasstaions closed
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
becaouse they made enough produictuion in war goods more and faster than any other countrhy
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
u boats how speed out ran them and how we got around them we used radio
the convoey system stravled with larger groups power and numbers
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
radar that we ahd and gb we had there play book so we knew what they were doing
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
enigma machine how they sent out codes british and americans could decoded it and say what it says
bombe it was a super computer back in the day
why dud hitler invade the soviet union
lebensraum
despised the ethnic slavs ruled by their jewish bolshevik masters
wanted ukrain for farm land
could used the ppl ask slave albvor
the defeat of ussr would furhter isolate the allies
wanted the oilfields in causcaus mountians
didnt trust salin proagande showed that stalin was planning to attack germany
ther western front fighting was over sepct bombing gb
furious that his army had been unable to take moscow hitler dismissed his comander in cheif in december 1941 and took perospnal charge of the wehmacht german army
hitler took contoril and amde all the decisions
this led many exprinced german officers to go against him surrouned him self with un experianced officers
seigie of leningrad
i started sepetmeber 8 1941 when the last coneteion was cut off
lifitinf of the sege took place on jan 27 1944 8 72 days
it was longest destructive seige ever
reports of cannnibalisim appereaed in winter of 1941 1942
hungery gangs went and attacked help less ppl
police foriced to combat cannibalism
it finaly failed
the germans never took it
red army 1017881 killed or missing
2418185 wounded or sick
642000 before sige 400000 after
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
we are fighitng italy germany and afica i think
bernard montgomery monty he was the british general
gerorge patton
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
patton was from america and he was rude to his troops if u could movve u could fight
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
june 6 1944 was the day france was invaded
was spoused to be a day earlyier and the ppl were sick and scared so it was just bad it was spoused to be a good attack but it didint utah and omaha beach americca attacked gorder was attack by birtin
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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