We are finishing WWII powerpoint 2 part 2 today! yay!
US Homefront:
- It is what people are doing at home to help with the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- First peacetime draft in the US
- After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riveter
- Represented women workers in WWII
- Nursing was popular
- Farm workers, typist, waitresses, time keepers, messengers, teachers, bus/taxi drivers, factory workers.
- They did other jobs but did not actually fight in war,
- WAC=Womens army corps
- WAVES=Womens navy
- WASP=Womes army service pilots- transported planes from place to place.
- Tokyo Rose...
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Worked in factories
- Guys fought
- Alot of bombing
- fighting on frontlines
- they were being discriminated against
- Tuskegee Institute- Pilots that were trained to bomb.
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Basically the same kinda stuff as African Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Hollywood made propaganda for war
- Entertained troops
- Made advertisements for war
- The purple heart is an example
- Cary Grant was an actor
- Casablanca is a movie they made for WWII back in the day.
- John Wayne. STUDDD!!!!! love him!
- Kilroy was here
6. Office of Price Administration
- Set up in 1941 to set up rations and pricing items.
- 8000 rationing boards were created to volunteer.
- food rationing included restrictions on sugar, meat; clothing, restricted silk and nylon
- Gasoline rations began May 1942 limiting to 4 gallons of gas per week.
- There were stickers for gas things
- T sticker=truckers for unlimited amounts
- C sticker-doctors for important jobs
- B sticker=for others.
- Black market developed in stolen or fake stickers that were used in 30% gas sales..
- by 1945 32,500 motorists were arrested for using these stickers and 4000 gas stations were closed for taking part in this.
- People had to stand in lines for sugar because they were allowed only limited amounts
- Horse meat was not rationed.
7. War Production Board
- They made alot of stuff as quickly as they could
8. National War Labor Board
- Wanted everyone to work together.
- It was trying to get people to stop going on strike
- workers, owners, ect working together to get jobs done.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- faster ships and being able to flow through them faster
- intercept German code
- Travel in numbers
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Spying
- intercepting codes
- Radar and detecting things above the surface
- HF/DF used to locate the sources of the enemy radio transmissions such as submarines (#10)
- ULTRA and MAGIC were like code names for Very intelligent.
- They would begin sharing code-breaking secrets using ultra and magic
- Enigma was what germans used to send out their information
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Lebensraum
- Wanted Ukraine for the Farmland
- They could use their people as slave labor
- the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
- Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains
- The western front fighting was fighting over
- June 22 1941 Barborossa
- The main front expanded 149 miles to a depth over 600 miles
- In the soviet union marched the best of German Army amounting to three quarters of its field
- Germans occupied some 900000 square miles in the Soviet Territory by the end of war
- Battle of Moscow- October 1941-January 1942
- Germany invaded!
- 280,000-400,000 German casualties
- 650,000-1,280,000 Soviet casualties
- Hitler believed Moscow was the Major military and political target in the USSR as it would lead to rhe collapse of the country
- Germany got within 12 miles of Moscow before Soviets stopped the advance
- Marked a MAJOR turning point in the Eastern front
- Hitler took control and made all military decisions afterwards
- This led many German officers against Hitler
- Hitler surrounded himself with staff officers with little or no combat experience.
- The Siege(surrounding the city/bombarting) of Leningrad
- Started in September 8, 1941 when the last land connection to the city was cut off by Germany
- The actual seige took place on January 27, 1944 and last 872 days!
- These places inside the city that was surrounded the people would starve to death
- because of starving people people would eat rats, bird, pets and other humans
- hungry gangs came into play and people would attack defensless people and eat them..
- Leningrad police even formed a special unit to combat canibalism. YUCK!
- Red Army
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Erwin Rommel-The Desert Fox (Africa)
- he was the best German General of the war.
- He plotted a death for Hitler and was put to death himself
- Operation Torch-Code name for our invasion of French North Africa (moracko)
- Started in Nov. 8, 1942
- by mid 1943 we defeated Germans, italians, and the Vichy France! WE ARE AWESOME!
- Cassablanca Conference-January 1942
14. US Generals-
Marshall, Chief of staff of the US military during WWII
Eisenhower, Head guy of D-Day
Patton, One of the Best Generals in US
MacArthur,
Nimitz,
Bradley
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- June 6, 1944
- We invaded france because German had control.
- Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France
- Conducted in 2 phases
- an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and free french airborne troops
- an amphibious landing of allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting at 6:30am.
- Decoy operations to distract the German Forces from the real landing areas
- The operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world historywith over 160,000 troops
- Roughly 10,000 Allied casualties (6,600 US.) dead missing captured!
- The Atlantic Wall- an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of Europe
- Normandy Invasion- June 6, 1944 starting point of D-Day
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Coldest snowiest winter on record
- over a million men fought in this battle
- 800 tanks lost on both sides, 1,000 german aircraft was lost
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
29. Why did allied powers win WWII?
- Henry Kaiser was a ship builder helping to improve the war and army ect.
**Battle of Atlantic
- Build faster more efficiant ships
- To make water traffic more flowy
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