home front, passed in 1940, peacetime draft, draft just in case, used until 1973, from there volunteers filled in
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter represented women workers during the war, worked in factories, nursing, secretaries, typists, farmer, sales, waitress, bus/taxi driver, messenger, laundry, teacher, conductors, didn’t fight in war, each branch had their own branches, Army- WAC, Navy- WAVES, Air Force- WASP; "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri, on the radio, taunting troops and making them homesick, US citizen in Japan, convicted of treason;
3. African-American's role in WWII
many went to war, worked in factories, bombing and fighting on front lines, discriminated against; Tuskegee Airmen, most famous black group of pilots, bombed, trained by Tuskegee Institute
4. Asian's role in WWII
Internment camps
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Entertained troops, made propaganda movies, sent people overseas to entertain troops, The Purple Heart major movie; Bob Hope comedian/singer/actor, USO tour, got singer actors comedians to go over and entertain troops; John Wayne major actor
6. Office of Price Administration
1941 to set up rations and price control, some rations were restrictions on sugar, meat, silk, and nylon eventually gas, stickers based on what job you have A common American 4 gal, B war workers more gas or C vital jobs more gas, T truckers unlimited gas, black market develops, stealing and counterfeit stickers
7. War Production Board
tried to get everyone to pitch in and make supplies for the war and quickly
8. National War Labor Board
got workers and owners to work together so the workers wouldnt strike hurting the war effort
9. Why the Home front helped win the war
made supplies such as weapons, war gardens, entertainment
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
Battle of the Atlantic was about controling the seas and shipping getting things to GB; faster and more manuverable shios to outrun U boats, US navy operators intercepted German radio transmitions to figure out where boats were located, convoy system power in numbers merchant ships surrounded by other ships, HF/DF detects subs below water, ULTRA
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
US operators interceted German code or messages to find out where they were, Radar used to detect about the surface; Ultra- British, code name for intercepting and deciphering of German code, Magic- US, same except against Japan, we always knew what they were doing; Enigma was machine Germans used to send codes, Bombe was the machine that broke the code; Hunter-Killers ships and airplanes designed to go after U boats, Depth Charges underwater bombs
12. Operation Barbarossa (USSR vs. Germany)
Hitler wanted to attck them so there was more space, farm land, slave labor, oilfields, Slavs lived there and he didnt like them, didnt trust Stalin, western front fighting was over, isolate allied powers; greatest land battle in histroy, early in the morning, main front was huge, many casualties and prisoners, Germans occupied a lot of soviet union, he needed it to go fast, German army split in soviet union, Group Norths goal Leningrad, Group Centres goal Moscow, Group Souths goal Stalingrad, Soviets pushed back in the winter; werent able to take Moscow, Hitler took control and made military orders, German officers didnt like it and tried to kill him; Leningrad siege, surround city and cut off supplies, lasted 872 days, cannabalism, never took Leningrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel "The Desert Fox" German leader of Afrika Corps; Operation Torch was code name for our invasion, first invasion against Germany, invaded Moroco, fighting Germany, Italy, and French Vichy, defeated them in about 6-8 months; Italy came after Africa, Italy surrendered pretty quickly, Germany was in the mountains making it hard to fight, Germany did not surrender there; Casablanca Conference- Casablanca Morocco, unconditional surrender of Germany
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US military during WWII, head of US military, only guy above him was the president
Patton- US general, thought highly of himself, ivory pistol, thought everyone should fight, defeated Rommel
Bradley- US general, DDay
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
invasion of Nazi controlled France, Day of Days, June 6, 1944, codemane Operation Overlord, airborne troops landed in France so they could work their way back to beach, amphibious landing on coast of France, then the actual invasion, decoy operations weeks before dday gave false information so Hitler would be thrown off, Claise France, largest amphibious invasion; Atlantic Wall- concrete boxes with machine guns, metal barriers in ocean, to try to combat the invasion; Omaha, Utah, Juno, Gold, Sword were some beaches
16. Battle of the Bulge
Hitlers last major offensive, pushed to try to get to the sea to split troops and then retake France, during the winter, worst battle in terms of losses to American forces in WWII, Malmedy Masssacre, Germany unsuccesful
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
April 1945, knew nothing about atomic bomb top secret
18. VE Day
May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe day, celebration,
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 the allies won
Hitler declaring war on US, women’s work in factories; Henry Kaiser had a shipbuilding company, made more ships than all other countries combined; intelligence #11;
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