US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
■what is a home front?
◦what your doing in your home
■Selective servace and training act 1940
■this is basically a draft
■first peace time draft in us history used intill 1973
■after 73 military relied on volenteers
2. Women's role in WWII
■ women were conserned with losing there feminine image
■rosie the riviter potrayed that women could work
■women also nursed men back to health
■they taught
■did laundry
■women were vital in the war
■waves in women in the navy
■wasp is women version in the airfforce
3. African-American's role in WWII
■ broke through the racial barrier
■they made things and fought on the front lines
■they did all while being descriminated against
the tuskegge airmen
4. Asian's role in WWII
■ same as women and blacks
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
■ hollywood made propiganda films
■to buy war bonds and they sent people over seas to entertain troops
bob hope toured and intertained in alot of wars
kilroy was here helped the us with propraganda
6. Office of Price Administration
OPA was set up in 1941 to deal with rationing of goods and price controls. Food rationing included restrictions on on sugar and meat. Gasoline was rationed to 5 gallons a week. Cars had certain stickers so people would know how many gallons each car could get. With rationing came lines people had to be patient they had to wait because they was such a limited amount of food.
7. War Production Board
When the government comes together they join together to get the job done.
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
They were responsible for making the war look positive and for making goods. Everyone played a huge part in the war.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
The Battle for the Atlantic was can we get Great Britian supplies before Germanyt sinks all our ships. Speed was important can we out run them. U-Boats were submarines. Germany people in france would send messages to the U-Boats. If we intersepted them we could tell where U-boats would be so we could miss them. The convo system is where you would travel in large groups. Supply ships were in the middle and the huge warships surrounded them. Germany would travel in huge u-boats packs. UF/DF could detec t U-Boats.
Hunter-Killers were ships designed to go after U-Boats. Depth Charges were bombs that went under water and would sink the uboats.
Hunter-Killers were also airplanes made to go after uboats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Intersepting Germany and Japan codes and desifering them. We knew what the enemy was doing. Radar could detect things above the surface. Hf/Df could detect things under the water. ULTRA"MAGIC"- code name for intersepting codes and breaking them. ultra was Germany codes and Magic was Japan. it was known as very special intelligence.
Enigma was the system in which Germany transferred their info. through codes. Solving the Enigma system remains one of the great Allied triumphs of World War II.Durign periods when allied cryptanalysts were unable to solve Ednima u-boats caused great demage to Anglo-American commerce.
Bombe was the machine that desifered the codes.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Finland became an axis power.
Hilter invaded the USSR because of lebensraum. Despised the ethnic slavs ruled their jewish bolshevik masters. wanted ukraine for the farmland. could use the people for slave labor. the defeat pof the uSSr would further isolate the Allies. Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains. Didnt trust Stalin-Germany propaganda showed the stalin was planning to attack Germany. The Western Front fighting was over (except Great Britian).
Operation Barborossa-the greatest land war in recorded history summer of 1941 at 330am. June 22. the main front eventually expanded to 1490 miles and extend to a depth of over 600 miles. in the soviet union marched the best of german army(4.5 million) amounting to 3 quarter of its feild strength. by the end of the year 3,500,00 red army soldiers were in captivity and 4,000,000.
German Wehrmacht-German army in USSR was split
1 army group north whose main goal was Leningrad
2 main goal moscow centre
3 south stalingrad- caucasus oil field.
battle of stalingrad was where stalin said dont retreat or we will shoot you. Soviets are starting to push the germans back. this invasion took over 2 years. the winter hurt the Germans.
Battle of Moscow-October 1941-January 1942-hitler got to about 12 miles to moscow but he never actually got there. Winter set in it helped hitler at first but then the snow fell. The war was over when Hitler didnt take over moscow. hitler belived moscow was the major military hand political target in the USSR as it would lead to the collapse of the country. Germany got within 12 miles for moscow before the soviets troops stopped the advance. this battle marked a major turing point on the eastern front.
furious that his army had been unable to take moscow hitler dismissed his commander in cheif in december 1941 and took personal charge of the Wehrmacht(german army)
hitler took control and made all military decisions afterwards.this led many experienced german officers to go against hitler. hitler surrounded himself with staff officers with little ot no recent combat experience.
The siege of Leningrad-seige never takes over the city they just bomb it and try to make them surender and artilary fire. germany cut off all supply routes. took place on january 27 1944 872 days. it was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history and one of the most costly in terms of casualties. reports of cannibalism appeared in the winter of 1941-1942, after all birds rats and pets were eaten by survivors. hungry gangs attacked and ate defenseless people. leningrad police even formed a special unit to combat connibalism. people died of starvation. Finally, s successful russian counter-offensive at stalingrad drained necessary resources the germans needed to continue the blockade and eventually it failed. Germabns never took Leningrad but it was one of the most costly conflicts russia had ever faced. millions are people died. troops were on skies. the finland troops helped hitler.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel-dessert fox- the best german general. he was very sly. opperation torch was the us invasion of africa. Bernard Montgomery-british general in africa.
The United States won.
Fighting in the appenine mountains were hard to fight in.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Georger C. Marshall-Cheirf of Staff of the US Military during WWII. Head of everyone except president.
George Patton- United States one of the major generals. He was tough on his men he got really mad at his men. He defeted Rommel.
Dwight Eisenhower-The supreme allied commander of all allied forced in europe. He put together D-Day then he became the president of the United States.
Bradly- fought in d-day famous WWII general.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
at Normandy France at Omaha Beach. June 6 1944.operlation overlord. we had parachupers go in early and try to get control and then work their way to the beach. The english canal was rocky and it made alot of people sick. We sent false info to Germany which made the attack alittle easier. We wanted Hitler to think we were going to calay.allied invasion of nazi controlled france the assault was conducted in two phases.
1.an airborne assaula landing of 24,000 british, american, canadian and free french aircorne troops ahortly after midnight.
2. an amphibious landing of allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of france starting at 630 am. there was decoy operation to distract the germans forces from the real landing areas. the operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history with over 160,000 troops. roughly 10,000 allied causalties(6,600 US).
the atlantic wall-an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by nazi germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of europe. built as a defense against an anticipated allied invasion of the mainland continent from great britian.
16. Battle of the Bulge
hitlers last attempt to take back france. The coldest, snowiest weather :in memory' in the ardennes forest on the german/belgium border. over a million men, 500,000 germans, 600,000 americansand 55,000 british. the malmedy massacre where 86 americans soldiers were murdered was the worst atrocity commited against american troops durig the course of the war in europe. Hitler committed suicude and so did his new wife they took scinide and then hitler shot himself. Eva Braun was hitlers wife.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
April 1945 he died of a surival hererage he never saw the war end. Henry truman takes over as president.
18. VE Day
may 8,1945
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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