1. Selective Training and Service Act
-1940.. first peacetime draft in US history used til 1973 to fill military needs..
2. Women's role in WWII
rosie the riveter - represented women workers in wwii
-women deserve alot of credit for winning the war because they made supplies and war good food and medical supplies..
-women were nurses not just workers in factories..
-secretaries..
-farm workers.
-bus drivers.
-elevator operators..
-conducters.
-typists..
-womens army corps.
-WAC- ^^ lookin over maps, photograpy..
-major ration.. only so much stuff per week..
-grow your own, can your own..
-WAVES-women's navy..
-wasp- women's army service pilots..
-tokyo rose - iva toguri
-forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for japan..
- in these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home..
-she was a US citizen in Japan
-convicted of treason..
-teskegee airman..
3. African-American's role in WWII
-black and whites were not mixed..
-fighting in WWII
-werent given the right to fight right off the bat..
-some men worked in factories..
-did what alot of white americans did.. but all segregated..
4. Asian's role in WWII
-faced discrimination..
-fought in war..
-same as any white or black soldier would do in the war.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-bob hope and USO tour- comedian..
-went over and entertain the troops..
-famous singers..
-safe havens and entertained..
-famous for his comedy shows..
-john wayne..
-kilroy-inspected ships; put "kilroy was here" on ships he inspected..
-different countries had different people do it ..
6. Office of Price Administration
-set up for price control..
-food rationing.. (sugar and meat)
-clothes rationing.. (silk and nylon)
-gasoline; 5 gal per week..
-half of the nations automobiles were given 4 gals per week.. A stickers..
-other half were given B and C stickers to people for more gas..
-32,500 people arrested for false stickers..
-1300 convictions..
-4000 gas stations closed down..
-standing in lines to get things..
-coming out of great depression made it easier..
-horse meat..
7. War Production Board
-gov't organization that wanted companies to produce as much as they could..
-pick up pace, efficient..
-made more stuff that all countries combined during the war time..
8. National War Labor Board
-worker and owner..
-pay right..
-get along..
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-factories
-women working
-victory gardens
-made more supplies than all other countries added together..
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-speed..
-outrun the U-Boat attacks..
-there were german people in france transmitting info to the U-Boats and we got that channel, and knew where not to go..
-monitoring the enemy radios..
-convoy system..
-travel in large groups..
-power in numbers..
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-churchill and roosevelt know the importance of intelligence in safegaurding allied commerce to defeat the axis powers..
-us and gb shared info from newly developed tech. like radars and high frequency radio direction finding..
-huff duff..
-located axis powers extreme precision..
-enigma "magic"-- system that germany used to transfer their info thru codes..
-solving the enigma codes was one of the largest triumphs of WWII
-when they couldnt figure it out they were caused great damage..
-avoided german U-Boats..
-bombe-was the actual machine that decifered the codes from the enigmas..
-hunters-killerss- chasing down an axis submarine..
-designed to go after u-boats..
-depth charges..
-hunt and kill U-boats..
-mines..
-like around the sharks home, like on nemo.. "BOOM!!" dnt get too close..
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-greatest land war in recorded history..
-began at 3:30 A.M.
-the main front would eventually expand to 1490 miles and extend to a depth over 600 miles..
-in the soviet union marched the best of the german army.. (4.5 mil.) amounting to 3 quarters of their strength..
-german wehrmacht (army)
-german army in ussr was split..
-army group north whose main goal was leningrad..
-stalingrad
-moscow..
-caucasus..
-snipers.. (i love snipers and sniping..)
-soviets are trying to push back..
-germans try hard to free people..
-operation winter storm..
-unsuccessful..
-lot of fighting going on in germany and soviet union..
-germans are doing counter offences..
-soviets trying to push back..
-stalingrad was devestated..
-biggest land operation in history..
-battle of moscow- oct. 1941 to january 1942..
-hitler never got to moscow, but he was close..
-in the begining hitler is always doing well..
-first cold weather helped hitler at first..
-ground froze, good..
-snowfall.. bad for hitler..
-12 miles from moscow..
-soviets pushed them back..
-hitler was not going to win at that point..
-300,000-400,000 germans killed.
-650,000-1,280,000 soviets killed..
-hitler believed that moscow was the major military and political target in the ussr as it would lead to the collapse of the country..
-hitler got within 12 miles of moscow when the soviets stopped them and pushed them back..
-furious that his army had been unable to take moscow, hitler dismissed his commander-in-chief in december 1941 and took person charge of the german army (wehrmacht)
-hitler took control and made all military decisions afterwards..
-this led many experienced german officers to go against hitler..
-hitler put many inexperienced staff officers with no combat experience..
-the siege of leningrad
--started on september 8 1941 when the last land connection to the city was cut off by germany..
--lifting of the siege took place on january 27, 1944, 872 days.. after it began.
--longest and most destructive sieges in history and one of the most costly in terms of casualties..
-cannibalism appeared in the winter of 1941-1942, animals and people..
-hungry gangs went after defensless people..
-leningrad police put out a force to combat cannibalism..
-people died of starvation..
-a successful russian counter-offensive at the stalingrad, drained nessesary resources the germans needed to continue the blockade and eventually failed it..
-germans never took over leningrad, but it was one of the most costly conflicts russia has ever faced..
-finnish troops helped germany in leningrad..
why did hitler invade the soviet union..
-lebensraum..
-wanted ukraine for the farmland..
-racist..
-could use the people for slave labor..
-biggest mistake of the war..
-wanted the oil fields in the caucasus mountains..
-didnt trust stalin- german propaganda showed that stalin was planning to attack germany..
-the western front fighting was over (except for the bombing of great britain..)
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-erwin rommel- the desert fox.-germany in afrika core..
-ebrnard montgomery-british in africa..
-casablanca conference- january 1942 unconditional surrender..
-unconditional surrender..- gotta do anything they want you to do..
-we made a huge difference in africa..
-just kept going north. and moved into medditerrainian..
-many german troops in italy..
-sicily, very mountainous and very hard to fight..
-lot of americans fought in italy to free them from germany..
-tuskegee institute..
--trained african americans, pilots.
-well done flying and bombing italy..
-lot of medals for their action in WWII
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
-patton was general for US..
dwight eisenhower- ally commander of all ally forces in europe..
-became president of united states..
-ike, patton, and bradley..
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-operation torch..--africa..
-june 6, 1944..
-machine gun turretts..
-paratroopers, people who parachute in..
-france was heavily defended..
-being sick because the english channel was very rocky waters..-puking..
-threw out info wanting them to hear it..
-put them off track..
-threw them off. and put them in the wrong spot and they thought that they were going to get lucky and get some kills..
-numerous beaches were different countries were hitting..
-day of days.. the day when we invade..
-people got lost in the planes..
-decoy opperation
-largestamphibious invasion in world history with over 160000 troops..
-the atlantic wall..
- costal fortifications built by nazi germany along the western coast of europe..
-built as a defense against an anticipated allied invasion of the mainland continent from great britain..
-battle facts..
--the coldest snowiest weather "in memory" in the addenes forest on the german belgium border..
--the maimedy massacre the 8 american soldiers were murdered was the worst atrocity commited against american troops during the course fo the war in europe..
16. Battle of the Bulge
--battle facts..
--the coldest snowiest weather "in memory" in the addenes forest on the german belgium border..
--the maimedy massacre the 8 american soldiers were murdered was the worst atrocity commited against american troops during the course fo the war in europe..
-hitlers body was supposed to be burned..
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17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-died a month before the end of the war..
-cerebral hemridge..
-truman is sworn in..
-went thru great depression and all the war but he didnt get to see the last and end of the war..
18. V-E Day
-may 8th, 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
29. Why did we win the war?
-henry kaiser, built ships that helped the war..
-made so much more stuff than any of the other countries..
-weapons, tanks, planes, ships..
-industrialists..
-ships helped us win the war..
-women helped majorly by buliding a lot of stuff and doing a mans job..
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