US Homefront:
what people do at home to help with the war..
1. Selective Training and Service Act
first peacetime draft in US history.. used untill 1973 to fill military needs.. After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs..
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter.. represented women wokers in WWII.. poster "child" for women workers.. they became nurses, secretaries,factories workers, farmworkers, sales people, waitresses, messengers, teachers, conductors, etc.. women helped us wim the war because they help build/make military weapons and clothes.. women did NOT fight in the war.. womens army core did things like typing, sending things, and yahh.. they made maps did photagraphers.. encouraged to grow their own gardens and things.. WAVES- womens navy.. they only did things like answering phones and typing and things like that.. WASP- women's army service.. they tested them and they transported them.. "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri.. american citizen in japan.. "forced" to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for japan.. in these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music form home ahe tried to morolize US troops.. convited of treason..
3. African-American's role in WWI
worked in factories.. but many of them fought in the war.. flew planes.. fought on the frontline.. bombing the enemy.. all while being discriminated.. Tuskegee Airman.. they were trained by the Tuskegee Institute.. they were really good bombers..
4. Asian's role in WWII
kinda the same as african americans...
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
entertained troops.. try to get people to buy war bonds.. got people over seas to entertain them and yahh.. heavy propaganda.. showed them to hate the enemy and things like that.. they were very racist.. told them to help with their part in the war.. Bob hope was a comedian.. and he was sent to try to entertain the troops.. it gave the troops something to look forward too and it gave them some time off..
6. Office of Price Administration
established in 1941 to administer price controls.. it included food rationing and that included restrictions on sugar and meat; clothes rationing restricted silk and nylon.. gasoline rationing began in 1942.. limiting use to five gallons per week.. half of the nation's automobile were issued an A sticker, allowing 4 gallons per week.. the pther half had either a b(war workers) or c(doctors, teachers).. and T stickers for truckers which was unlimited.. black markets were made and they gave out fake/counterfeit stickers at gas stations.. 5-10% of gasoline sales..
7. War Production Board
all about production.. make sure factories made everything they could.. don't waste time!
8. National War Labor Board
Government didnt want workers going on strike..
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
built fastermore moveable ships, out run u-boats... convoy systems.. u-boats went down drastically because of ULTRA..
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
intercept German codes... (messages).. spying, decifering codes, decting things on the surface. ULTRA was nickname code for intercepting and deficering german codes.. enigma was a system in which Germany transferred their information through codes.. Solving this system was one of the great allied triumphs of WWII..
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Lebensraum (pretty much baby maker camps....) despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevick" masters.. wanted Ukraine for the Farmland.. Could use the people as slave labor.. the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Aliies.. Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains.. didn't trust Stalin-German propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany.. The Western Front was over except by GB..
The greatest land war in recorded history(manpower and causalties).. June 22, 1941.. Hitler wanted this to end quick.. in around 6-9 months..
-Battle of Moscow..
280,000-400,000 German causualties.. hitler beleived Moscow was the major military and political target in the USSR as it would lead to the collapse of the country.. Germany got within 12 miles of Moscow before Soviet troops stopped the events.. Furios at 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..
-The Seige of Leningrad..
itstarted on sept. 8, 1941 when the last land connection to the city was cut off by germany.. it was one of the longest and most destructive seiges in history and one of the most costl in terms of the most costly in terms of causualties.. people often died in the streets.. due to starvation.. many turned towards cannonbullism to get their protein.. germansnever took it over though..
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel- The Dessert Fox.. he tried to kill hitler.. failed attempt:( Tank warfare was popular in africa.. Casablanca Conference.. 1942.. they went under unconditional surrender with germany.. (the germans had to surrender..) they have to listen to our terms.. germany has to apologize or something.. Germans were in control of the mountains of italy.. Ger,any had to agree on anything we pushed on them... (only if they uncinditionally surrendered..) italy was a huge area where americans fought and died.. it was tough fighting in the mountains against the germans..
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall.. Cheif of Staff of the US military during WWII- head dude of the military.. General Patton.. Dwight Eisenhower.. he later became president..
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
Day-Day (the day we attack) Operation overload.. Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France.. The assult was conducted in two phases..
1. an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Free French airborn troops shortly after midnight..
2. an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France..
There were also decoy operations to distract the German Forces from the real landing area..
16. Battle of the Bulge
Hitler knew we were "knockin on Germany' door".. the coldest, snowiest weather.. "in memory" in the Ardennes Forest on the German/Belguim border.. over a million men.. 800 tanks lost on each side 1,000 German Aircraft.. Hitler couldnt take the lose and stuff like that so he killed himself.. and Joeseph Gubbles killed himself and his wife and kids because thats how much he followed hitler.. he poisened them with a pill while they were sleeping.. yahh... horrble people! Hitler's wife killed herself too.. i wonder how she could like hitler.. i mean he was horrible.. Hitler dies about a week or soo after FDR dies..
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
May 8, 1945.. Nazis gave up and people were soo excited.. he knew nothin about the atomic bomb which shows how top secret it was..
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa:
the idea was to attack bigger islands to get to Japan.. because as we hop around the smaller islands they will eventually be surround so the will surrender.. it saves time, money, and most important lives.. it is a very useful military strategy.. in the pacific islands... Philipines.. was and american controlled island.. December 1941, Japan took the Philipines.. we only wanted to surrender bataan.. but the japanese general insisted that we surrender all.. Bataan Death March.. 60 mile forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino POW's to a POW camp.. was characterized by physical abuse and murder.. Due to this and other crimes Japanese Officials had war crimes against them.. (horrible japanese people!) 1942 we surrendered.. in march..
20. Navajo Code Talkers
they kept our information secret.. the code talkers received no recognition untill the declassification of the operation in the 1968.. in 1982 the code talkers were given a certificate of recognition by the US president Ronald Regan, who also named August 14, 1982 Navajo code day...
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 we won WWI
Philipines.. was and american controlled island.. December 1941, Japan took the Philipines..
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