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 volenteers2. 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 airfforce3. 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 against4. Asian's role in WWII■ same as women and blacks5. Hollywood's role in WWII■ hollywood made propiganda films■to buy war bonds and they sent people over seas to entertain troopsbob hope toured and intertained in alot of warskilroy was here helped the us with propraganda6. Office of Price AdministrationOPA 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 BoardWhen the government comes together they join together to get the job done.8. National War Labor Board9. Why the Homefront helped win the warThey 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-boatsThe 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 uboats11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/MagicIntersepting 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 split1 army group north whose main goal was Leningrad2 main goal moscow centre3 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 ItalyErwin 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, Bradleymarshall■he had a desk job and was the head of the us military15. D-Day-Operation Overlordat 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.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 Overlordat 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 Bulgehitlers 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 overApril 1945 he died of a surival hererage he never saw the war end. Henry truman takes over as president.18. VE Daymay 8,1945 victory in europe day19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,island hopping-it is going from one island to another. hit major island hop over minor island. They islands inbetween are going to suffer because their supply line was cut off. It saved time money and lives because they minor islands had to surrender even though they were never attacked.philippines-controlled by the United States until Japan took it over. was attacked on dec. 7 1941 by japan. we where forced to leave philippines when japan was invaded. manila is the capital. 6 months after pearl harbor the united states surrendered the philippines. May 1942.Battan Death March the japanese forced american and filipios to march on this death march. 60 miles. forced to move from one camp to another many were murdered. was characterized by physical abuse and murder. 6,000 and 11,000 men died maybe closer to 20,000. May 30 2009 japan officially apologized for this event.we retookthe philippines in 1944.MacArthur's return to the philippines in september 1944coral sea-major turning point.it was a major naval battle between the japanese navy and allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. the battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged eachother. May 4-8 1942. we stopped their advance they had to fall back. we lost more ships. airplane battle.midway-another major battle. widelt regarded as the most important naval battle against japan. june 4-7 1942 the japanese aimed to eliminate the united states as a strategic power in the pacific and believe a victory as midway island would do just that. United States navy decisively defeated the japanese navy attack against midway island. Japan's navy suffered heavy losses and never recovered from this battle. magic played a vital role in the allied victory.guadalcanal-august 7 1942 and feb. 9 1943 in the solomon island archipelago- group of islands. the guadalcanal compaign was significant strategic victory by allied forces over the japanese in the pacific theatre. marked the transition by allies from defensive operations to offensive that results in japan eventual surrender and the end of WWII.iwo jima-we didnt face as much restictance as we thought. 6,821 US deaths at iwo jima.okinawa-camacause attacks were planes with aimo that would fly straight into ships to blow them up. We were really close to japan.20. Navajo Code Talkersthey were supposed to transport our messages in their language and then we would code them. not every many people knew how to speak the language. transported info through the airwaves in their language. they were treated horrible. they didnt like doing this. if the navajos were captured by a japanese person you were to kill them so the code didnt get out.21. Doolittle's Raidjames doolittle. Roosevelt wanted to attack japan as quickly as possible. the japanese people had been told they were invulnerable...an attack on the japanese homeland would cause confusion in the minds of the japanese people and sow doubt about the reliability of their leaders there waws a second and equally22. Manhattan Project23. Hiroshima bombing24. Nagasaki bombing25. VJ Day26. Yalta Conference27. Nuremburg Trials28. Japanese Internment Camps in US29. why did we win?Henry Kaiser had a company that built ships. We made so many more things than anyother country. Ships airplanes tanks. Industrialists.Women played a big role. Industrialists played a huge part.Casablanca Conference-Uncondicianal surrender German would do what ever we told them toonuclear weapons are defensive weapons
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