US Homefront: What you are doing in your home country to benefit the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act- First peacetime draft in us history. It was a draft to get them in the army.
2. Women's role in WWII- Rosie the Riveter, they worked in factories, women were nurses, they were typers, they made posters to help get women to get jobs and help men enter the military, they took photos, did rationas, caning food, each branch of the military had a branch for the women.
3. African-American's role in WWII- worked in the factories and the men actually fought on the front lines or they were pilots.
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII- They made a lot of films to help make the U.S. seem like we were unstoppable, and to make other countries look like they terrible and make us hate them even more. The USO we sent comedians and actor and singers over seas to entertain the troops to make them happy.
6. Office of Price Administration If your job didnt benefit the war, if you didnt then you could only have 4 gallons of gas per year. B sticker could have more gas , and your job helped the war effort. If your job helped the war you got more gas. They didnt want people to buy to buy from the blackmarket. Truckers had unlimited amounts of gas. Controled prices and rationing. You were given books that had to last for that week then you got another book. Horse meat wasnt rationed.
7. War Production Board- They wanted to work hard and not mmess around.
8. National War Labor Board- Us org that brought workers together so that they wouldnt go on strike and so they wouldnt slow down the war effort.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats- convoy system traveling in packs, HF-Df it was used to help detact where the German U-boats were. Hunter-killer ships were sent after the U-boats.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic Utlra top-secret code for intercepting Geman code and helped us figure out their stuff. Magic- U.s. same as ultra but used against the Japanese. Eith us knowing this we know what they are doing and they dont no what we are doing. Germany sent their information through a machine called Enigma.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)- Hitler invaded because of Lebensraum and because and didnt not like the slavic people, wanted to take Ukraine because they had good farm land and then he would have slaves. Hitler was trying to paint the picture that the Soviet Union was going to attack them. This was the biggest land battle in World History 3.5 million were captured and 4 million were killed 900,000 swuare miles of Soviet Territory was controlled by Germany. They wanted to win it within 8 months. But, that didnt happen. Stalingrad Moscow and Leningrad. THis battle was the turning point in the war with the Soviet union against Germany. HItler did a siege at Leningrad. A siege is when you surround a city and cut off the flow of surplies. Since there was no food people started to eat other people. They didnt end up taking the city, they never got their infantry in the city.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy- The desert fox was our enemy in Africa and he was Germanys best General of the Wat, but they ended up killing him because he was plotting to kill HITLER. Montgomery Patton those two hated each other. We invaded Morroco in Africa and we werre fighting Vichy France Italy and German. Stalin thought we were just messing around in Africa and should help out the Soviet Union. We would make Germany unconditionally surrender. So Germany would have to listen to what we say.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley-Marshall was the second guy in charge behind FDR he was a man that sat in an office in D.C.
Nimitz He was the leader of theUs. Navy against Japan.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord-June 6th 1944 We started the invasion at night wiht parachutist. This invasion was the largest single amphianbist invasion in history. We sent out false information so that Hitler would pick up the false information and would move his troops which worked. Some of the beaches were easier to invade then other Omaha Beach was the hardest of them all.
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over FDR dies and then Truman takes over after FDR dies since he was the vice president.
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Jumping from one island ti another. We jumped on the bigger islands and took control of them. The main goal was to capture the bigger islands and cut off supplies and it was rather fast.
Philippines-THe japanese are trying to take over Manilla which is the capital of the Philippines FdR told Macarthur to leave the Philippines because he was to important and he told the people of Philippines that we would come back. We did end up having to surrender the Islands. Bataan Deth march tthey marched u.s. troops and killed them. They had to go on trial for war crimes. Battle of Leyte Gulf this is where we try to take about the Philippines and we took back the Phillippines and this was the last straw for the Japanese navy.THey did some damage to us but we did much more damage. Macarthur when he came back he knew it was going to be a big deal.
Iwo Jima- The japanese people were literally dug into the gorund so the bombing didnt really do much because they were dug into the ground. 6,821 deaths at Iwo Jima we lost more here then we did on dday. The Flag raising was on important it sold a lot of war bonds.
Okinawa- When we here it was really close to Japan.
Coral sea- it is off the cost east of Austrila. If Japan could have won this battle then they would probably try to take Austrila It was considered a win for us since it was the time we slowed down japanese fighters
Midway.-Some say that it was the most important naval battle against Japan. Japan thought that if they beat us at Midway then we would get out of the war. We pretty much dominated the Japanese navy. And they never did take Midway.
Guadaalcanal- It was a good victory for us. It was the first time we went on the attack instead of being on the defensive side of the war. This resulted in the turing around of the war and we ended up winning the war. Part of the Sulliman islands.
20. Navajo Code Talkers- We did all of our codes over the radio waves in the Navajo language. Only 30 people that weren't Navajo knew the language. Japan was never able to crack the code
21. Doolittle's Raid- Some thought his mission was dumb and a suicide mission. We were taking planes off o aircraft carriers which we werent supposed to because they weighted to much.
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. Reasons why we won the war- Henry Kaiser owned a huge factory for ships and his company made the most. He hired a lot of women to work in the factories.
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