1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940. homefront.
Even though we were not in the war yet, Roosevelt knew we should be ready if the war would come upon us.It was the First peacetime draft in US History. it was made so just in case we went to war, we'd be ready.Was used up to 1973 to fill military needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
*Rosie the Riveter. Represented women workers in WW2. She was one buff lady. :p Women worked i the factories. It was really that that heled open up their rights. More went to college, and more got jobs outside of their home. They were nurses. Women were also needed as farmworkers, typists, waitresesses, drivers, messangers, laundrasis, teachers, conductors, and other jobs that typically men would do. There were many posters that stated that we wouldn't be able to win the war without the women.
There were many different womens branches in the war. WAC-Womens Army Corps..did things like typing, transportating things, and desk jobs. They worked on maps, and photography.
They had rationing things that tried to make wormen not buy black market goods. They tried to get them to produce their own garden, and the more better off they're going to be.
The Navy had the WAVES.
The WASP was the Women's Army Service Pilots. They would transport planes from point a to point b, and they would test them and stuff.
***Tokyo Rose=american citizen in Japan in WW2, who broadcasted over the radio. Was eventually convicted of treason. She taunted the troops and played music from home, trying to make them stop fighting.
3. African-American's role in WWII
They were seen as inferior. Became pilots, fought on the front lines. Tuskegee Airmen were black pilots that did extremely well in Italy. Minorities played a very signifigant role, they worked in factories as well.
-The Tskegee Institiue were African Americans trained for flight at Tuskegee university. They were bombers who bombed in Italy, and Germany. They were very successful.
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Made propaganda films, and tried to get people to buy war bonds to get entertainment over seas to entertain the troops. Wake Island, Guadalcanal Diary, The Purple Heart, Destination Tokyo were all popular. Along with Casablanca. Cary Grant was a popular actor who starred in Destination Tokyo. They tried to portray the Japanese as blind, and the Germans as Materialistic.
-Bob Hope- Had yearly Christmas specials up until he died. Mr. Bruns grew up watchign him. :P He was in movies throughout the 50's and 60's. He was a comedian who went on the USO Tour. It was designed to help entertain the troops.
-John Wayne-Huge actor in WW2 in the 50's and 60's did a lot of WW2 movies, and western movies.
6. Office of Price Administration
*OPA, Rationing.
-Set up in 1941 to set up rationing and price controls. Made sure prices didn't skyrocket. 8,000 rationing boards were set up across the country. Rationing included sugar and meat, silk and nylon. They couldn't make toys of steel, and rubber. You could only get 5 gallons of gas for week, and that got even more strict as time went on. By the end of 1942 1/2 of the nations cars were issued an A sticker allowing only 4 gallons a week. The other half had a B or C sticker. B stickers were given a little more gas cause they were a war worker. C stickers were vital like doctors. T stickers had unlimited amounts of gasoline. Counterfit and stolen stickers were common. Black market goods became popular. You couldn't buy rationed goods without ration stamps. Once your stamps were gone for the week you would have to wait until the next Saturday.
Horse meat wasn't rationed, so you could get that whenever you want. That's disgusting. Why would you eat a horse?!
7. War Production Board
They kept the home fires buning, they built a lot of stuff for the war. Basically told people not to waste their time while at work.
8. National War Labor Board
They tried to bring workers and owners together so they wouldn't go on strike, and they would be able to make things more efficient.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
*The battle of the Atlantic was about control of the seas and trying to get supplies to Great Britain.
-How did we fight back? *Built faster ships that were able to out-maneuver and out run UBOATS.
*US Navy would try to intercept and find out where the UBoats were by intercepting German code.
*The convoy system.
*HF/DF was used to detect submarines under the water.
#Enigma=system in which Germany transferred their info through codes. Solving the Enigma system remains one of the great Allied triumphs of ww2.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
#We shared information ,.RADAR became better.
Ultra was the British cod name for the intercepting and deciphering of the German code. Magic was our codename and we intercepted and deciphered Japan signals.
-Battle of Midway. First battle we officialy won against Japan. This was because we knew that attak was coming.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
*Hiter invading Russia was his biggest mistake. He despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters. Wanted Ukraine for the farmland. Coud use the peopple as slave labor. The defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies. Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountans didn't strust Stalin-German propaganda showed that Stalin was planing an attak against Germany. The WesternFront fighting was over.
-The invasion of the Soviet Union. The greatest land war in recorded history (manpower and casualties). The main front would eventually expand to 1490 miles and extend to a depth of over 600 miles. In the USSR marched the best of the german army (4.5 mill) amounting to 3/4 of it's field strength. By the end of the war there were 3,500,000 red army casualties.
-The German Army went after Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad.
=The Battle Of Moscow, 280,000-400,000 German casualities. 650,000-1,280,000 Soviet casualties. turning point in the war between German and Soviet Union. Got 12 miles away from Moscow before they were pushed back. He was furious that his harmy had been able to take Moscow. Hitler dismissed his commander in chief and took personal charge of the German Army. Things started going downhill for Germany then. A lot of his older generals went after him. Hitler surrounded himself with young, inexperienced officers with little or no combat experience.
=Siege of Leningrad- (seige-surround the city, and try to starve them)-Started Sept 8, 1941. Lasted for 872 days. One of the longest and most destructive sieges in history. Reports of cannibalism appeared in the winter of 41-42 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 cannibalism. Finally, a successful Russian counter-offensive at stalingrad, drained necessary resources the Germans needed to continue the blockade, and eventually, it failed. The germans never took leningrad, but it was one of the most costly conflicts Russia ever faced. Red Army: 1,017, 881 killed, captured, or missing. 2,418,185 wounded and sick.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-Erwin Rmmel-The Dessert Fox. Leader of the Africa Corps. Our archnemisis in Africa, and fought in Europe later.
-Operation Torch. The British-American invasion of French North Africa started on November 8, 1942. My mid 43 we had defeated the Germans, Italians, and Vichy France.
-Tanks were used a lot in Northern Africa.
-Casablanca Conference in January 1942.-Month after Pearl Harbor. We said we would not make peace, and would only accept Germanys unconditional surrender. Unconditional means that whatever we force upon Germany that's what they would have to accept.
-Winston Churchill wanted to attack Italy. Italy with Mousillinis troops wasn't very strong. There were German troops down in italy, they were in control of the Appenine Mountains. Even though Italy surrendered they weren't freed from German control until 3 months before the war ended.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley.
Marshall--Chief of Staff of the US Military during WW2. The only guy above him was FDR, and eventually Truman. He was making the rules, and doing all the stuff in the war Dept. in DC. Eventually becomes secretary of state.
George Patton--Him and Montgomery didn't like eachother much. Always carried around an ivory pistol. Believed that if you could walk and hold a gun you could fight. Defeated Rommel.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-The turning point of the War. We invaded France because Germany had control of them.
-Dwight Eisenhower was in charge.
-Operation Overlord. Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France. The assault landing of 24,000 British American, Canadian, and Free French airborne trops shortly after midnight. An amphiious landing of the allied infantry and armored divisiones on the coast of France starting at 6:30am.
-Was on June 6, 1944. There were also decoy operations to distract the German forces fromthe real landing areas. The operation was the largest amphibious invasio nin world history with over 160,000 troops.. Roughly 10,000 Allied casualties.
-The Atlantic Wall-extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942&44 along the western coast of europe. Built as a defense against the allied troops.
16. Battle of the Bulge
-The ultimate goal was to make a bulge in the front line. We eventually stopped Germany, and after this it was basically done. Hitler put so much thought into it.
-CTook place in the German/Belgium Border. Over a million men participated in this battle. there were over 20,000 killed.
-One of the worst battles for American losses in WW2.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-Died April 8, 1945. Harry Truman took over for him. Died of a Cerebral hemorage which is a brain issue.
18. VE Day
-Hitler dies a few weeks before this.
-Victory in Europe day. May 8 , 1945. Huge day of celebration.
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Island hopping, you hop over islands. You would hit bigger, more strategically important islands, and skip acouple, hit another. US Military strategy in the pacific against japan. Eventually the islands in between would have to surrender because their supplies would be shut off.
Philipines- December 7, 1941. Took 6 months for Japan to take over the Philippines.
Bataan Death March- Americans and Flilipinos were forced to walk 60 miles. Took place in march 1942. 75,000 American and Filipinos were forced to walk. Close to 20,000 died. Worst thing put on the US soldiers during ww2.
-Coral Sea-fought from May 4-9 1942. Major naval battle between the Japanese and the Nallied navy and air forces from the US and Australia. While japan sank more ships than the allies, it was a strategic victoy for the Allies as is was the first time we stopped the Japanese from advancing.
-Battle of Midway-Widely regarded as the most important battle against Japan. Fought between June 4&7, 1942. Japanese aimed to eliminate the US as a strategic power in th Pacific and believe a victory at Midway would do that. US Navy decisively defeated the Naval attak against Midway Island. Japans Navy suffered heavy losses and never recovered from this battle. Magic played a vital role in the allied victory. -not magic like Harry Potter.,like I originally thought. :P
Guadalcanal-fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 in the Solomon Island Archipelago. First time we went on the offesive and we defeated Japan. Ultimately resulted in the Japanese surrender, and the end of WW2.
-Battle of Leyte Gulf-big battle in the Phillipines. 1944. This was us trying to take the Philipines back. After this the Japanese Navy was completely destroyed.
-Iwo Jima-6,821 deaths at Iwo Jima. This was a massive battle for us. There were 2 flag raisings in Iow Jima. First was Feb 1945. The reason they wanted to put a second flag up was because the first one was too small. They were raised on Mt. Suribachi.
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-They transmitted our military info over the airwaves via their navajo language. Very few people spoke Navajo. This was one of the reasons we won WW2.
21. Doolittle's Raid
-in April 1942. Several months after Pearl harbor. Bombers took off from aircraft carriers. James Doolittle was a pilot in this.
Americans madly needed a morale boost, so we attaked Japan. The attak would cause confusion in the minds o fthe Japanese.
Had an effect on Japan that helped us. They thought that if we were able to pull this attak off within months of pearl harbor, they thought they needed to extend the area that they control. It lead to the battle of Midway.
22. Manhattan Project
-Code name for the development of the atomic bomb. General Leslie Groves was put in charge of the scientists for making the atomic bomb.
-J Robert Oppenheimer was the lead scientist that was set in charge of making the bomb. He was a communist, but not a spy for the Soviets. Alamagordo, New Mexico was where we tested the bomb. The government said that it was just an explosion of an ammunition dump.
-The first explosion of an atomic device was called Trinity. Where we tested the atomic bomb.
-Enola Gay. the b29-super fortris was named the plane that would drop the bomb.
-Paul Tibbits was the one that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.The name of the bomb that was usedat Hiroshima was called "Little Boy".
-They had a specific target for each city. The rule was if you couldn't see the target you wouldn't drop the bomb.
-The Atomic Shadow.
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
-this ones bomb was called the Fat Man. The Bockscar was the one that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Nothing really went right for this one. They almost ran out of gas. The bomb didn't do a lot of damage, and it missed the target. But it helped end the war.
25. VJ Day
-August 14,1945. Japan surrenders, ending WW2. There was mass celebration.
26. Yalta Conference
-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and other people grouped together, it decided on what would happen in Germany at the end of the war.
-Germany would be broken into four occupation Zones (US, GB, France ,ussr)
-Berlin was split. Germany was into 2 sides.
-Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over.
-Hae a conference at san fran to set up the UN.
27. Nuremburg Trials
-high up nazis appeared on Trial for the holocaust. Herman Gerring took over for Hitler. He was the leader of the Lufwaf in ww2. He commited suicide during the trial process.
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
-Places the Japanese were forced to move to to WW2. We told them it was for their safety, but really it was because we didn't trust them. We didn't do this to German-Americans. A lot of racism was involved. They were desolate areas. There was entertainment, and schools.
29. Why did the allies win WW2?
-Hiters mistakes like invading the Soviet Union, and his military. We ultimately won because we had more stuff than the other militaries.
--Henry Kaiser. He owned a ship company that hired women and other people to help make ship. We were making more ships by the end of the war than any other country in the world. *WW2 is when we really became the super power.
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