More notes. and i am in a terrible mood cause Mr.Bruns cause he played that STUPID friday song.
US Homefront:
■ It is what people are doing at home to help with the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
■ First peacetime draft in the US
■After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
■Used until 1973 to fill military needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
■Rosie the Riveter
◦Represented women workers in WWII
■Nursing was popular
■Farm workers, typist, waitresses, time keepers, messengers, teachers, bus/taxi drivers, factory workers.
■They did other jobs but did not actually fight in war,
■WAC=Womens army corps
■WAVES=Womens navy
■WASP=Womes army service pilots- transported planes from place to place.
■Tokyo Rose...
3. African-American's role in WWII
■Worked in factories
■Guys fought
■Alot of bombing
■fighting on frontlines
■they were being discriminated against
■Tuskegee Institute- Pilots that were trained to bomb.
4. Asian's role in WWII
■Basically the same kinda stuff as African Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
■Hollywood made propaganda for war
■Entertained troops
■Made advertisements for war
■The purple heart is an example
■Cary Grant was an actor
■Casablanca is a movie they made for WWII back in the day.
■John Wayne. STUDDD!!!!! love him!
■Kilroy was here
6. Office of Price Administration
■Set up in 1941 to set up rations and pricing items.
■8000 rationing boards were created to volunteer.
■food rationing included restrictions on sugar, meat; clothing, restricted silk and nylon
■Gasoline rations began May 1942 limiting to 4 gallons of gas per week.
■There were stickers for gas things
■T sticker=truckers for unlimited amounts
■C sticker-doctors for important jobs
■B sticker=for others.
■Black market developed in stolen or fake stickers that were used in 30% gas sales..
■by 1945 32,500 motorists were arrested for using these stickers and 4000 gas stations were closed for taking part in this.
■People had to stand in lines for sugar because they were allowed only limited amounts
■Horse meat was not rationed.
7. War Production Board
■They made alot of stuff as quickly as they could
8. National War Labor Board
■Wanted everyone to work together.
■It was trying to get people to stop going on strike
■workers, owners, ect working together to get jobs done.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
■faster ships and being able to flow through them faster
■intercept German code
■Travel in numbers
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
■Spying
■intercepting codes
■Radar and detecting things above the surface
■HF/DF used to locate the sources of the enemy radio transmissions such as submarines (#10)
■ULTRA and MAGIC were like code names for Very intelligent.
■They would begin sharing code-breaking secrets using ultra and magic
■Enigma was what germans used to send out their information
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
■Lebensraum
■Wanted Ukraine for the Farmland
■They could use their people as slave labor
■the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
■Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains
■The western front fighting was fighting over
■June 22 1941 Barborossa
■The main front expanded 149 miles to a depth over 600 miles
■In the soviet union marched the best of German Army amounting to three quarters of its field
■Germans occupied some 900000 square miles in the Soviet Territory by the end of war
■Battle of Moscow- October 1941-January 1942
■Germany invaded!
■280,000-400,000 German casualties
■650,000-1,280,000 Soviet casualties
■Hitler believed Moscow was the Major military and political target in the USSR as it would lead to rhe collapse of the country
■Germany got within 12 miles of Moscow before Soviets stopped the advance
■Marked a MAJOR turning point in the Eastern front
■Hitler took control and made all military decisions afterwards
■This led many German officers against Hitler
■Hitler surrounded himself with staff officers with little or no combat experience.
■The Siege(surrounding the city/bombarting) of Leningrad
■Started in September 8, 1941 when the last land connection to the city was cut off by Germany
■The actual seige took place on January 27, 1944 and last 872 days!
■These places inside the city that was surrounded the people would starve to death
■because of starving people people would eat rats, bird, pets and other humans
■hungry gangs came into play and people would attack defensless people and eat them..
■Leningrad police even formed a special unit to combat canibalism. YUCK!
■Red Army
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
■Erwin Rommel-The Desert Fox (Africa)
■he was the best German General of the war.
■He plotted a death for Hitler and was put to death himself
■Operation Torch-Code name for our invasion of French North Africa (moracko)
■Started in Nov. 8, 1942
■by mid 1943 we defeated Germans, italians, and the Vichy France! WE ARE AWESOME!
■Cassablanca Conference-January 1942
14. US Generals-
Marshall, Chief of staff of the US military during WWII
Eisenhower, Head guy of D-Day
Patton, One of the Best Generals in US
MacArthur,
Nimitz, Admiral of US navy against Japan.
Bradley
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
■June 6, 1944
■We invaded france because German had control.
■Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France
■Conducted in 2 phases
◦an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and free french airborne troops
◦an amphibious landing of allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting at 6:30am.
■Decoy operations to distract the German Forces from the real landing areas
■The operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world historywith over 160,000 troops
■Roughly 10,000 Allied casualties (6,600 US.) dead missing captured!
■The Atlantic Wall- an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of Europe
■Normandy Invasion- June 6, 1944 starting point of D-Day
16. Battle of the Bulge
■Coldest snowiest winter on record
■over a million men fought in this battle
■800 tanks lost on both sides, 1,000 german aircraft was lost
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
■Island hopping was exactly what it sounded like.
◦We hopped over the small island over to biggeer island going towards Japan.
◦US military strategy to cut off supply lines that are run by Japan
■Japan took over Philipines
◦December 16, 1941
◦Bataan Death March-
◦75,000 american and filipino POW's marched to POW camp
◦was characterized by physical abuse and murder
◦Code talkers didnt get recognition.
◦secret codes for military strategy.
-Coral sea:
*Major Naval battle between japanese navy and Allied naval and airforces from the US and Australia
-Midway Battle
*Between Just 4-7, 1942
*Most important naval battle against Japan
*US navy decisively defeated the Japanese Navy attach against Midway!
-Guadalcanal
*August 7, 1942-February 9, 1943 in the Soloman Island Archipelago
* Marked the transition by the allies from defensive operations to offensive that resulted in Japans evantual surrener and the end of WWII
-Philipines again....
*Battle of Leyte Gulf.
-Iwo Jima
20. Navajo Code Talkers
◦Code talkers didnt get recognition.
◦secret codes for military strategy.
21. Doolittle's Raid
-James Doolittle led the attack on Japan.\
-April 1942.
22. Manhattan Project
- Oppenheimer and Groves
- Oppenheimer is communist
23. Hiroshima bombing
- Uranium 235
- Littler bomb
- Caused an atomic shadows
24. Nagasaki bombing - Nicknamed fat man
- Bockscar
- Imploded
25. VJ Day - Victory in Japan day!
- August 14, 1945
- Japan surrendurred ending WWII!
26. Yalta Conference - Feb. 1945
- Set the stage for what would happen in Germany after WWII
- The Big Three-Churchill, Stalin, and roosevelt
27. Nuremburg Trials - War crimes trial
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
- Japanese were forced to sell everything and move to these camps
29. Why did allied powers win WWII?
■Henry Kaiser was a ship builder helping to improve the war and army ect.
**Battle of Atlantic
■Build faster more efficiant ships
■To make water traffic more flowy
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