US Homefront:
its what people are doing back home to help with the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act 1940
first peacement draft in US history
used until 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 workers in WWll.
-jobs the did during WWll:
farm workers,sales people, taxi drivers,bus drivers,messengers,teachers,conductors...
womens navy- the waves.
WASP-womens army service pilots.
3. African-American's role in WWII
worked in factories.
the guys fought in the wars.
bombing.
fighting on the frontlines.
doing this and being discriminated against.
tuskegee institute-african american bombers in ww2. italy and germany they bombed.
D-day- june 6, 1944.
allied invasion of nazi controlled france.
2 pahses. needed the full moon so they could see,
1. airbourne assualt
2. amphibious landing
160,000 troops
AtlanticWall:
wall to stop the invasion from great britain
from spain to norway.
4. Asian's role in WWII
asians pretty much same thing as african - americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
made propaganda films-wake island, the purple heart, casablanca, destination tokyo
6. Office of Price Administration
OPA and Rationingg- office of price administration \-1941. control prices
gas, meat, sugar, clothing
A-sticker- 4 gallons of gas a week. <--- common american.
B-sticker
C-sticker
T-sticker (best)
7. War Production Board
factories made as much stuff and as quickly as they could.
work hard.
8. National War Labor Board
wanted everybody to work together. dont want workers going on strike.
workers and owners working together.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
faster ships. speed. and being able to detect them.
intercept german code.
travel in numbers
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
allied comerce to defeat the axispowers.
radar for detecting vessels and aircraft abover surface
we knew what the enemy was doing but they didnt know what we were doing. BIGGG advantage.
enigma- machine transfers info through codes
Bombe- broke the code.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
hitler invading soviet union. wanted ukrain.
despised people living there. farmland. slaves.
didnt trust Stalin<--- planning to attack germanyy.
greatest land war recorded in history
German wehrmacht.
Battle of moscow: 280,000-400,000 german casualties
650,000-1.280,000 soviet union casualties
hitler believed moscow was the major military and political target. lead to collapse of the countryy.
Germany was stopped 12 miles from moscow and then got pushed back by soviet troops.
this operation made german officers fo against hitler.
he put young and inexperienced people in the miliatry so they wouldnt question what he was up to.
they started losing and that made him go crazyy. losed his mind-literalyy.
the siege of leningrad:
city was surrounded and was cut off by Germanyy. sept 8 1941. last for 872 days.
cannibalism happened there.
hungary gangs beat up defenselss people and then ate them.
one of the most longest and most destructive sieges in history.
had a cannibalism unit.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Irwin Rommel-The Desert Fox-leader of Afrika
put to death by german nazis cause he was gonna take over hitler.
he was sly and sneakyy.
operation torch- we wanted to defeat Germany, Italy, and Vichy France
Casablanca Conference "unconditional surrender" jan. 1942
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall- chief of staff of the US military during WWll.
General George Patton-defeated Rommel. goes down in history.
admiral chester nimitz
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
up in number 3
16. Battle of the Bulge
coldest winter on record
worst battle for american forces in ww2.
germany loses A LOT.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
april 8, 1945
18. V-E Day
may 8, 1945-victory in europe day.
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
island hopping-strategy to cut off supply lines.
Coral Sea: turning point of the cold war for japan.
naval battle.
Battle of midway- war against japan
japan suffered and never recovered from this battle.
japanese aimed to destroy the US.
MAJORturning point
dec. 7 1941-phillipines. big defensive for japan. wanted to knock US out of the war. we didnt really fight until a year later.
bataan death march-march 1942. filipinos were forced to march a track. 60 miles. people even died.
Guadalcanal
august 7 1942
victory for us
we defeated japan
20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
bomb japan. april 1945
james doolittle-famous pilot
22. Manhattan Project
General Leslie Grooves.
j robert oppenheimer- communist.
trinity- testing atomic bomb
23. Hiroshima bombing
uranium 235 "little boy"
atomic shadow
exploded
24. Nagasaki bombing
"fat man"
imploded
25. VJ Day
august 14 1945
japan surrendered and that led to world war 2 ending.
people celebrated
26. Yalta Conference
feb.1945
the fate of post war europe was dictated at this conference
germany would be broken into four occupation zones. US GB France and USSR.
27. Nuremburg Trials
GI Bill of Rights- helped the members of the armed forces ajust to civilian life after separation of service.
give those who cant afford higher education
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
japanese forced to go here after ww2.
we didnt trust them, we thought some might be spies
29. why did we win WWll?
Henry Kaiser???
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