April Fool's Day!recap on stuff. still powerpointing.US Homefront:3-29/30-111. Selective Training and Service Act3-29/30-112. Women's role in WWII3-30-113. African-American's role in WWII3-30-114. Native American's role in WWII5. Hollywood's role in WWII3-30-116. Office of Price Administration3-30-117. War Production Board3-30-118. National War Labor Board3-30-119. Why the Homefront helped win the war3-30-1110. How US/Allies fought back against U-boatsthe battle of the atlantic was about trading with great britain. to control the atlantic and the area surrounding GB. so we had to fight germany's submarines. what did we do? we built faster ships to outrun them. and later, we developed radars to detect subs. also, convoys. safety in numbers. cant sink'em all. germany retaliated with their own convoys, "wolf packs".11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magicultra: the brittish intercepting the german codeMagic: USA intercepting japan.it was just radar stuff. radar provided a means of detecting vessels and aircraft above the surface.HF/DF: used to locate the sources of enemy radio transmissions such as submarines. (huff duff)Enigma: system in which germany transferred their information through codes. solving the enigma systen remains one tf the great allied triumphs of WW2. during periods when allied cryptanalysts were unable to solve enigma, u=boats caused great damage to anglo-american commerce.The Bombe broke the Enigma. no idea how it works; precursor to computers. the bombe was the supercomputer of the day. nowadays? it cant come close to comparing with a cell phone.12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)hitler had taken over all europe but GB, and they were facing constant bombing, so hitler turned his attention to the east. all his advisors were against it. they asked him why, and he gave them reasons, some of which referred back to his book Mein Kampf.■lebensraum■despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters■wanted ukraine for the farmland■could use the people as slave labor\■the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the allies■wanted the oilfeilds in the Caucasus mountains■didnt trust stalin- german propaganda showed that stalin was planning to attack germany■the western front fighting was over with the exception of GBSo, he had some good reasons. and all looked well until that one winter, when they just died.Operation Barbarossa; the greatest land war in recorded history (mapower and casualties) began at 3:30am on June 22, 1941. the main front would eventually expand to 1490 miles and stend to a depth of over 600 miles. in the soviet union marched the best of the german army(4.5 million), amounting to three quaters of its strength. by the end of the year, 3.5 million red army soldiers were in captivity and 4 million had died in battle.German Wehrmacht (army): german army in USSR was split; 1) army group north whoese main goal was leningrad, 2) army group centre whose main goal was moscow, 3) army group south whose goal was caucasus mountains, some minor cities, and stalingrad.hitler's main focus was moscow. they got close to invading it, but never entered it. believed it was the major military and political target within ussr and if captured would lead to the collapse of the country. they got within 12 miles of the city before they were stopped.hitler wanted to take the ussr in 6 months, under time pressure because they really relied on trade and getting stuff from russia. but the army group south took longer to get over the caucasus mountains (winter). by the time they got to stalingrad (& 90% of of stalingrad was taken over), the russians to able to barely regoup and gradually push back the germans.and thus, the soviets began to push back, and by early 1943, germany was certainly starting to lose. that summer, it was clear. just a matter of how long it would take to kick them out.so hitler had been really close to taking russia. twas the winter months that were the turning point. battle of moscow.Hitler was furious that the army hadnt taken moscow. he dismissed his commander-in-chief in december 1941 and took personal charge of the army. he took control and made all military decisions afterwards. many officers started going against hitler then. so hitler surrounded himself with young officers with little experience because they wouldnt question him and he would look like a genius in their eyes.siege of leningrad. one of the largest, longest, and most destructive sieges in world history. started on september 8, 1941 when the last land connection to the city was cut off by germany. lifting of the siege took place on january 27 1944, 872 days after it began. people died on the streets, and people became accustomed to the look of death and starvation. 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 formed special units to combat cannibalism.pulled troops away from leningrad to stalingrad for backup there. eventually resources at leningrad for germans ran out. they never did take leningrad, but it was the most costly and trying conflit russia has ever faced.13. Battle in Africa and ItalyErwin Rommel - the Desert Fox. one of the best german officers ever, apparently. nicknamed so because he fought in the deserts of northern africa. also because he outwitted his opponents. fought before usa got involved. was eventually killed because he thought hitler was insane and was going to try to assassinate him. was given a choice to go down in history as a great general and die in battle, or die as a traitor. chose to be a great general.montgomery - brittain's general. patton - usa's general. they were allies, but rivals and they didnt like each other. both went after rommel. patton was not a nice guy but he was well-known and respected.14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley15. D-Day-Operation Overlord16. Battle of the Bulge17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over18. VE Day19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,20. Navajo Code Talkers21. Doolittle's Raid22. Manhattan Project23. Hiroshima bombing24. Nagasaki bombing25. VJ Day26. Yalta Conference27. Nuremburg Trials28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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