Today we continued the Power Point
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-This was the first peace draft in US history. It drafted people into the war, without volunteering.
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women didn't seem to matter much during this time, until they had to go take over the men's jobs in factories. Rosie the Riveter was a symbol that showed women, it was okay. With them making a lot of the items for war, it helped us to win. They were also great nurses, farmworkers, typists, waitresses, elevator operators, teachers, conductors, and worked in the Womens Army Core (WAC). Women also had their own version of the navy called The WAVES in this they would work the phones and stuff.
3. African-American's role in WWII
- African American's were greatly segregated against in the wars. Many of them worked in factories, flew planes, and they had all black units, not with white.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-This was the first peace draft in US history. It drafted people into the war, without volunteering.
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women didn't seem to matter much during this time, until they had to go take over the men's jobs in factories. Rosie the Riveter was a symbol that showed women, it was okay. With them making a lot of the items for war, it helped us to win. They were also great nurses, farmworkers, typists, waitresses, elevator operators, teachers, conductors, and worked in the Womens Army Core (WAC). Women also had their own version of the navy called The WAVES in this they would work the phones and stuff.
3. African-American's role in WWII
- African American's were greatly segregated against in the wars. Many of them worked in factories, flew planes, and they had all black units, not with white.
- The Tuskegee Institute was from Africa America, they halped bomb a lot of areas.
4. Asian's role in WWII
- They were segregated against also, and had their own units also along with working in factories.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- During this time, a lot of movies were made about the war. Casablanca and Bombing Tokyo are a couple of examples. Some people from the states like Bob Hope, would travel to the troops and entertain them.
6. Office of Price Administration
- (O.P.A.) Delt with price controls and rationing of goods so that prices didn't get too high. Put restricions on sugar, meat, and clothing so that you could only buy a certain amount in a certain amount of time. If you had certain jobs that helped with the war effort, you would have a better advantage for gas over others. This made the black market develop better.
7. War Production Board
- They tried to encourage factories to make do as much production as they can. Your not at war, don't waste your time while at work not making things for your troops who are.
8. National War Labor Board
- Tried to bring the workers and owners together. Don't strike, and pay your workers decently.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-The homefront is where we made all our stuff, kept the war positive, and every individual did their part. People worked factories well.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- German's submerines were doing really good attacks, sinking thousands of ships, trying to stop goods to Great Britian. Ultimitly we were able to create faster boats to try to escape them. We were also able to get a radio transmission center that would be able to figure out where theese U-boats were so that we could avoid them and other ships.
4. Asian's role in WWII
- They were segregated against also, and had their own units also along with working in factories.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- During this time, a lot of movies were made about the war. Casablanca and Bombing Tokyo are a couple of examples. Some people from the states like Bob Hope, would travel to the troops and entertain them.
6. Office of Price Administration
- (O.P.A.) Delt with price controls and rationing of goods so that prices didn't get too high. Put restricions on sugar, meat, and clothing so that you could only buy a certain amount in a certain amount of time. If you had certain jobs that helped with the war effort, you would have a better advantage for gas over others. This made the black market develop better.
7. War Production Board
- They tried to encourage factories to make do as much production as they can. Your not at war, don't waste your time while at work not making things for your troops who are.
8. National War Labor Board
- Tried to bring the workers and owners together. Don't strike, and pay your workers decently.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-The homefront is where we made all our stuff, kept the war positive, and every individual did their part. People worked factories well.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- German's submerines were doing really good attacks, sinking thousands of ships, trying to stop goods to Great Britian. Ultimitly we were able to create faster boats to try to escape them. We were also able to get a radio transmission center that would be able to figure out where theese U-boats were so that we could avoid them and other ships.
We also came up with a Convoy system where we would travel with more ships, the supply ships in the middle.
(this hits number ten and eleven): Allied intellegence were able to disifer German code. HF/DF was able to detect things under the water like sources of enemy radio transmission. RADAR found stuff above the surface.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- We began to use codes such as Ultra and Magic to identify Allied and Axis boats. Theese codes were used betweeen British and American trackers.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- We began to use codes such as Ultra and Magic to identify Allied and Axis boats. Theese codes were used betweeen British and American trackers.
-Enigma machine- What Germany eventually started to use to transmit their codes.
-Bombe- was the machine that desifered the code.
-Hunter Killers were ships and eventually airplanes designed to go after U-boats.
-Hunter Killers were ships and eventually airplanes designed to go after U-boats.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Why did Hitler invade the Soviet Union?
Lebensraum. Despised teh Slavs ruled by Jews, wanted the Ukraine farmland, could use people as slave labor. Didn't trust Stalin. Wanted the oil in their mountains. The werstern fron fighting was over, so he thought he could turn to the communists then.
- Operation Barborossa took place in the summer of '41. It's the greatest land war in history. By the end of the summer over four million soldiers had died.
- German Wehrmacht (army)'s goals were to Split in different areas and attack the specifics. The cities: Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow. The battle lasts a couple years, when Hitler only wanted it to be about six months, it was eventually thier downfall.
Battle of Moscow- Hitler never made it to Moscow. When he got twelve miles from it, the Soviet Union pushed them away. It marked a turning point in the war when they did. Hitler then became furious that they hadn't won, and took personal control of the army. His generals got agitated, and they started to question him. He got rid of all his older generals, and got younger inexperienced ones so that they wouldn't question him. Some of the decisions he made weren't the best for Germany, and allowed the Soviets to win.
Siege of Leningrad- They started to blockade the city, and bomb it. They cut off all communication lines inside, they couldn't get food. It lasted 872 days, and was one of the largest sieges in history. Cannibolism then started and pets were eaten by survivors. There were gangs that went up after people to eat them. Finally a russian counter offensive- they took all the necessary resources that germans needed to blockade, and the blockade failed. Germans never took Leningrad.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel- 'the desert fox' one of the best Germany generals head of the Afrika core.
Bernard Montgomery- 'monty' wast the british general.
A lot of the battles taken place in Africa, were tank battles. We freed Africa after about a year, once it was free we moved north to help other areas. Eventually we moved to Italy.
The government seemed to have surrendered quite quickly, and became an allie of ours. Germans had control of the higher of the mountains. It took us about three years to get it officially free from the Germans becuase they stayed and battled us.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US Military during WWII. He stayed in Washington D.C. controlled all the men in the military. President the only person above him.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US Military during WWII. He stayed in Washington D.C. controlled all the men in the military. President the only person above him.
George Patton- the U.S. general in Africa. He was very tough on his troops. He helped us win a lot of fights.
Dwight Eisenhower- Was the supreme allied commander of ALL allied fources in Europe. Became president of the U.S. after World War II.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
In June 6, 1944 we prepared to invade France. Germans put up barriers to try to slow down our ships. We through out infermation that we were going to port most of our fources in the wrong area, and they fell for it.
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
Why did we win World WarII? :
Henry Kaiser- He was a major ship builder/ industrialist. We built more ships, weapons, tanks airplanes than the Axis powers, that all the other countries couldn't keep up. It helped up majorly.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
In June 6, 1944 we prepared to invade France. Germans put up barriers to try to slow down our ships. We through out infermation that we were going to port most of our fources in the wrong area, and they fell for it.
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
Why did we win World WarII? :
Henry Kaiser- He was a major ship builder/ industrialist. We built more ships, weapons, tanks airplanes than the Axis powers, that all the other countries couldn't keep up. It helped up majorly.
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