April Fool's day. Mr. Bruns had a terrible joke.. nothing surprising.
US Homefront:
People back home making war goods, food, medical supplies.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Instituted the U.S. draft. First peacetime draft in U.S. history, was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After that, the military depended on volunteers.
George C. Marshall was the cheif of staff during WWII.
2. Women's role in WWII
Took over men's jobs. (Rosie the Riveter) Nursing. Typists, making equipment and ammunition. WASP; Women's Army Service Pilots; tested planes, transported them. Tokyo Rose forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan. She taunted the troops and played music from home. She was a U.S. citizen and was convicted of treason.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Fought in infantry, flied airplanes.
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Entertained troops overseas, put out propaganda films, portrayed Germans/Japanese as bad, ugly, and us as just and invincible. Cary Grant, John Wayne famous actors. USO (Bob Hope); sent actors/singers/dancers overseas to entertain the troops.
6. Office of Price Administration
Deals with price controls; dealt with rationing food/gas/clothing. Thousands of workers. Food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat; clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon. Gas rationing began in May 1942; limited to 5 gallons of gas per week. Assigned stickers, A allowed 4 gallons/week, B sticker; supplementary allowance for war workers, C sticker; vital occupation such as doctor, T sticker; truckers allowed unlimited gas. Black market developed in stolen or counterfeit stickers. 1945; 32,500 motorists arrested for using false stickers, 4000 gas stations closed. Everyone given booklet of stamps to buy food. Book came with instructions and 28 stamps.
7. War Production Board
Propagandatold workers not to waste time, work hard, etc.
8. National War Labor Board
Made sure workers got along, anti-strike.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
Henry Kaiser- built ships. Everyone helped make medical supplies, weapons, ammunition. Women working in factories, war production board encouraging people to make as much stuff as possible, Hollywood keeping things positive, National War Labor Board making sure people didn't go on strike. Intelligence gathering.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
We built faster ships to outrun them. Convoy system; ships travelled in large numbers. Ultra and Magic. Hunter-Killer ships and airplanes. Depth charges.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Trying to intercept and decode messages. Radar helped detect vessels and aircraft, HF/DF used to located sources of enemy radio transmissions; submarines. Ultra and Magic were the codenames for intercepting and deciphering German and Japanese codes. German; Ultra. Japanese; Magic. British and American trackers worked together to locate Axis powers using these. Enigma; German system that transferred their code, solving it's code was one of the great Allied triumphs of world war II. British "Bombe" decoded it.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Hitler invaded Soviet Union because of Lebensbraum. (living space) Wanted Ukraine for farmland, use people as slave labor, defeat of USSR would further isolate the Allies. He wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains. He didn't trust Stalin. German propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany. He also hated all the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters. Barbarossa began at 3:30 a.m. on June 22, 1941. 3/4 of German's army was here. By end of year 1, 3,500,000 Red Army soldiers in captivity and 4,000,000 dead. Wanted Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. Soviets pushed back after 90% of Stalingrad was controlled. Battle of Moscow; October 1941. Hitler believed it was the major military and political target in the USSR as it would lead to the collapse of the country. Germans got within 12 miles before Soviet forces stopped the advance. Marked a major turning point of the Easter Front. Hitler was furious, blamed commander in cheif and fired him, then took control and made all military decisions. Led many German officers to go against him. Hitler surrounded himself with staff officers with little or no recent combat. Siege of Leningrad; Septermber 8, 1941.. last land connection to the city cut off by Germany. Lifting of the siege took place 872 days after it began. One of the longest and most destructive sieges in history and one of the most costly in terms of casualties. People were cannibals, also ate pets, amongst other disgusting things. Hungry gangs attacked and ate defenseless people. Never took Leningrad, but surrounded it and destroyed a lot of it. Over a million red army captured or missing, two and a half million wounded and sick.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel-the desert fox. Very important general for Germany. Very smart, always outwitted, maneuvered, etc. the enemy. Eventually killed by Nazi's. Montgomery; Britain. George Patton; important general for U.S. Treated soldiers very roughly. Well-known and respected.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
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
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