US Homefront:
Why we won the war?
-Henry Kaiser- had factories that pumped out a lot of goods
1. Selective Training and Service Act
■instituted the draft
■first peacetime draft
■war was upon us
■needed men
■used unitl 1973 to fill military needs
■after 1973 US depended on volunteers
2. Women's role in WWII
■worked in factories
■took over mens jobs
■Rosie the Riveter
◦represented women workers in wwii
■nurses
■became secretaries and typers
■farm workers
■waitresses
■bus/taxi drivers
■Army
◦WAC- womens army corps
■Navy
◦WAVES
■Airforce
◦WASP- Womens army service pilots
■Tokyo Rose- she was a US citizen in japan, convicted of treason
3. African-American's role in WWII
-same as white men but with discrimination
4. Asian's role in WWII
-same as white men but with discrimination
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-entertained troops
-put out propaganda films
-make people hate germans and japanese
-made us look strong and powerful and unbeatable
-Kilroy- worked in docks... put his symbol on ships
6. Office of Price Administration
-administered price control
-made sure prices didnt skyrocket
-rationed goods
-sugar and meat
-broke rations into A B andC stickers- depended on occupations
-truckers had T stickers- unlimited
-black market for fake stickers
-ration book with stamps
7. War Production Board
-encouraged factories to produce a lot and be very efficient
-did a good job because we did produce a lot
8. National War Labor Board
-tried to make sure owners of factories and workers got along well
-couldn't afford to have people go on strike
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-producing materials
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
■Germans went undersea because the British boats above water were too good
■u boats- german subs
■battle for atlantic- control the atlantic- control trade to britian
■how did we fight back
◦speed
◦intercepted german transitions/allied intelligence
◦convoy system- ships travelling in large numbers
◦germans did this too-called them wolf packs
◦hunter/killers
◦depth chargers- underwater bombs
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
■Radar- detected vessels above water
■HF/DF- detected vessels under water
■ULTRA-codename for the intercepting of german code
■MAGIC- codename for the intercepting of japanese code
■enigma-system in which germany transferred their info through codes
■bombe- machine that broke the code
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
■Germany invades Soviet Union
◦believe that the country that dominated this area would rule for years
◦lebensbraum-needed room
◦despised the ethnic slovs in USSR
◦good farmland
◦people slaves
◦believed it would isolate the allied powers
◦wanted oil fields in caucasus mts
◦hated stalin-didn't trust him
- Operation Barbarosa-
- greatest land war in recorded history
- HItlers greatest mistake (invading USSR)
- June 22nd 1941
- millions of soviet people died
- Germans did really well at first
- winter sets in and germany starts not doin so hot
- German wehrmacht (Army)
- Army group north- Leningrad
- Army group centre- Moscow
- Army group south- Stalingrad
- Battle of Moscow
- germans never got there- 12 miles away
- Hitler thought this was key to take over USSR
- hitler got angry about losing
- fired the commander in chief and hitler took over command
- hilter got all crazy
- started firing the older experienced officers because they were questioning him- surrounded himself with young unexperienced officers
- Seige of Leningrad
- surrounded and bombarded the citiy
- one of the largest seiges in history
- supply line got cut off to the people in the city
- starving people
- reports of cannibalism
- birds, rats, pets were eaten by people
- started to get gangs on the street that would kill and eat people
- formed a special police unit to fight cannibalism
- Battle of Stalingrad ended the seige
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Erwin Rommel- The Desert Fox
- best german general
- name was involved in hitler assassination
- killed by nazis
- Bernard Montgomery- Monty
- Britian General
- George Patton
- United States General
- known for treating soldiers really rough
- defeated germans in africa
- died in a car crash in germany
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
■Marshall-chief of staff of US military during wwii
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
29. Why did we win WWII
■Allied Intelligence- we knew what the enemy was doing
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