1. Selective Training and Service Act
homefront-what we are doing back home to help win the war
-instituted the US draft (1st peacetime draft in US history)
-used until 1973
2. Women's role in WWII
-worked in factories (represented by Rosie the Riveter)
-worked as nurse, farm workers. typist, sales people, bus driver, taxi driver, time keeper, elavator operation, laundry, teacher, conductor
-waves for women (navy)
3. African-American's role in WWII
-tuskegee Institute that trained African Americans to be pilots and then bombed
-minority men worked in factories or were in the war.. faced discrimination and segregation
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Did everything that white people did but were discriminated against
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-films and cartoons were propaganda pieces
-entertained soldiers
6. Office of Price Administration
-administer price controls
-set limits on prices
-rations.. certain stickers gave more gas than others
-with rations came black market
-stamps for food.. couldn't trade or give others
-had to wait in lines for getting their stuff
-horse meat not rationed
7. War Production Board
-production wins the war.. keep the home fires burning.. SUCCESS
8. National War Labor Board
-together we win.. get behin your labor-management committee
-workers didn't go on strike
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-convoy system: traveling in a big group
-everything was about trying to figure out and decode the enemies messages.. HF/DF could detect subs
-ships and airplanes fought uboats
-depth charges were bombs that would be sent in the water where they could damage or destroy uboat
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-Code name given for the intercepting of enemies codes.. ultra=germany and magic=japan
-helped us win the war b/c we could avoid subs
-solving Enigma system for Germany that transferred messages
-bombe actually broke the code
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Hitler invaded (even with people saying no) b/c of: lebensraum, didn't like Slavs, Ukraine for farming, ppl for slaves, defreat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies, oilfields in Caucasas mountain, didn't trust Stalin, western from fighting was over
-by end of war 3 and a half million red army soldiers were being held captive and 4 million died
-largest land battle in history
-1941
-main goal was to capture Moscow.. turning point of the war
-Hitler took control of the army and it went downhill.. got rid of people who knew what they were talking about
-seige of leningrad.. surround the city and bombaard it.. largest siege in world history.. supplies were cut off.. cannibalism appeared after all birds, rats, and pets were eaten.. gangs attacked and ate defenseless people
-Hitler never got Moscow or Leningrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-Montgomery-Britain
-Patton-US
-Desert Fox (Rommel)-Germany
-Patton and Montgomery went after Rommel
-went after Italy first (weakest)
-Casablanca Conference FDR and Churchill decided to not make deals with Germany and it's going to be an "unconditional surrender".. Germany gets whatever terms we give them
-We took Sicily first then were able to get to Italy
-Italian goverment surrender quickly and became allies w/ us
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-June 6th 1944.. day late.. full moon to see
-Day of days
-Day everything starts
-Phase 1
-airborne assault.. 24,000 Dropped in at midnight
-threw a lot of falso information out to confuse Hitler
-Phase 2
-roughly 10 thousand Allied casualties.. went in with 160,000 troups.. invasion
-Atlantic Wall w/ machine guns that Hitler built
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE 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-skip of non-important islands and end up surrounding and cutting off their supplies anyways
-phillipines-December 16
-Baton Death March-Japanese forced US and Phillipinio POWs to march to a new place (6000 to 11000 dead)
-May of 42 Japan takes over Phillipines
-Coral Sea-1st naval battle in US history where neither ships fired at each other
-Midway was victory for US thanks to MAGIC
-Phillipines taken
-Guadalcanal-first US offensive
-Iwo Jima-knocking on Japan's door
-d-day like invasion
-lost just under 7000 soldiers
-Worse than DDAY
-Feb 23rd 1945 first flag went up
-Okinawa- bombing Japan heavily
-almost every major city had been destroyed
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-Native American's put military into code and then others couldn't figure out
21. Doolittle's Raid
-plane's fly off air craft carrier in middle of the ocean
-American's wanted revenge
-Good for physcological reasons not for miliarial
-strip down bombers
22. Manhattan Project
-General Leslie Groves in charge
-J Robert Oppenheimer.. communist.. scientist in charge
-tested bomb in Alamogordo, NM.. July 1945.. Named Trinity
-Enola Gay was plane strong enough to carry heavy bombs
-Paul Tibbits piliot (Enola Gay=mom)
23. Hiroshima bombing
-US bombed
="little boy"
-alternative to invading
-radiation sickness
24. Nagasaki bombing
-"fat man"
-"Bockscar" plane again
-much stronger bomb
25. VJ Day
-August 14, 1945
-Japan surrenders and ends WWII
26. Yalta Conference
-Germany broken into 4 (US, GB, France, USSR)
-Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe
-Stalin promised to join war against Japan after Germany was over
-Conference in San Francisco set up the United Nations
27. Nuremburg Trials
-Herman Goering took over when Hitler killed himself
-GI BIll of Rights helped WWII people transition back into normal life
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
-forced Japanese to pack everything they had in suitcases and move to internment camps
Why did the Allies win WWII?
-women working in the factories (:
-Industrialists (like Henry Kaiser) helped to make more supplies etc. in factories
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