Today we finshed our powerpoint and we might watch a video at the end of class.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Military Needs
-First Peacetime draft (up to 1973) know this!!!
-U.S depended on volunteers to fill military needs
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women started working in Factories and made military goods.
-Women were a big success in WW2
-They deserve some credit for winning the war.
(Factories, nurses, type-writers)
3. African-American's role in WWII
-Worked on planes, and fixed some up.
-Factories.
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Discrimination but they did work on plans and fixed some up.
-Fought in the war
-Worked in Factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Provide Entertainment for the troops.
-Propaganda
6. Office of Price Administration
-Dealt with price controls and rations goods.
(food, clothing, silk, gas, toys)
-A stickers
-People had to stand in lines for sugar
7. War Production Board
-Encourage factories to make as many goods for the war as they could.
-Work hard and efficient
8. National War Labor Board
-Pay workers good
-treat them well so they will work more efficently.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-We created so many military products
-Our factories were producing so many more products than any other country.
WW2=10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-They used their speed to out-run a U-boat attack.
-convoy system-travel in large groups to protect from U-boats attacks.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-HF/DF could locate submarines under water.
-Radar could tell where the enemy was. (Planes and ships)
-We tried to intercept the enemies communication system.
-They created super computers to get intelligence.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Hitler invaded Soviet Union so they could have more living space for Germans.
-Farmland
-Use the Soviet Union for slaves if they won.
-He wanted the oil fields in the Mountains.
-And he didnt trust Stalin
-Began early morning and it was a large battle.
-about 3/4ths of Germans military invaded the Soviet Union.
-Lenningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow were the main points that Germany tried to over-take.
-Germany got within 12 miles of Moscow but never did get into the city.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-U.S invades Africa to defeat the Nazi army.
-We won and Africa was free from Germany.
-We went north and Fought in Italy and fought on Appenine Mts. we defeated the Germans in Italy, and Italy was free.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
-Marshall-Boss of every other Guy on this list. Cheif of U.S Military
-General Patton was a famous U.S General. He was a tough guy, and really good General.
-Dwight Eisenhower- He was the head guy in Europe of all Alled Forces.
Omar Bradley-U.S WW2 General
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-June 6, 1944 was when this took place
-ships came on the beach and soldiers in front had a could chance of getting shot.
-We (allies) invade France.
-we lost just under 3,000 soldiers that died.
-160,000 casualties. (Died, captured, missing)
16. Battle of the Bulge
-Hitler's Last effort to win the war.
-The coldest in the forrest along the Belgium Border.
-a massive battle and a lot of casualties.
-They lost a lot of supplies as well as machinery.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-Died a month before the war ended.
18. VE Day
-War is over
-May 8, 1945 (remember)
PART 3=19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
-Island hopping was when we went from one major island to the next to push the Japenese out.
-Phillippines was an American colony and it was also bombed December 7, 1941.
-Japan took over the Phillipines.
-FDR ordered MacArthur to evacuate his troops and head to Australia.
-The "Bataan Death March," was when American and Filipino soldiers marched.
-The Japenese murdered, beaten, and starved our troops on this 60 mile march.
-75,000 American and Filipino POW's on this March.
-Coral Sea was fought on May 4-8, 1942.
-It was fought between Japenese and U.S and Australian force.
-Airplane battle
-U.S stopped their defense and basically we won, but technically no one won the battle.
-Battle of Midway was another huge boost for the U.S and we also stopped Japan's advance.
-we gained moral support and won the battle.
-Guadalcanal was really our first Offensive side of the war.
-This marked when the Japenese surrenders and they fought hard. (to the death)
-Battle of Leyte Gulf and General MacArthur came back just like he promised.
-And we destroyed the Japenese force on the Phillipines.
-Iwo Jima 6,821 Americans died in battle.
-2 American Flag raising.
-2nd was the most Famous.
-Okinawa
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-They transmitted information over the Radio in their code.
-this made it so Japan didn't know what we were doing because they couldn't read our messages.
-a big reason we won the war was because of this code.
21. Doolittle's Raid
-when we bombed the Japenese so we could gain back more power and cause confusion on Japan.
-The U.S needed more moral support.
22. Manhattan Project
-we dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
-B-29 carried the bombs and was made for carrying bombs.
23. Hiroshima bombing
-Paul Tibbits dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.
-Radiation Sickness
-LITTLE BOY=uranium
24. Nagasaki bombing
-"Fat Man" bomb, bombed Nagasaki.
-PLATONIUM
-boxcar dropped it
25. VJ Day
-August 14, 1945 Japan Surrendered and ended WW2.
-War ends
26. Yalta Conference
-Febuary 1945 FDR is still alive.
-Germany would break up in 4.
-Berlin wall was built and Berlin was split up.
27. Nuremburg Trials
-Germany
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
-we put Japenese into these camps and they were forced.
-we were afraid that they were spies.
-they had schooling and entertainment.
29. Why did we win World War 2?
-We had a lot of ships and made so much more stuff for military needs.
-We had so many products.
-ultra
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