1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940
it is the draft
first peace time draft in history- after 73' the millitary depended on volenteers
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter-represented women workers in WWII
nursing- to help with injuries
secretaries for war letters for deceased
farmer,sales people, drivers, messangers, teachers
women ultimatly helped us win the war. in the home front.
womens army corp.-desk jobs,maps
waves- womens navy-desk jobs
wasp-womens army service pilots-test planes and move them around to new locations
3. African-American's role in WWII
still discriminated against
faught valiently in all areas of the military
the tuskegee institue- they were bombers
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
entertained troops
looney toons-john wayne-sending people over to entertain troops
Bob Hope
6. Office of Price Administration
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
makeing faster boats and being able to out manuver the u voats
intersepting germany transmissions/code
convoy system saling in bulk.
aspying and code breaking shared info
radar-hf/df-detectade uboats like sonar
enigma- german code sender- spolving the enigma machine was the greatest win in wwII-told us what they were planing
bombe- ultimately broke the code of the enigma machine
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
ultra-britain- code name for the intecepting and decifering of german code-less u boat attaches
magic-US-code name for the intercepting and decifering of japanese code-battle midway-first actual win against japan
both very top secret!! we worked together
hunter killer- ships and airplanes that tracked down u boats
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
wanted ukraine-farmland- wanted oil fields in the caucasus mountains
lead by their jewish bulshivik- hated stalin with a passion.
defeating the ussr would further out isolate the allies- western front fighting was over.
use the people as slaves
THE BIGGEST LAND BATTLE IN WWII on june 22 1941
4.5 million german soldiers invaded
wanted ussr to be taken over quickly.
germanies army was split north-lenigrad - seige of leningrad started sept. 7 1941 ended jan. 27 1944 lasted 872 days- people resorted to canablisam. police had a special canablism combat force. but never took leningrad.
center-moscow- was the main focus got 12 miles away from moscow. battle of moscow turning point in the war
south-staligrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel- the desert fox- gerneral in the war in africa
Bernard Montgomery-monty
OPERATION Torch- invaded maracho in africa
casablanca confrense- before africa- ultimatly fdr and church hill called an unconditional surrender of germany.
sicilty and italy were very mountain so an uphill battle
italy was the soft spot of the axis power. and of europe
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall-chief of the US military during WWII-his boss was the pres. second highest
Goerge Patton- was a major us gerneral- tough on troops- defeated rommel.
Admiral Chestar Nimitz- admiral of the us navy against japan
Mcarther- fled and returned to the philipenes back in spt 1944
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
had two phases
1 para troopers
2the invastion by water on the beaches of normandy
the atlantic wall
had cement walls and artilery fire and medal wall and machin gun turrents
16. Battle of the Bulge
hitlers last major offensive attach
to get to the sea and split the troops and take france back over.
coldest snowiest winter
over a million men were in the fight
the malmady masacure were 84 US soldiers were killed... just shot..
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
die april 8 1945 a month before ve day.
truman took over
18. VE Day
May 8 1945
Victory in Europe
parties every were
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
during island hopping there were two big pushes.- smart and saves lives...
May and June of 1942 the turning point in the pacific...
Dec 7 1941 attached more counries other than US... the philippines took 6months to take the philippenes
the batton death march..philippenao island of batton... pow had to march 60 miles from one camp to another...75000 altogether..6000-11000 men died but thought closer to 20000... japan officaly apoligized in 2009... ....Fall of 1944 Mccarther returned to leyte gulfafter the battle of leyte gulf- masivly destoyed the remnints of the japanese navy and...retook the philippenese
battle of coral sea- by australia- it was a turning point in the pacific- 6 months after pearle harbor- first naval battle that ships didnt fight ships.. planes fought every thing...stopped japanese advance
Battle of Midway- japan thought they need ed to exstend the "defense perimiter" so they advanced on midway- fought between June 4-7 in 1942-tried to get us out of the war- suffered a heavy loss to the japanese navy- magic was a vital role in the victory of midway.- MAJOR turning point in the war.
Guadalcanal- in the solomon island chain- was fought on aug. 7 1942
was the first offensive battle that we fought and started the way to japan ad the victoy and surrender and the end of WWIIjungle a huge factor
Iwo Jima-right next to japan-invaded iwa Jima the beach front was easy but the rest of the island was tought because the japanese were dug in the ground- 6821 U.S. soldiers lost thier lives at Iwo Jima
had two flag raisings on Iwo Jima - a major battle
Okinawa- right next to japan-bimbed japan alot... shelled the island before invading to soften them up...took it ove and bombed japan form there..
20. Navajo Code Talkers
The US had the navajo indians translate and speak code to send military messages... very vital in the war
in 1982 ronald Regan first recognised the code talkers.. 24 medals were given out in 2001...
21. Doolittle's Raid
was the main general in the pacific... in april 1942
bombed japan right after pearle harbor and boosted moral of american and knocked japan down
had the bomber planes take off on the plain boats and- stipped the planes down to the bear minimum
22. Manhattan Project
General Leslie Groves- wanted to fight on the lines and not really in charge of the scientists
code name for the atomic bomb
J Robert Oppenheimer-communist and was the leading scientist in the project- was not a spie
brighter than the sun
the enola gay was specially built plane to drop the bomb...named after the pilot paul tibbits-dropped on hiroshima
23. Hiroshima bombing
the little boy- the uranum 235- uranium atomic bomb... total destuction... closer people desinigrated...aimed for the t shape bridge..
24. Nagasaki bombing
the fat man-plutonium- was dropped and inploded... nothing really went right... almost ran out of gas... didnt hit the target didnt do alot of damage...
25. VJ Day
japan surendured on the uss arizona... emporer on the radio
26. Yalta Conference
stalon, churchill and fdr febuary 1945
basically the fait of germany was desided here..
set the stage for the cold war....
germany in four zones - us gb and france - western germany
ussr- east germany
east germany- all communist
joins the japanese war after we drop the atomic bomb
27.the Nuremburg trials
the nazi war crimes trials for the holocaust and other crimes....
Japanese internment Camps in the US
Why did the allies win WWii?
wner- makeing more ships and stuff than all other countries combined
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