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US Homefront: First peacetime draft in U.S. History. Used until 1973 military needs. Used before Pearl Harbor happened. After 1973, U.S. military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
1. Selective Training and Service Act:
2. Women's role in WWII: Women were nurses. Time keepers, teachers, taxi drivers, bus drivers, laundresses were jobs women took role in. Every branch in the army had a women's division and they wouldn't be fighting in the front lines. They worked on maps. They canned their food so it lasted a long time to store when women didn't work in the factories. WAVES were the women's navy that did computer work and took photos. WASP Women's Army Service Pilots. They would test planes. Tokyo Rose- Iva Toguri..was a american Japanese women that was forced to make the U.S. guys homesick/Make them want to go home.
3. African-American's role in WWII: They fought in the Military. There was segregated units where blacks were with blacks and whites with whites. A lot of the times they did not only fight they were cooks, janitors, and cargo holders. Black women worked as nurses and in factories. African Americans stepped up to the plate and fought for their country. Tuskegee Airmen- African Americans that were pilots.
4. Asian's role in WWII: They were adapted into the war but had to wear a button to state there race. They worked in factories.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII: Hollywood provided a lot of commercials and cartoons to support the war causes and movies like Wake Island and cartoons like bugs bunny. Bob Hope a famous comedian that would sing and dance. USO/ United Service Organizations Inc.
6. Office of Price Administration: OPA was the first to discover the ration books. In the books were red points and blue points. Each point stood for how much a family would get.
7. War Production Board: Job was to keep producing stuff like metal and fuel. Used to stabilize our economy. National War Labor Board
8. National War Labor Board: Don't go on strike or complain, Use ration marks don't buy stuff from the black market. Woodrow Wilson made it and it kept peace for workers so they would not go on strike.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war:
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats: planes would drop bombs and Navy would use destroyers and torpedoes to attack U-boats/German Submarine. Speed was one thing. Depth Charges under water attack with missile
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic: Spy stuff that a spy would take photos and blackmail... most spies were British set up by Winston Churchill. ex. The White Rabbit was a spy that was caught by the Germans. Ultra magic deciphering Japanese code.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany): The code name for Germanys invasion on the Soviet Union. Stallingrad, Moscow, Leningrad were the cities. The operation failed. Why did Hitler Invade the Soviet Union? Despised the ethnic slaves ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters. Hitler didn't trust Stallon. Summer of 1941 Great Britain. The Siege of Leningrad people were starving.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy: Took place in Africa in june campaigns fought between allied and axis powers. Egypt, Moracco, Sudan, Tenisia, to control the middle east and Mussolini declared war. Americans French Italian and Germans fought. Erwin Rommel-The Desert Fox/ german General. He committed suicide because he was a traitor. Bernard Montgomery-Monty-British General. George Patton-U.S. General.. him and Montgomery did not like each other. Germany had to surrender unconditionally. Italy- Churchill called Italy the soft underbelly of Europe meaning they would be the weakest to fight. Fought up in the mountains.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley: George Marshall was the chief of staff he organized an army of 180,000 men. Dwight Eisenhower led D-Day invasion supreme allied commander. General Douglas MacArthur leader of U.S. army in Japan. Nimitz leader of Navy against Japan. Bradley was U.S. General in Africa. Patton was a general in WW2 in Europe.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord- June 6, 1944..Invasion of France and one of the bigger military moves. 2000 troops lost on Omaha Beach. Countries involved British, American, Free French.
16. Battle of the Bulge: Took place in the mountains, 19,000 americans died and Germans were attacking the allied forces. December 19 of 1944 to January 1945. We won.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over: FDR had bad health since 1942 and he was a smoker died on April 2, 1945 after he said "I have a terrible headache" then after he died Harry S. Truman took over he swore a lot and was from Missouri.
18. VE Day: May 8, 1945. It means "Victory in Europe day" it was signed May 7 and ratified May 8 and signed by Nazis.
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Island Hopping- A line on an island to cut people off just the ones with bases.
Battle of Coral Sea-May 1942 Japan fought America and Australia and damaged Lexington and Yorktown 2 U.S. naval ships for aircraft carriers it was a turning point in the war. We sank Shoho and damaged Shokoku.
Battle of Midway-Took place following month in June 1942 Japan prepared a powerful task force to attack U.S. Navy at Midway. the plan was to lure U.S. planes into a trap and we were weakened but won. Japan never could replace what happened and U.S. got stronger. Another turning point in the war.
Guadalcanal- August 7, 1942 We attacked Japan. It ended February, 9 1943 when Japan took all there troops off the island.
Iwo Jima- started February 9, 1945 lasted only a little over a month.
Okinawa- June 1, 1945 Japanese wanted to gain time but didn't succeed. America was winning
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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