US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- Passed in 1940
- First peacetime draft in US history
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riviter- women labor poster
- Worked in factories
- Proformed men jobs
- Made war materials
- Red Cross, nurses, and other military organisations
- Test airplanes- WASP- but didn't fight or drop bombs
- Secrataries for the govn't and war effforts
- Farm Workers
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Segrigaated but faught in war
- Red Tails- great pilots and fighters
- Work at farms and factories
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Faught- war badges to show they were not from Japan
- Were translaters
- Worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Made videos that illistrated hate to Germany
- Bob Hope- born in Brittan- great American commidian, writer, and worked with troops UnitedServiceOrganisation
- Entertained troops and homefront
- Propoganda
- News Reels
6. Office of Price Administration
- Rationing- to limit food for families.
- Kept prices low.
- Limited Gas- stickers
- Black Market
7. War Production Board
- Started by FDR
- Produce war materials- ammo
- Women made things for the war
- Made factories produce as much as possible
- Peace time efforts to war time efforts
8. National War Labor Board
- Started in WWI
- Workers when unhappy go on stike
- We needed production
- Save efforts of labor untill after war
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- Supplies and Food
- Rationalizing
- Women
- Propaganda
- Positive
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- Sunk thousand of allie ships
- Speed- faster ships
- Use of Ultra
- HF/DF- under water radar
- Convoy System
- Anigma was the tool used by germans
- Bombe- computer that decoded
- Hunter Killers and Dept Charges
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Ultra- Brittish name to decode German's messaging code
- Knew what Germans were going and doing beacuse we desyphore the codes
- Criptlanilists- people who desyphere the code
- Magic- Allie forces that the US desyphere Japan codes
- People also spied
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Hitler's biggest mistake
- Biggest invasion in history
- Millions of men died
- Blitzkrieg
- Why?
- Hitler wanted reasorces and a place for the over flow of Germans- Lebensraum
- Dispised because of Slavs and communists
- Farmland and Oil
- If they could pull it off, US couldn't afford to get in the war.
- Didn't trust Stalin
- Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow
- Siege of Leningrad- bombard and surround city
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Tanks and Panzers
- First area where we started fighting
- Erwin Rommel- the Desert Fox
- Out witted US- didnt like Hitler
- Bernard Montgomery- Monty
- British general
- George Patton- US general- allies but not friends with Montgumery
- Operation Torch- invading North Africa and Italy
- 1943- defeated N. Africa
- Moved up to the Italy
- Late summer of 43- Sicily
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
- George C. Marshall- guy at DC making decisions.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- IKE- Supreme Allied Comandar in Europe. D-Day and battle of the bulge
- George Patton- Africa against Rommel. Moved up to Europe
- Douglas MacArthur- Head of Army for Japan
- Chester Nimitz- Navy general. Head of Navy of Japan
- Omar Bradley- Africa and D Day
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- Operation Overlord
- June 6, 1944
- Allie invasion of Nazi controlled France
- Stages
- 1- airborn assault landing of 24,000 airborn troops after midnight
- 2- an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armed divisions on the coasr of France starting at 6:30
- Decoy operation operations to distract the German forces
- 10,000 causalties
- Atlantic Wall- Nazi Germany build between 1942-44
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Belguim
- Hitler's last attempt to defeat Allies front line
- Panzers
- Worse battle for the US in WWII
- Massive German Offenceive
- Worse than D Day
- Malmedy Massacre
- German lost a lot of oil
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
- FDR died right before Hitler commited suicide
- Died of ceribral brain stroke. Blood flow stoped to some rooms
- Truman was responible of the atomic bombs at Japan
- Working with ending racisum
- 2nd term upset
- Very unpopular in 2nd term
- Fired MacArther
18. VE Day
- May 8, 1945.
- Famous kiss
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
- Island Hopping- Couldn't take contol of all of the islands
- Attack and control bigger more important islands
- Skip over some smaller ones
- Saves time, money, and lives
- Smaller islands would forfit or retreat
- Phillippines- Dec 7, 1941
- Japanese attacked the Phillipines same day as Pearl Harbor
- Phillipines Bataan Death March- US treated baddly by Japan
- 60 mile tranfe of 75,000 American and Flip to a POW camp
- Coral Sea-
- May 4-8, 2012
- Stale mate- US victory
- Aircrafts
- Midway
- June 4-7, 1942
- Midpiont between Hawaii and Japan
- US won- important
- Needed to win so we were closer to Japan
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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