1. Selective Training and Service Act
*First peacetime draft in US history
*Used until 1973 to fill military needs
*After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
*Rosie the river was to show that women need to step up and work in the factory
*What they did during WWII
-Worked in factories
-nurses
-Secrutaries
-Typed for the government
-Farm workers
-Waitress
-Taxi drivers
-Bus drivers
-Messengers
-Teachers
-Conducters
-Photographer
*WAC is the Woments Army Core
*Waves is the Womens Navy
*WASP is the Womens Army Service Pilots
-Test airplanes
3. African-American's role in WWII
*They fought in the military
*They had seperate combat units
*They worked as cargo handlers and cooks
*They had to be superfised by whites
*Black women could still work as nurses
*Tuskegee Airmen were most famous African American pilots in WWII, they flew in the Italian Campaign
4. Asian's role in WWII
*They had to wear buttons to show their race
*They were farmers and factory workers
*Still fought in the war
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
*They provided alot of commericals to get peole to support the war
*Movies were a huge impact as well
*Cary Grand was a big actor during the day
*Bob Hope and the USO Tour was aimed at entertaning soldiers
*USO is the United Service Organization used to entertain members of the military
*From 1941 to 1947 the USO presented more than 400,000 performances
*Bing Crosby sang to the troops
6. Office of Price Administration
*The OPA was the first to discover the idea of ration books
*There were red and blue points that were used as a stirct amount of money for familes
*Delt with rationing- Only can get so much
*Even if they could afford it, they could not buy anymore than the ration books told them
*Dont use the ration book once a person dies, you must return it
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
*Created by Woodrow Wilson in WWI
*Keep peace in factories and employees
*Employees need to work out problems
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
*Mass production of goods
*Use ration books and dont buy things from black market
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
*Planes would drop bombs on them
*The navy would use destoryers and death charges
*In 1943 it had all control and it was done in 1945
*U-boats are German Submarines
*Tried to develop faster ships to out run U-boats
*U-boats on top of the water are not as deadly as U-boats under water
*Trying to avoid them
*Traveling in large numbers- convoy system
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
*The white rabit was a spy that was captured
*Spying a huge thing
*Big part of the war
*Los Alamos was where we developed the atomic bomb
*We knew it was important to protect what we were doing and know what the enemy was doing
*Code names given to us intercepting German code
*We use Ultra and Magic to fight back to U-boats as well
*Enigma is the systen is which Germany transfereed their information through codes
*The Bombe was used to break the codes
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
*United States lost alot of people during this operation
*Why Hitler invaded Soviet Union
-He wanted to invade them to get resources
-Lebensraum
-Could use the people as slave labor
-He wanted Ukraine for farmland
-Western Front fighting was over(except Great Britian)
*The code name for the German Invasion of Sovie Union
*It was the biggest military invastion in world history
*90 percent of Stalingrad was ran by Germany
*June in 1940 was when it began
*Battle of Mascow
-October 1941- January 1942
-Hitler beleived Moscow was the major militay target
-German got 12 miles of Moscow before Soviet troops stopped
-HItler took control and made military decisions afterwords
-Hitler surrounded himself with staff officers with little or no recent combat experiences
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
*Africa
*Erwin Remmel-The Desert Fox
*Bernard Montgomery- British General
*George Patton- US General
*Patton and Montgomery did not like each other
*Operation Torch
-Biritsh American invasion of French North Africa started in 1942
*Italy
*Church hill called Italy the soft underbelly of Europe
*After they invaded Africa they went and invaded Sicily
*Italy surrendered
*In 1943 we invaded Sicily then Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
*Marshall
*Chief of staff
*He was a writer for the board department
*He was a teacher
*He organized the largest military staff in history
*Eisenhower
*Supreme allied commander of all forces
*In Charge of D-day invasion
*MacArthur
*Leader of US army againt Japan
*Nimitz
*Leader of the navy against Japan
*Bradley
*Famous General in WWII in Africa and Europe
*Patto
*General of US during WWII in Africa and Europe
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
*June 6, 1944
*Allied forces invaded France
*Very big military move
*Caught Germans off guard becasue we were already invading Italy
*Known as operation overload
*When they invaded Germany had all contorl of France
*D-Day had success
*British, American, Candain, and Free French were involved
*Atlantic Wall
*Sretched from France to Norway
*System of coastial fortifactions built by Nazi Germany between 1932 and 1944 aslotn coast of Europe
16. Battle of the Bulge
*Bloodest battle in history
*We won (The Allies)
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
*When he died Harry Truman took over
*Hitelrs Suicide
-He had his body burnded so Soviets wouldnt get it
-Hitler got marreid to Eva Braun
-Eva always commited suicide along with him
18. VE Day
*Events leading up to it were the Allies getting though the German defenses
*Came from the west
*May 8, 1945
*Victory in Europe day, Germany surrendered
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
*Island hopping was a over lapping line of the islands so they couldnt have suppplies given to Japan
*They didnt shut off all the islands, just the major ones
*Strategy used to invade Japan
*Coral Sea
-They damaged Lexinton and Yorkton
-We got back at them and sunk a ship back
-It was the first time Japan didnt win
-May 1942
*Midway
-Japan thought they could win becasue they put together a powerful force
-June 1942
-Plan of Japan was the lure them into a trap
-US won that
-Main turning point in the war
-Japan was never the same
*Philippines
-December 7, 1941 was attacked as well
-General McArthur was the US general in charge of the Philippines
-He vowed that "I shall return" which he did do
-One of the worst things that Japan did to us was the baton death march
-Baton Death March was 60 miles
-Murder and physcial abuse
-POW stands for Prisinor of War
-Japan wins
*Guadalcanal
*Code name is operation watch tower
*Took place on the island Guadalcanal
*Tried to get the Henderson air field to take control
*Fought between 1942 and 1943
*Iwo Jima
*Stareted on Feb. 19, 1945
*Called operation attachment
*6,821 deaths
*Okinawa
*Started on April 1945 and ended Juny 1945
*Island close to Japan
*Was the biggest war in the islands
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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