1.Selective Training and service Act - 1940
-first peacetime draft in US history
-used until 1973 to fill military needs
-after 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2.Woman in WWII
-they worked like nurses helping the soldiers
- work in factory
3. African-American's role in WWII
- black woman worked in factory
-volunteer to fight
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Had to wear a button so people knew they were US citizens
-Farmers and fought
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Made cartoons and movies to help war efforts and to have people donate money for the war efforts
-Bob Hope famous comedian, sang, and danced and he would entertain the troops
-The USO- United Service Organization none profit organization that entertains the troops
6. Office of Price Administration
-OPA first to discover a ration book
-each family would get a ration book so they could spend what they needed not how much they wanted.
7. War Production Board
-Government organization that encuraged people to produce as much as possible
-mass production
8. National War Labor Board
-Woodrow Wilson made it and kept peace between workers so they didn't go on strike
9. How the US Homefront helped win the war
-mass production and women worked in factories so more men could fight
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-depth charges and airplanes with destroyers, convoys
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-Spies would go under cover to get info. from the enemy
-Code name for intersepting enemy codes
-Huff Duff sonar and radar
-Enigma: System Which Germany transferred their information through codes
-Bombe helped decode things
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Germany attacked USSR with 3 million soldiers and 1.5 thousand tanks
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-We entered the war in 1941
-Reasons Oil resources, and see who would control Africa
-Allied forces won
-Erwin Rommel the desert fox tried to kill Hitler and committed cuicide
-Bernard Montgomery- Monty- Great Britan
-George Patton- United States, had ivory pistols. US General in Africa
-Operation Torch- British- American incasion of French North Africa
-Casablanca Conference- January 1942, unconditional surrender
-Churchill called Italy the soft under belly of Europe and said we should invade them
-Italy very mountainous
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George Marshall US chief of staff main guy except president of the United States.
-Dwight Eisenhower- led D-Day, supreme allied comander in charge high in all allied forces army
-General Douglas MacArthur- leader of US army of Japan
-Patton- above
-Admiral Chester Nimitz- leader of Navy against Japan
-Omar Bradley- General in Africa for US
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-June 6, 1944 allied forces invading Nazi controlled France, successfully, Airborne assault, British, American, Canadian and free French
-amphibious attacks
16. Battle of the Bulge
-19,000 americans died, Hitlers last try at the war Largest and bloodiest battle of the war
-December 1944 January 1945 US won
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
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
29. Why did the Allies win WWII?
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