Blog discussion today. No assigned blog for this week!!
Notes:
US Homefront:
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
- they would help make weapons and things for the war to send off to the troops
- grew and canned their own food
- took over many other jobs
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought in the military
- the blacks civil rights leaders made seperate units
- worked as cargo handlers and cooks
4. Asian's role in WWII
- fought in the war
- worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- made movies and shows to try and get people to join the war
- entertained the troops
- cartoons were full of propaganda
- made the enemy look bad
6. Office of Price Administration
- was the first to discover ration books
7. War Production Board
- produced a lot of materials
- used to stabalize our economy
8. National War Labor Board
- created in WWI
- used to keep peace between workers in the factories
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- got people interested in the war
- kept victory gardens
- wouldnt talk to anyone about the war because they could be a spy
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- mostly fought with planes
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- mostly spy stuff
- had to bring in enemy information
- the lusy spy ring was an anti nazi organization
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- was the code name for germanys invasion of the soviet union
- soviets were not prepared for it
- operation failed
- goal was to take over 3 major cities
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- the campains fought between the allies and major powers
- was also called the north african campaign
- fought for two reasons
- to control the middle east and to keep control of natural resources
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Eisenhower
- was in charge of the D-Day invasion
Patton
- was a US general durring WWII in africa and europe
MacArthur
- was the leader of the US army against japan
Nimitz
- was the leader of the US navy against japan
Bradley
- another famous general in africa and later on europe
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- June 6th 1944
- allies invaded france
- 160,000 allies that crossed
- caught the germans off guard because since they were already invading italy that they would come in from the south
- 6,000 ships, 5,000 fighter planes
16. Battle of the Bulge
- took place at the end of the war
- around the ardenous mountains
- named the largest and bloodiest battle of WWII
- the germans were attacking the allied forces
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
- was a smoker and had heart problems
- was the president at the time so it added pressure
- roosevelt was replaced with truman when he died
- truman left office as the least popular president of all time
18. VE Day
- May 8th 1945
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Midway
- took place in 1942
- america wasnt ready and were weak
- they knew it was coming and just had to wait to ambush them
- they lost a lot of equipment and couldnt keep up with the factories in the US
Iwo Jima
- was a volcanic island chain
- february 18 1945
- was one of the last big battles
- was an invasion on the sea
Okinawa
- started on april 1st of 1945
- was the biggest war in the pacific islands
- started a suicide mission crashing into other planes
- they would pack their plane with explosives and crash into ships
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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