8. National War Labor Board
tried to get everyone to work together to avoid strikes and have everyone get along
"together we win" brought workers and owners working together.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
used radio transmission to find out there the boats were located
convoy system- kinda like the buddy system, strength in numbers. germany just started traveling in packs also.
Churchill and Roosevelt knew the importance of intelligenct in safegaurding allied commerce to defeat the axis powers
US and GB shared info from newly developed technologies like RADAR and high frequency radio detection. HF/DF "huff duff"
provided a way to detect vessels and aircraft above the surface
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
allied leaders began sharing code breaking secrets "very special intelligence"
ULTRA and MAGIC
enigma- system germany used transferred their info thro codes. solving enigma systems remains one of the great allied triumphs of WWII
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
lebesraum- living space in the USSR that hitler wanted for people to live in when they have lots of kids that are perfect
purposed for attack- he despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "jewish bolshevik" masters
wanted Ukraine for farmland
could use people as slave labor
if he defeat the USSR it would further isolate the allies
wanted the oilfields in the caucasus mountains
didn't trust Stalin-German propaganda showed that stalin was planning an attack on Germany
western front fighting was over (except GB)
greatest land war in recorded history (man power and caualties)
3.5 mil. captive and 4 mil. had died by the end of the winter
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall- cheif of staff of the US Military during WWII. Only person above Marshall was the president.
Henry Kaiser- owner of a ship building company.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
16. Battle of the Bulge
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 we won WWII.
henry kaiser- owner of a ship company. Made it possible for the US to make more ships than all other countries combined.
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