1. Selective Training and Service Act- First peacetime draft in us history. It was a draft to get them in the army.
2. Women's role in WWII- Rosie the Riveter, they worked in factories, women were nurses, they were typers, they made posters to help get women to get jobs and help men enter the military, they took photos, did rationas, caning food, each branch of the military had a branch for the women.
3. African-American's role in WWII- worked in the factories and the men actually fought on the front lines or they were pilots.
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII- They made a lot of films to help make the U.S. seem like we were unstoppable, and to make other countries look like they terrible and make us hate them even more. The USO we sent comedians and actor and singers over seas to entertain the troops to make them happy.
6. Office of Price Administration If your job didnt benefit the war, if you didnt then you could only have 4 gallons of gas per year. B sticker could have more gas , and your job helped the war effort. If your job helped the war you got more gas. They didnt want people to buy to buy from the blackmarket. Truckers had unlimited amounts of gas. Controled prices and rationing. You were given books that had to last for that week then you got another book. Horse meat wasnt rationed.
7. War Production Board- They wanted to work hard and not mmess around.
8. National War Labor Board- Us org that brought workers together so that they wouldnt go on strike and so they wouldnt slow down the war effort.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats- convoy system traveling in packs, HF-Df it was used to help detact where the German U-boats were. Hunter-killer ships were sent after the U-boats.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic Utlra top-secret code for intercepting Geman code and helped us figure out their stuff. Magic- U.s. same as ultra but used against the Japanese. Eith us knowing this we know what they are doing and they dont no what we are doing. Germany sent their information through a machine called Enigma.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)- Hitler invaded because of Lebensraum and because and didnt not like the slavic people, wanted to take Ukraine because they had good farm land and then he would have slaves. Hitler was trying to paint the picture that the Soviet Union was going to attack them. This was the biggest land battle in World History 3.5 million were captured and 4 million were killed 900,000 swuare miles of Soviet Territory was controlled by Germany. THey wanted to win it within 8 months. But, that didnt happen. Stalingrad Moscow and Leningrad.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley-Marshall was the second guy in charge behind FDR he was a man that sat in an office in D.C.
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. Reasons why we won the war- Henry Kaiser owned a huge factory for ships and his company made the most. He hired a lot of women to work in the factories.
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