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 volenteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rossie the Rivetor gave women the idea that they can work hard and still look pretty
- The women were a very important cause for winning the war
- they worked in:
- factories
- hospitals (nurses)
- secrataries/typists
- farm workers
- bus/taxi drivers
- messengers
- teachers
- WAC-Women's Army Corps
- stay at home mom's canned food
- WAVES- Women's Navy
- WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought in the military
- some people tried to get it so that blacks and whites were not segregated
- Tuskegie air men
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Were drafted in war but had to wear a certian button to make sure that they didn't get them mixed up with Japs
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- provided a lot of comercials for the war
- movies on the war:
- destination Tokyo
- 30 sec over Tokyo
- Wake island
- the purple heart
- Cartoons were made
- USO- Untied Service Organizations Inc. in a private, non profit organization that provides entertainment to members of the US military since 1941
6. Office of Price Administration
- were the first to come up with ration books
- Rationing- you can only get so much and you couldn't get and over supply of things
- had ration stamps and if ran out you could not buy anything else for the rest of that week
- People had to wait in line for things that they wanted
- Horse meat was not rationed so people could buy as much as they wanted
- Black market was formed and their were a lot of people who bought illegal stickers to get more money
7. War Production Board
- keep producing stuff like metal and fuel
- produced a lot of material
- used to stablize our economy
8. National War Labor Board
- created by woodrow wilson
- can't go on strike during a war
- workers and owners were supposed to get a long during the war time
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- Mass production of goods
- no strikes during war
- plant a garden/can food
- use ration books don't buy from black market
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- mostly with planes
- drop bombs on them
- destroyers, torpedos (depth chrges)
- U-boats-german subs and Germany used them in WWI and II
- Germany would take down thousands
- wolf packs-u-boats that travled in large #s
- we would try to out run the enemy
- we would also try to avoid them by radar and avoid the area where the uboats were
- we would travle in large #s. merchant sips were in middle and battle ships were along the outside
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Spies- would get info on ny circumstances
- maninly british
- double spies
- ultra and magic were code for different countries, major reason for winning the war
- Enigma- sytem in which Germany transferred their information through codes. solving the codes is a great reason for winning the war
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
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
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