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)
- code name for the invasion for Germany invading Soviet Union
- stalingrad(South), moscow(Centre), liningrad(Army group north)
- Hitler broke the non-aggression pack because he didn't trust stallin
- Hitler wanted more land and natural resources
- Lebensraum
- Despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters
- wanted Ukraine for the farmland
- could use the people as slaves labor
- The deafest of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
- Wanted the oilfeilds in the Caucasus mountians
- Didn't trust Stalin-German propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany
- The western front fighting was over (except GB)
- Hitler mever made it to Moscow and gets mad, so he took control
- stalin grad- Germany tooke over
- leningrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Africa
- Allies and Axis powers
- north african campagin
- 3 reasons
- to control the middle eastern oils
- to see who would have control of Africa
- Mussilini had more than a million soliders in the army
- Allied powers won
- Important People
- Erwin Rommel-Germany, The Desert Fox, part of the Afrika core, later involved on the assign attempt to kill Hitler
- Bermard Montgomery- Monty, GB, British general id Africa
- George Patton- US, famous US General, fought in Africa
- Operation Torch
- The British-American invasion of French North Africa started on Nov. 8, 1942
- by mid 1943, we had defeated the Germans, Italians and the Vichy France
- Casablanca Conference- January 1942 "unconditional Surrender"
- If Germany surrendered they would have to do what we tell them to do
- Itlay
- soft under belly of Eurpoe-Churchill
- calling italy waek and defensless
- US wins African then goes to Sicley then Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
- Marshall
- cheif of staff of the US military during WWII-only person higher than his is the president
- in Washington D.C. and made military decision
- focused on teaching mechanized warfare
- mainly war teacher
- organized largest military staff in history
- Eisenhower
- led D-Day
- suppreme allied comander of all forces (GB, french, ect.)
- newt in charge after Marshall
- Patton
- best US general in the world
- led troops down in Africa
- MacArthur
- leader of US Army against Japan
- Nimitz
- leader of US Navy against Japan
- Bradley
- famous US general in Africa and later Europe
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- Allied invasion of nazi controlled France
- The assault was conducted in two phases
- an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian, and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight
- an amphibious landing of allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting at 6:30 am
- There were also decoy operations to distract the German forced for the real landing areas
- the operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history with over 160,000 troops
- 10,000 allied deaths -6,600 US
- The Atlantic Wall
- an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of Europe
- Built as a defense against and anticipated Allied invasionof the mainland continent from GB
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Ardenes Mountians, Belgium
- 5 months after d-day
- hitler's last offensive of the war
- December 1944- January 1945
- 19,000 troops died
- Allied won
- Allies vs. Germany
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
- bad health since 1940
- smoker, high blood pressure, long term heart diease, stroke
- April 2, 1945 died
- Hitler thought that Germany could still win when he heard that FDR died
- then commited suicide
- VP Truman- after death Truman took over
- said "the buck stops here"
- Mcarther
- wanted to use the atomic bomb on china
- Truman said he didn't want to start an atomic war with china
- Truman fired him because he didn't want him to go against him
- Truman was one of the least popular presidents
18. VE Day
- Victory in Europe day
- may 7th-8th 1945
- was over in Europe but not in Japan
- Nazis gave up
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Island Hopping
- tried to cut japan off form their supplies
- cut off the key islands of japan
- hopping over small islands and going to the amjor islands
- small don't mean as much as big
- small's supply lines would be cut off
Phillippenes
- US territory
- December 7, 1941
- MacArthur was a major leader
- Destroyed bridges and other things so that the Japs couldn't take over
- Bataan death march
- Americans and Fillipenos
- marched miles and a lot died
- 60 miles, 75,000 americans and Filipinos, 6,000-11,000 men died
- Japans officials faced serious concequences
Coral Sea
- May 1942
- off the coast of Australia
- japs attacked 2 us aircraft carriers
- not remembered as much
- US wins. first time japan didn't win
Midway
- June 1942
- Near Hawaii in Pacific
- Japan thought they could win
- US nazy was weak and so that waited it out
- Japan strategy was to pull US into a trap
- After battle japan was never the same again
- US wins
Guadalcanal
- August 7 1942- Feburary 9 1943
- operation watch tower
- Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
- The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic victory by allied forces over th japs
Iwo Jima
- Feb 19 1945
- operation detachment
- Jap troops were sitting on top of a volcano and then the US dropped the attomic bomb
- japs were like sitting ducks
- only lasted a month
- Once on beach they thought that they would be going into heavy fire but tthere wasnt
Okinawa
- April 1 1945-June 21 1945
- biggest war in pacific
- japs wanted to gain time cause the us was winnig
- japans kamikaze planes would do suicide missions by packing bombs into their planes then fly right into a ship
- was an honor to die
- did a lot of damage
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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