US Homefront:1. Selective Training and Service Act■what is a home front?◦what your doing in your home■Selective servace and training act 1940■this is basically a draft■first peace time draft in us history used intill 1973■after 73 military relied on volenteers2. Women's role in WWII■ women were conserned with losing there feminine image■rosie the riviter potrayed that women could work■women also nursed men back to health■they taught■did laundry■women were vital in the war■waves in women in the navy■wasp is women version in the airfforce3. African-American's role in WWII■ broke through the racial barrier■they made things and fought on the front lines■they did all while being descriminated against4. Asian's role in WWII■ same as women and blacks5. Hollywood's role in WWII■ hollywood made propiganda films■to buy war bonds and they sent people over seas to entertain troopsbob hope toured and intertained in alot of warskilroy was here helped the us with propraganda6. Office of Price AdministrationOPA was set up in 1941 to deal with rationing of goods and price controls. Food rationing included restrictions on on sugar and meat. Gasoline was rationed to 5 gallons a week. Cars had certain stickers so people would know how many gallons each car could get. With rationing came lines people had to be patient they had to wait because they was such a limited amount of food.7. War Production BoardWhen the government comes together they join together to get the job done.8. National War Labor Board9. Why the Homefront helped win the warThey were responsible for making the war look positive and for making goods. Everyone played a huge part in the war.10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boatsThe Battle for the Atlantic was can we get Great Britian supplies before Germanyt sinks all our ships. Speed was important can we out run them. U-Boats were submarines. Germany people in france would send messages to the U-Boats. If we intersepted them we could tell where U-boats would be so we could miss them. The convo system is where you would travel in large groups. Supply ships were in the middle and the huge warships surrounded them. Germany would travel in huge u-boats packs. UF/DF could detec t U-Boats.Hunter-Killers were ships designed to go after U-Boats. Depth Charges were bombs that went under water and would sink the uboats.Hunter-Killers were also airplanes made to go after uboats11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/MagicIntersepting Germany and Japan codes and desifering them. We knew what the enemy was doing. Radar could detect things above the surface. Hf/Df could detect things under the water. ULTRA"MAGIC"- code name for intersepting codes and breaking them. ultra was Germany codes and Magic was Japan. it was known as very special intelligence.Enigma was the system in which Germany transferred their info. through codes. Solving the Enigma system remains one of the great Allied triumphs of World War II.Durign periods when allied cryptanalysts were unable to solve Ednima u-boats caused great demage to Anglo-American commerce.Bombe was the machine that desifered the codes.12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)Finland became an axis power.Hilter invaded the USSR because of lebensraum. Despised the ethnic slavs ruled their jewish bolshevik masters. wanted ukraine for the farmland. could use the people for slave labor. the defeat pof the uSSr would further isolate the Allies. Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains. Didnt trust Stalin-Germany propaganda showed the stalin was planning to attack Germany. The Western Front fighting was over (except Great Britian).Operation Barborossa-the greatest land war in recorded history summer of 1941 at 330am. June 22. the main front eventually expanded to 1490 miles and extend to a depth of over 600 miles. in the soviet union marched the best of german army(4.5 million) amounting to 3 quarter of its feild strength. by the end of the year 3,500,00 red army soldiers were in captivity and 4,000,000.German Wehrmacht-German army in USSR was split1 army group north whose main goal was LEningrad2 main goal moscow centre3 south stalingrad- caucasus oil field.battle of stalingrad was where stalin said dont retreat or we will shoot you. Soviets are starting to push the germans back. this invasion took over 2 years. the winter hurt the Germans.13. Battle in Africa and Italy14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradleymarshall■he had a desk job and was the head of the us military15. D-Day-Operation Overlord16. Battle of the Bulge17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over18. VE Day19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,20. Navajo Code Talkers21. Doolittle's Raid22. Manhattan Project23. Hiroshima bombing24. Nagasaki bombing25. VJ Day26. Yalta Conference27. Nuremburg Trials28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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