march 31, 2011

germany was sinking about 1000 ships a year

controlling the seas/ trying to keep things getting to great britan

another way we fought back to the U boats was Convoy system...it made sure that great britan got goods...

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 

2. Women's role in WWII

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

 

4. Asian's role in WWII

 

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

 

6. Office of Price Administration

 

7. War Production Board

 

8. National War Labor Board

 

9. Why the Homefront helped win the war

 

10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats

 convoy system..there would be a convoy of boats that would make sure that great britan got the goods..Depth charges..were underground bombs that would fight u. boats...

11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic

 we knew that they were coming and what they were doing...big reason we won ww2..they didnt know what we were doing......Enigma system in which Germany transfured their information through codes..solving the enigma machine remains one of the great allied triumphs...another reason thet we won..bombe was what decifered it

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)

 hitler went against all his army people...he didnt trus stallin..summer 1941..3500000 red army soldiers were in captivity and 4000000 had died in battle

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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