WWII powerpoint part 2 notes today!
US Homefront:
- It is what people are doing at home to help with the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- First peacetime draft in the US
- After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riveter
- Represented women workers in WWII
- Nursing was popular
- Farm workers, typist, waitresses, time keepers, messengers, teachers, bus/taxi drivers, factory workers.
- They did other jobs but did not actually fight in war,
- WAC=Womens army corps
- WAVES=Womens navy
- WASP=Womes army service pilots- transported planes from place to place.
- Tokyo Rose...
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Worked in factories
- Guys fought
- Alot of bombing
- fighting on frontlines
- they were being discriminated against
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Basically the same kinda stuff as African Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Hollywood made propaganda for war
- Entertained troops
- Made advertisements for war
- The purple heart is an example
- Cary Grant was an actor
- Casablanca is a movie they made for WWII back in the day.
- John Wayne. STUDDD!!!!! love him!
- Kilroy was here
6. Office of Price Administration
- Set up in 1941 to set up rations and pricing items.
- 8000 rationing boards were created to volunteer.
- food rationing included restrictions on sugar, meat; clothing, restricted silk and nylon
- Gasoline rations began May 1942 limiting to 4 gallons of gas per week.
- There were stickers for gas things
- T sticker=truckers for unlimited amounts
- C sticker-doctors for important jobs
- B sticker=for others.
- Black market developed in stolen or fake stickers that were used in 30% gas sales..
- by 1945 32,500 motorists were arrested for using these stickers and 4000 gas stations were closed for taking part in this.
- People had to stand in lines for sugar because they were allowed only limited amounts
- Horse meat was not rationed.
7. War Production Board
- They made alot of stuff as quickly as they could
8. National War Labor Board
- Wanted everyone to work together.
- It was trying to get people to stop going on strike
- workers, owners, ect working together to get jobs done.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- faster ships and being able to flow through them faster
- intercept German code
- Travel in numbers
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Spying
- intercepting codes
- Radar and detecting things above the surface
- HF/DF used to locate the sources of the enemy radio transmissions such as submarines (#10)
- ULTRA and MAGIC were like code names for Very intelligent.
- They would begin sharing code-breaking secrets using ultra and magic
- Enigma was what germans used to send out their information
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Lebensraum
- Wanted Ukraine for the Farmland
- They could use their people as slave labor
- the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
- Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains
- The western front fighting was fighting over
- June 22 1941 Barborossa
- The main front expanded 149 miles to a depth over 600 miles
- In the soviet union marched the best of German Army amounting to three quarters of its field
- Germans occupied some 900000 square miles in the Soviet Territory by the end of war
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-
Marshall, Chief of staff of the US military during WWII
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
29. Why did allied powers win WWII?
- Henry Kaiser was a ship builder helping to improve the war and army ect.
**Battle of Atlantic
- Build faster more efficiant ships
- To make water traffic more flowy
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