US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act 2.
Women's role in WWII They made bullets and a buunch of materials and didnt fight and they were nurses.
3. African-American's role in WWII
They registered for war they were segregated They werent able to fight in the front lines.
4. Asian's role in WWII After Peral harbor they were forced from homes American Japs served for us and they had to wear tags.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII Bob hope would entertain the troops Looney toons did a lot of propanganda
6. Office of Price Administration Watched to make sure they bought the right food and that they should conserve gasand everything.
7. War Production Board made sure they kept up with the wars needs with the production
8. National War Labor Board Stop arguments between employees and employers
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war Women making bullets and stuff and we made so many war goods.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats we made ships really fast and we changed our naval code and we knew what they were doing
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic we figured out there inscription system we knew all these codes we called hat they called ultra magic.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany) the largest military battle in world history germany invading russia
13. Battle in Africa and Italy Operation torch was wanting to get control of morraco and then tinnisisa
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord june 6 1944 it was our beach invasion of nazi controlled france
16. Battle of the Bulge THe largest and costlies battle the US took part in. Germany last offensive in western front.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day was the day the axis powers surrneder and the allies celebrated.
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. THey would go from island to island taking them over on the way to japan.
20. Navajo Code Talkers were navajo indians that would decript codes.
21. Doolittle's Raid it was too raise moral against japan
22. Manhattan Project it was the making of the atomic bomb made in manhatten new york
23. Hiroshima bombing the first place they used the atomic bomb killed 80,000 people 90 percent of town
24. Nagasaki bombing after hiroshima they werent planning on hitting this 13 seconds after the all clear the bomb hit.
25. VJ Day victory in Japan day august 14 ending WW2
26. Yalta Conference how germany was going to be demilitarized and they woud split them up germany had to take blame for the war
27. Nuremburg Trials The war crimes trials that germany had to go through people were killed and inprisoned for this
28. Japanese Internment Camps
29. GI bill of rights was helping thw soldiers get jobs and homes and stuff
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