Blog discussion today.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act 1940
First peacetime draft in US History. Used until 1973 to fill military needs. After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
US homefront US made way more than other countries. Nurses, bus drivers, time keepers, teachers. every branch of the army had a woman branch. Womans army corps. Womens Navy typers and secretaries. WASP Women's Army Service Pilots.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Gave them worse jobs and let them go in first and their were more african americans that volunteered than whites.
4. Asian's role in WWII
Had to wear a button so people knew they were US citizens. Farmers and fought
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Made cartoons and movies to help war efforts and to have people donate money for the war efforts. Bob Hope famous comedian, sang, and danced and he would entertain the troops. The USO- United Service Organization none profit organization that entertains the troops.
6. Office of Price Administration
OPA first to discover a ration book. each family would get a ration book so they could spend what they needed not how much they wanted.
7. War Production Board
Government organization that encuraged people to produce as much as possible. mass production
8. National War Labor Board
Woodrow Wilson made it and kept peace between workers so they didn't go on strike.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
mass production and women worked in factories so more men could fight.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
depth charges and airplanes with destroyers, convoys
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Spies would go under cover to get info. from the enemy
Code name for intersepting enemy codes.
Huff Duff sonar and radar
Enigma- System Which Germany transferred their info. through codes.
Bombe helped decode things.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Germany tried to take over Stalingrad 90%, Moscow, and Leningrad seize in Germany. Lebensraum,didn't trust stalin, wanted oil fields. largest land warin history. they were split up between three cities so they as powerful. Germany was 12 miles away from Moscow.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
We entered the war in 1941. Reasons Oil resources, and see who would control Africa. Allied forces won.
Erwin Rommel the desert fox tried to kill Hitler and committed cuicide.
Bernard Montgomery- Monty- Great Britan
George Patton- United States, had ivory pistols. US General in Africa
Operation Torch- British- American incasion of French North Africa
Casablanca Conference- January 1942, unconditional surrender.
Churchill called Italy the soft under belly of Europe and said we should invade them.
Italy very mountainous
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George Marshall US chief of staff main guy except president of the United States.
Dwight Eisenhower- led D-Day, supreme allied comander in charge high in all allied forces army
General Douglas MacArthur- leader of US army of Japan
Patton- above
Admiral Chester Nimitz- leader of Navy against Japan
Omar Bradley- General in Africa for US
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944 allied forces invading Nazi controlled France, successfull, Airbourne assualt, British, American, Canadian and free French. amphibious attacks.
16. Battle of the Bulge
19,000 americans died, Hitlers last try at the war Largest and bloodiest battle of the war. December 1944 January 1945, we won,
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
Bad health
paralysis, high blood pressure, smoker, heart disease
died on April 2, 1945
Truman from Missour and he was very blunt, responsible for any mistakes, swore alot, said the buck stops here. final say for the atomic bomb dropping.
18. VE Day
May 8, 1945 victory in Europe.
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
island hopping is to cut Japanese islands off from comunications and suppies.
Coral sea May 1942 they damaged our ships. Japanese against US. Midway fighting of ships.June 1942 US won, philipines December 7, 1941 American POW's battaan death march. Japan apologized for killing 20,000 people of the death march.
Okinawa June 21, 1945, small south island of Japan, Japanese would use kamikaze planes, pack their plane with explosives and crashed into ships.
20. Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo language and they would send codes in Navajo language and Japanese couldn't break their language. Didn't get recognized until Bill Clinton gave congressional gold metals to them or their families.
21. Doolittle's Raid
General James Doolittle.First air attack on Japan on April 18, 1942. 16 planes that attacked Tokyo Japan. All the air crafts were destroyed and 11 of the 16 crew members died
22. Manhattan Project
project to make the atomic bomb. Albert Einstein and J Robert Oppenheimer. Groves General in charge. Trinity test bomb made the sand turn into glass.
23. Hiroshima bombing
August 6, 1945 little boy bomb, Paul Tibits dropped it 245, 000 people died from it. Enola Gay was the plane that was strong enough to haul the atomic bomb.
24. Nagasaki bombing
Fat Man August 9, 1945, Bockscar, 80,000 deaths, Chuck Sweany, missed target
25. VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day August 14, 1945. End of WWII
26. Yalta Conference
In Russia February US, GB, France, USSR
Stalin promised free elections in Europe
Stalin promised to go againt Japan after Germany was out of the war
Have a conferance at San Fransisco to set up the United Nations.
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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