Selective Training and Service Act 1940
- first peacetime draft in us history (we were not at war)
- used until 1973 to fill military needs
- After 1973 US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
- basically forcing people to join the military
Women in WWII
- women can help the war by working in the factories
- Rosie The Riveter- represented women workers in WWII
- they could do a lot more than working in the home
- women also were nurses to soldiers
- Waitresses, time keepers, elevator operators, teachers...
- every branch in the gov, had a section for women
- WAVES- womens navy
- WASP- womens army service pilots
- African American women also worked in factories
African- Americans In WWII
- half a million served in europe
- not allowed white soldiers
USO- United Service Organizations
- provided entertainment for the soldiers in the war
- presented performances all over the world to troops
4. Asian's role in WWII
- mos voluneteered
-had to wear badges
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-my own blog
6. Office of Price Administration
-goals to puts limits on prices
-rationing- only having a certain amount if things (gas, food, clothing)
-black market for things
-opa points
7. War Production Board
-changed normal business into places that would produce things for the war.
-started after japan attacked pearl harbor
8. National War Labor Board
-started in ww1
-regulated the business so that the businesses didnt have strikes and go against each other during the war.
-so people kept working
-regulated the transportation
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-they produced more products efficient
-women took over the mens jobs and in the factories
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-speed kills (faster ships)
-Huf-duf/ radio we could figure out where the German boats were. (underwater radar)
-Convoy system – travel in large numbers, Engima
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-german invasion of Soviet Union by blitzkrieg
Why-
-lebensruam
-despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their jewish Bolshevik master
-the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
-Hitler didnt trust Stalin
-Soviet Won in Germany
Germany took over or attacked these main cities:
-Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow
Siege of Leningrad
-siege- blockade of a city and bombarding it
-872 days without much food, medical aid
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Invasion- called Operation Torch
-British-American invasion of French North Africa
- by mid 1943 we had defeated the germans, italians, and the Vichy France
-Hitler wanted us to invade France
-We invade Morroco
-OPeration Avalache
-They invaded Sicily
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Marshall-Cheif of Staff of the US Military during WW2
Eisenhower- Supreme allied commander of allied forces in WW2. Dwight famous general during ww2 moved up during the war, leader for the battle of the bulge, later went up to president.
Patton- Major US general in WW2 and fought in Africa and Europe
MacArthur- US general against Japan
Nimitz- Adirmal in the Navy, Chief of Navigation, head of the Navy against Japan,
Bradley-Famous US ganeral in WW2 and fought in Africa and involved after the D-Day invason.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-US and Britain invaded France at Normandy
-absent this day
16. Battle of the Bulge
-Dec. 16, 1941
-weather was terrible
-over a million men took place
-Malmedy Massacre- American soldiers were captured and murdered
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-FDR in 1945, because he had brain problems/ stroke
-truman was in charge of the automatic bomb dropping
-had to deal a lot with the post war recovery
-dealt with womens racism
-re-elected beat thomas E Duy
-when he left offices he was one of the most unliked presidents during the time
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- capturing the bigger islands jumping for island to island. American strategy for taking over the Japanese Islands, saving time, lives and money.
Philippines-Dec. 7, 1941
-bataan death march- worst atrocity against the US troops. forces soliders to walk 60 miles to one camp to another.
-MacArthur
Coral Sea-mahor naval battle between the Japanese Navy and allied naval and air forces.
-first time we stopped Japan with a stalemate
Midway- after pearil harbor, one of the first battles that we actually one
-3 days
-tooks place at Midway, midway between us and Japan but close to Japan
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Guadalcanal- was fought in the solomon Island Archipelago
-strategic victory by the Allied Forces over the Japanese in the Pacific Theater
Kamikasies- Japanese suicide bombers
Iwo Jima-where Pearil harbor took place. when Japan Invaded it. Then we invaded it.
Okinawa-
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-navajo indians that translated info in between the camps/stations
-they werent given much recognition
21. Doolittle's Raid
-they had to strip the air bombers
-our mission to bomb Tokeyo after Pearil Habor
22. Manhattan Project
-a secret military project to produce the first US nuclear bombs,
-fears that the Japanese would creat a Nuclear weapon to use against us.
-the first plan for the automic bomb
-Trinity the code name or our first run of a automic bomb
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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