US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- Passed in 1940
- First peacetime draft in US history
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riviter- women labor poster
- Worked in factories
- Proformed men jobs
- Made war materials
- Red Cross, nurses, and other military organisations
- Test airplanes- WASP- but didn't fight or drop bombs
- Secrataries for the govn't and war effforts
- Farm Workers
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Segrigaated but faught in war
- Red Tails- great pilots and fighters
- Work at farms and factories
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Faught- war badges to show they were not from Japan
- Were translaters
- Worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Made videos that illistrated hate to Germany
- Bob Hope- born in Brittan- great American commidian, writer, and worked with troops UnitedServiceOrganisation
- Entertained troops and homefront
- Propoganda
- News Reels
6. Office of Price Administration
- Rationing- to limit food for families.
- Kept prices low.
- Limited Gas- stickers
- Black Market
7. War Production Board
- Started by FDR
- Produce war materials- ammo
- Women made things for the war
- Made factories produce as much as possible
- Peace time efforts to war time efforts
8. National War Labor Board
- Started in WWI
- Workers when unhappy go on stike
- We needed production
- Save efforts of labor untill after war
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- Supplies and Food
- Rationalizing
- Women
- Propaganda
- Positive
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- Sunk thousand of allie ships
- Speed- faster ships
- Use of Ultra
- HF/DF- under water radar
- Convoy System
- Anigma was the tool used by germans
- Bombe- computer that decoded
- Hunter Killers and Dept Charges
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Ultra- Brittish name to decode German's messaging code
- Knew what Germans were going and doing beacuse we desyphore the codes
- Criptlanilists- people who desyphere the code
- Magic- Allie forces that the US desyphere Japan codes
- People also spied
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Hitler's biggest mistake
- Biggest invasion in history
- Millions of men died
- Blitzkrieg
- Why?
- Hitler wanted reasorces and a place for the over flow of Germans- Lebensraum
- Dispised because of Slavs and communists
- Farmland and Oil
- If they could pull it off, US couldn't afford to get in the war.
- Didn't trust Stalin
- Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow
- Siege of Leningrad- bombard and surround city
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Tanks and Panzers
- First area where we started fighting
- Erwin Rommel- the Desert Fox
- Out witted US- didnt like Hitler
- Bernard Montgomery- Monty
- British general
- George Patton- US general- allies but not friends with Montgumery
- Operation Torch- invading North Africa and Italy
- 1943- defeated N. Africa
- Moved up to the Italy
- Late summer of 43- Sicily
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
- George C. Marshall- guy at DC making decisions.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- IKE- Supreme Allied Comandar in Europe. D-Day and battle of the bulge
- George Patton- Africa against Rommel. Moved up to Europe
- Douglas MacArthur- Head of Army for Japan
- Chester Nimitz- Navy general. Head of Navy of Japan
- Omar Bradley- Africa and D Day
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- Operation Overlord
- June 6, 1944
- Allie invasion of Nazi controlled France
- Stages
- 1- airborn assault landing of 24,000 airborn troops after midnight
- 2- an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armed divisions on the coasr of France starting at 6:30
- Decoy operation operations to distract the German forces
- 10,000 causalties
- Atlantic Wall- Nazi Germany build between 1942-44
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Belguim
- Hitler's last attempt to defeat Allies front line
- Panzers
- Worse battle for the US in WWII
- Massive German Offenceive
- Worse than D Day
- Malmedy Massacre
- German lost a lot of oil
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
- FDR died right before Hitler commited suicide
- Died of ceribral brain stroke. Blood flow stoped to some rooms
- Truman was responible of the atomic bombs at Japan
- Working with ending racisum
- 2nd term upset
- Very unpopular in 2nd term
- Fired MacArther
18. VE Day
- May 8, 1945.
- Famous kiss
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
- Island Hopping- Couldn't take contol of all of the islands
- Attack and control bigger more important islands
- Skip over some smaller ones
- Saves time, money, and lives
- Smaller islands would forfit or retreat
- Phillippines- Dec 7, 1941
- Japanese attacked the Phillipines same day as Pearl Harbor
- Phillipines Bataan Death March- US treated baddly by Japan
- 60 mile tranfe of 75,000 American and Flip to a POW camp
- Coral Sea-
- May 4-8, 2012
- Stale mate- US victory
- Aircrafts
- Midway
- June 4-7, 1942
- Midpiont between Hawaii and Japan
- US won- important
- Needed to win so we were closer to Japan
- Guadalcanal
- Offencive war by USA
- We won- never looked back- stayed offensive
- Iwo Jima
- Like a D-Day attack
- Mount Seribatii
- Anphibios attack
- More costly than D Day
- Okinawa
- Close to Japan
- Could plan for invasion
20. Navajo Code Talkers
- Never written down
- Used normal Navajo people
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21. Doolittle's Raid
- Bombed Tokio Japan
- Mission to bomb Tokio 5 months after Pearl Harbor
- Confuse Japanese people
- Lightend bombers to fly of air craft carriers
22. Manhattan Project
- Code name for building atomic bombs
- J Robert Oppenheimer- communist
- New Mexico
- Trinity- code name for the first bomb droped.
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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