1. Selective Training and Service Act
*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
*Rosie the river was to show that women need to step up and work in the factory
*What they did during WWII
-Worked in factories
-nurses
-Secrutaries
-Typed for the government
-Farm workers
-Waitress
-Taxi drivers
-Bus drivers
-Messengers
-Teachers
-Conducters
-Photographer
*WAC is the Woments Army Core
*Waves is the Womens Navy
*WASP is the Womens Army Service Pilots
-Test airplanes
3. African-American's role in WWII
*They fought in the military
*They had seperate combat units
*They worked as cargo handlers and cooks
*They had to be superfised by whites
*Black women could still work as nurses
*Tuskegee Airmen were most famous African American pilots in WWII, they flew in the Italian Campaign
4. Asian's role in WWII
*They had to wear buttons to show their race
*They were farmers and factory workers
*Still fought in the war
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
*They provided alot of commericals to get peole to support the war
*Movies were a huge impact as well
*Cary Grand was a big actor during the day
*Bob Hope and the USO Tour was aimed at entertaning soldiers
*USO is the United Service Organization used to entertain members of the military
*From 1941 to 1947 the USO presented more than 400,000 performances
*Bing Crosby sang to the troops
6. Office of Price Administration
*The OPA was the first to discover the idea of ration books
*There were red and blue points that were used as a stirct amount of money for familes
*Delt with rationing- Only can get so much
*Even if they could afford it, they could not buy anymore than the ration books told them
*Dont use the ration book once a person dies, you must return it
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
*Created by Woodrow Wilson in WWI
*Keep peace in factories and employees
*Employees need to work out problems
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
*Mass production of goods
*Use ration books and dont buy things from black market
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
*Planes would drop bombs on them
*The navy would use destoryers and death charges
*In 1943 it had all control and it was done in 1945
*U-boats are German Submarines
*Tried to develop faster ships to out run U-boats
*U-boats on top of the water are not as deadly as U-boats under water
*Trying to avoid them
*Traveling in large numbers- convoy system
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
*The white rabit was a spy that was captured
*Spying a huge thing
*Big part of the war
*Los Alamos was where we developed the atomic bomb
*We knew it was important to protect what we were doing and know what the enemy was doing
*Code names given to us intercepting German code
*We use Ultra and Magic to fight back to U-boats as well
*Enigma is the systen is which Germany transfereed their information through codes
*The Bombe was used to break the codes
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
*United States lost alot of people during this operation
*Why Hitler invaded Soviet Union
-He wanted to invade them to get resources
-Lebensraum
-Could use the people as slave labor
-He wanted Ukraine for farmland
-Western Front fighting was over(except Great Britian)
*The code name for the German Invasion of Sovie Union
*It was the biggest military invastion in world history
*90 percent of Stalingrad was ran by Germany
*June in 1940 was when it began
*Battle of Mascow
-October 1941- January 1942
-Hitler beleived Moscow was the major militay target
-German got 12 miles of Moscow before Soviet troops stopped
-HItler took control and made military decisions afterwords
-Hitler surrounded himself with staff officers with little or no recent combat experiences
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
*Africa
*Erwin Remmel-The Desert Fox
*Bernard Montgomery- British General
*George Patton- US General
*Patton and Montgomery did not like each other
*Operation Torch
-Biritsh American invasion of French North Africa started in 1942
*Italy
*Church hill called Italy the soft underbelly of Europe
*After they invaded Africa they went and invaded Sicily
*Italy surrendered
*In 1943 we invaded Sicily then Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
*Marshall
*Chief of staff
*He was a writer for the board department
*He was a teacher
*He organized the largest military staff in history
*Eisenhower
*Supreme allied commander of all forces
*In Charge of D-day invasion
*MacArthur
*Leader of US army againt Japan
*Nimitz
*Leader of the navy against Japan
*Bradley
*Famous General in WWII in Africa and Europe
*Patto
*General of US during WWII in Africa and Europe
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
*June 6, 1944
*Allied forces invaded France
*Very big military move
*Caught Germans off guard becasue we were already invading Italy
*Known as operation overload
*When they invaded Germany had all contorl of France
*D-Day had success
*British, American, Candain, and Free French were involved
*Atlantic Wall
*Sretched from France to Norway
*System of coastial fortifactions built by Nazi Germany between 1932 and 1944 aslotn coast of Europe
16. Battle of the Bulge
*Bloodest battle in history
*We won (The Allies)
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
*When he died Harry Truman took over
*Hitelrs Suicide
-He had his body burnded so Soviets wouldnt get it
-Hitler got marreid to Eva Braun
-Eva always commited suicide along with him
18. VE Day
*Events leading up to it were the Allies getting though the German defenses
*Came from the west
*May 8, 1945
*Victory in Europe day, Germany surrendered
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
*Island hopping was a over lapping line of the islands so they couldnt have suppplies given to Japan
*They didnt shut off all the islands, just the major ones
*Strategy used to invade Japan
*Coral Sea
-They damaged Lexinton and Yorkton
-We got back at them and sunk a ship back
-It was the first time Japan didnt win
-May 1942
*Midway
-Japan thought they could win becasue they put together a powerful force
-June 1942
-Plan of Japan was the lure them into a trap
-US won that
-Main turning point in the war
-Japan was never the same
*Philippines
-December 7, 1941 was attacked as well
-General McArthur was the US general in charge of the Philippines
-He vowed that "I shall return" which he did do
-One of the worst things that Japan did to us was the baton death march
-Baton Death March was 60 miles
-Murder and physcial abuse
-POW stands for Prisinor of War
-Japan wins
*Guadalcanal
*Code name is operation watch tower
*Took place on the island Guadalcanal
*Tried to get the Henderson air field to take control
*Fought between 1942 and 1943
*Iwo Jima
*Stareted on Feb. 19, 1945
*Called operation attachment
*6,821 deaths
*Okinawa
*Started on April 1945 and ended Juny 1945
*Island close to Japan
*Was the biggest war in the islands
20. Navajo Code Talkers
*Transladed different codes
*August 14 of 1982 "Navajo Code Talkers Day"
21. Doolittle's Raid
*Lead by General Doolittle
*Happened in 1942
*All the men and the crew were either hurt or killed
22. Manhattan Project
*Project used to build an attomic bomb
*The project used about 40 labortories and gave alot of people jobs
*General Leslie Groves was the general in charge of this project
*Oppenheimer was a man in charge as well with the project
*The test bomb was named fat boy
*The real bomb had success
23. Hiroshima bombing
*It was called the Little Boy
*Dropped by Paul Tibbits
*Got so bad that doctors took the ones who they thought would make it
*US tired forcing Japan to surrender
*Uraneum 235 was the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
*The T-shape bridge was their target, it didnt get destoryed
*Radiation sickness was a cause of death as well
24. Nagasaki bombing
*August 9, 1945
*The Bomb was called the Fat Man
*Casualties of Nagasaki was eighty thousand deaths
*Nagasaki was not going to be the main target
25. VJ Day
*Victory over Japan Day
*August 14, 1945
*Japan surrendered
26. Yalta Conference
*Held in Russia
*On Febuary 4-11 in 1945
*War time meeting
*Represented by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt
*Focused on the re establishing the war torn countries
*Germany was going to be split into 4 different zones
*They were going to have another confrence in San Fransico to set up the Untied Nations
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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