1. Selective Training and Service Act
peacetime draft
used till 1973
after 73 military depended on volunteers
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter
Women in the work force
Factories
Nurses
couldnt win without them
Farmers and a lot of others
women's division
3. African-American's role in WWII
1/2 million served in britan... werent allowed on front lines..
fought valiantly
4. Asian's role in WWII
werent drafted but volunteered
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
big stars enlisted
propoganda
heritage
USO
Bob Hope
Judy Garland
Marx Brothers
Lucille Ball
Pin-Up Girls
WWII made During WWII
6. Office of Price Administration
they maintained prices of household products
limited how much people could buy
stamps
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7. War Production Board
regulates production of american supplies
rationed things
expand and change businesses to meet wartime needs
8. National War Labor Board
more rights for workers
8 hour days
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
produced lots of goods
Women
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
subs
Convoy system
germans singled out merchant ships
british changed codes
Radar
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Magic - Code Decipher
translation
YaY
Ultra Was British Decipher
False info
Espionage
HF/DF
Eigma - Transmit German Messages
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Summer 1941
Hitler Got Bored
Lebensraum
Slave Labor
Farmland
oil Feilds
Paranoid
western front was over
millions dead
U.S. never invaded
Hitler took over military
Cannablism
Death, Death, and more Death
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Morocco
Erwin Rommel
Casablanca Conference
Shoved to the Side
Britain U.S. Canada
Italy surrendered
Became our ally
Italy is forgotten
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Chief of staff of the U.S. Military
Eisenhower - Supreme ally commander of all alled forces in WW2
Patton - Africa died in car accident
MacArthur- head of army against japan
Nemitz - Navy
Bradley- Africa
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944
Stockpiling
Months of prep
France
Bad weather in the morning
misinformation
tricks
6:30 when people started landing
Omaha Beach
Amphibious
Lots of Death
and More Death
Atlantic Wall
Delayed
pics
planning pays off
Canadia Rules.... i purposely misspelled canada... Canadia sounds More epic
16. Battle of the Bulge
malmedy massacre
More costly than D-Day(Death wise)
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
Brain hemmorage
Hitler suicides withhis wife
Poison aand shot himself
18. VE Day
May 8 1945
Victory in europe
still fighting japan
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Taking over islands that surround Japanese stuff
time saver
life saver
Working our way to japan
Christianity is false... all religion is false...
Philipines
December 7, 1941
Philipines attacked
Macarthur
Australia
POWs
Bataan Death March
islands
Kamikaze
Bombarding
MacArthur returned to philipines
Coral seas- first loss for the Japan
Aircraft Carriers
Midway
Big U.S. Victory
Revenge For Pearl Harbor
Hiru
Guadecanal
Jungle terrain
Iwo Jima
Beautiful Island
35 days
Learning... learning
Flag Raising
Okinawa
Battles and stuff
20. Navajo Code Talkers
Unique language
Worked really well
Navajos couldnt even decode it
Didnt Know What we were doing
declassified 1968
Medals
21. Doolittle's Raid
bombed tokyo
ridiculous
james doolittle
confusion
morale boost
crashed in china
color pictures
22. Manhattan Project
July
atomic bomb
Albert Einstein urged Roosevelt to begin research on atomic bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer - Communist
Groves
Alamogordo, New Mexico - Tested atomic bomb
Trinity
Uranium or plutonium
Dissintegrated
Enola Gay
Paul Tibbits
hiroshima
Camera plane
Massive destruction
Rubble and dead bodies
atomic shadow
badly burned
i'd rather be dissintegrated
Cancer
Radiation sickness
Harry Truman
Saving lots of life
Kill a few to save many
Now used as defensive weapon
Better picture
couldnt see target
Super heavy
much less damage.. even though it was more powerful
23. Hiroshima bombing
august 6
24. Nagasaki bombing
august 9
25. VJ Day
august 14
victory in japan
26. Yalta Conference
split germany
Stalin
U.N.
27. Nuremburg Trials
Nuremburg Germany
Suicide
Hitler was an Insane Genius
Fear and intimidationHerman Goering
GI bill of Rights
Help Former troops get back on their feet
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
suspicious of Japanese-amricans
Racism
"relocation" centers
School
Entertainment
Forced
No killing
Paid for jobs
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