1. Selective Training and Service Act
- Instituted the draft!
- First peacetime draft in US History
- Used till 1973
2. Women's role in WWII
- (Rosie the Riveter)
- Nursing
- Working in factories
- Typists, waitresses, bus drivers, etc
- Women's Navy / WASP (test planes)
- "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri (taunted troops)
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Not seen as equals yet
- Many were in the war but were segregated
- Weren't allowed on the front line (thought couldn't handle it) at first
- Used as janitors, etc first
- Tusegee Airman proved they could fly
- If didn't fight, worked in factories / farmed
4. Asian's role in WWII
- After Pearl Harbor, they were forced to leave their homes
- Many of them volunteered to serve in the war to prove their loyalty
- Had to wear tags so they knew they were Japanese Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Bob Hope - entertained the troops (comedian)
- Looney Tunes!
- USO
- Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney, The Rockettes
6. Office of Price Administration
- Set up by FDR
- Before involved in WW2
- Set up how much the ration coupon books were supposed to allow people to buy
- No toys because they weren't allowed steel
- No silk or nylon
- Gas rationed
- 4 gallons of gas per week
7. War Production Board
- Kept up with supplies for WW2
- Made sure we made as much as we could!
8. National War Labor Board
- Help stop fights / arguing between companies
9. How the US Homefront helped win the war
- Women stepped up; war production
- Hollywood; kept troops entertained (kept war positive - propaganda)
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- Able to make a lot of ships
- Changed our Navy Code so couldn't determine where we were
- We sunk a bunch of their U-boats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- (Spying)
- Ultra/Magic - Broke their codes so knew where they were going; what they were going to do!
- Ultra (Secret) -- German code (BY BRITAIN)
- Magic -- Japanese code (BY US)
- Speed
- Convoy System - power in numbers
- Huff Duff - radio below surface
- Radar
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Ordered him to cut off production
- GERMAN INVADED RUSSIA
- Lebenraum (living space in Russia for German people)
- Wanted for farmland
- Could use the people as slave labor
- Isolate the Allies
- Hitler was getting bored..
- German Army in USSR was split:
- 1. Army Group North whose main goal was Leningrad
- -it's a siege, not invade
- 2. Army Group Center whose main goal was Moscow - key city - made hitler mad
- -he took over and made military decisions, german officers started to go against hitler
- 3. Army Group South Salingrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Africa:
- Started on May 11th
- Invasion of Marraco
- German General: Erwin Rommel - turned on Hitler; committed suicide
- Benard Montgomery: British General
Italy:
- US & Canada invaded Cicily
- Allies wanted to move into main Italy - 1943
- Wanted to get city of Naples
- Allies won
- Rome next - 1944 got control
- Florence
- August 25th got through Gothic Line
14. US Generals-
Marshall:
- Organizer to victories, given Noble Peace Award
- US General
- Chief Staff of Military
Eisenhower:
- D-Day Invasion
- US General
- Supreme Commander of Allied Forces
Patton:
- Officer
- Famous US General - Fought in Africa and then later in Europe
MacArthur:
- Chief of Staff in Army
Nimitz:
Bradley:
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- Code for Battle of Normandy
- June 6th, 1944
- Postponed to that day; June 5th before because weather
- Took place in France - Allie Invasion of Nazi Controlled
- 2 Part Process
- 1. An Airborne Assault
- Landing of Allied Infantry and Armored Divisions on the coast of France
- Decoy Operations - distract German forces
- 10,000 Casualties
- Atlantic Wall - systems of costal fortifications built by Germans
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Largest and Costliest for US
- Germany's last offensive in Western Front
- Succecessful at first - caught by surprise
- In Belgium
- Caused a lot of confusion for the new troops
- Snowiest / Coldest winter
- Germans created a Bulge in the Front Line
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
20. Navajo Code Talkers
- Made code using their Navajo language
- No one else knew it (Japanese, etc couldn't study it because nothing on it!)
21. Doolittle's Raid
- Bombing on Japan
- Wasn't to destroy but to show that we can fight back
- The US didn't have any of their planes come back
- A lot of military guys that it was a waste of time -- suicide mission for pilots
22. Manhattan Project
- Used bombs on Hiroshima
- Code name for making atomic bomb
- Killed 90% of the town
23. Hiroshima bombing
- Radiation - Cancer
- Figured millions of Americans would have died
24. Nagasaki bombing
- Not intended to be 2nd at first
- Couldn't hit the necessary area because of clouds
- Japanese were told everything was fine right before
- Plantonian
- Little bit less of damage
- Everything went wrong (clouds, contained by mountains, ran out of gas,
25. VJ Day
- August 14th, 1945 - Japan surrendered this ending WW2
26. Yalta Conference
- Talk about post war Europe
- Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
- Germany was going to be de-militarized
- Germany broken into 4 occupation zones - US, GB, France, USSR
- Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over
- Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United Nations
27. Nuremburg Trials
- War trials after
- (Came out about the killings that went on and having to deal with it after)
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
29. Why did the Allies win WWII?
- We broke their code and they couldn't break ours!
30. GI Bills of Rights
- Transition soliders back into regular life after fighting overseas
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