Monday, April 2nd

[6Jordan!]

1. Selective Training and Service Act

• allowed people at age 18 to draft for the war
• First peacetime draft in US History
• Used until 1973 to fill miltary needs
• After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs

 

2. Women's role in WWII

• Factory work back home
• Nurses
• Rosie the Riveter
• • Represented women workers in WW2
• Sales ladies, bus drivers, farmers, messengers, conductors
• WASP- Womens Army Service Pilots

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

• Not seen as equal
• Not able to fight in the front line
• Cooks, janitors,
• Tuskegee Airmen

 

4. Asian's role in WWII

•  Forced from their homes
• volunteered to serve for the US
• They had to wear tags to let people know that they were Japanese- American solider
• They also helped in factories back home

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

• Bob Hope and Looney Tones
• Kept the troops entertained

 

6. Office of Price Administration

• Adminstration set up by FDR-
• Rationing on products like food, gas-- it said never spend money until it was been ration
• 1941 to adminster price controls 

7. War Production Board

• Keep up with the production of goods for WW2

 

8. National War Labor Board

• To keep employers and employees from agruing so the employees wouldnt go on strike

 

9. Why the Homefront helped win the war

• women helped a lot back homes in factories
• Holloywood, by helping keeping the war positive

 

10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats

• U-Boats- submarines
• Adding new weapons and make ships at a quicker rate
• Changed our naval code so germany wouldnt know where we were
• Built faster ships
• Convoy System-
• We used radar, HF/Df ( locate enemies under the surface).,

 

11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic

•  Behind the scenes
• Broke their codes
• Ultra was the name for the British
• Magic was done by the United States
• A big reason we won the won

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)

• Largest military operation in WW2
• Germany invasion of Soviet Union
• The russian army killed 64000 resistants
• Lebensraum
• Despired the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters
• Wanted Ukraine for the farmland
• Could use the people as slave labor
• the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
• Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains
• Didnt trust Stalin- German progaganda showed that Stalin was planning to atttak Germany
• The Western Front fighting was over
• Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad

 

13. Battle in Africa and Italy

•  Erwin Rommel- The Desert Fox
• Operation Torch-
• Tanks
• ITALY- Allies won the battle of Sicily
• Allies wanted Rome next on july 4th, 1944

14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley

 Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US military during WW2\

• noble peace prize
• Makes a lot of the big decisions

Eisenhower

• Supreme member of the Allie troops
• Famous for the D-Day invasion

Patton

• Very big of ordealness and organization
• famous US general
• Fought it Europe and Africa

MacAruther

• Pacific theater is WW2
• chief of staff\
• Charge of the army against Japan

Nimitz

• Got accepted into the Navy
• Head of the navy against Japan

Bradley

• Fought in Africa and fought against the Germans
• Famous general for US who fought againt Africa and Germans

15. D-Day-Operation Overlord-- June 6, 1944

• Operation overlord
• Allied Invasion of the nazis controlled France
• The assault was conducted in two phases
• 1. Airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian, and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight
• 2. an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting aat 6:30 AM
• There was also decoy operations to distract the German forces from the real landing area

16. Battle of the Bulge

• Largest and costless battle for the US
• in Belguim
• Gain control over a river
• Coldest and snowest winter ever
• German created a bulge on the front line

 

17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over

• Dies a couple months after the War in Europe

18. VE Day (May 8, 1945)

• victory in europe day
• When axis powers surrendered 

19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,

• Island Hopping- taking over islands when they were getting closer and closer to Japan
• Philippines- December 7, 1941 (Japan)
• Bataan Death March- May, 1942 Americans and the Filipinos

Battle of the Coral Sea

• The Battle of the Coral Sea May 4-8 1942
• It was a major naval battle between the Japanese Navy and Allie naval and air forces from the United States and Australia
• While Japan sank more ships then the Allies did

Midway

• 6 months after Pearl Harbor
• The most important naval battle against Japan
• We knew their naval code (magic)
• Firtst true Victory
• Japan's Navy suffered heavy losses and never recovered from this battle

Guadalcanal

• Battle of both air and sea
• August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 in the Solomon Island Archipelago
• Victory by Allied Forces over japan

Iwo Jima

• They could see us but we couldnt see them
• Bloody battle lots of deaths

Okinawa

20. Navajo Code Talkers

• Worked in Pacific front
• Code talkers received no recognition until declassification of the operation in 1968

 21. Doolittle's Raid

• When the americans bombed japan after pearl harbor
• everyone crashed and landed in chinA

22. Manhattan Project

• General leslie Groves
• The first made atomic bomb and made in manhattan, new york
• J Robert Oppenheimer was a communist and a smart man!
• Trinity was the code named for the attempt of the atomic bomb

 

23. Hiroshima bombing

• there target was the T-shaped bridge
• a lot of people were killed and injured
• radiation sickness

 

24. Nagasaki bombing

•  August 9th
• Bombing after Hiroshima
• a mile of destruction
• 40,000-70,000 people died right away

25. VJ Day

•  August 14,1945
• Japan surrended which ended WW2

26. Yalta Conference

• Stalin, Churchill, and FDR attended the conference
• Germany would be broken into four occupations 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 get up the United Nations

 

27. Nuremburg Trials

 

28. Japanese Internment Camps in US

29. Why we won the war?

• Because of the Navajo code and magic

30. GI Bills of Right

• helped  them go back to a regular life style and help them get jobs, college, jobs