Blog discussion today. No assigned blog for this week!!
Notes:
US Homefront:
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
- they would help make weapons and things for the war to send off to the troops
- grew and canned their own food
- took over many other jobs
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought in the military
- the blacks civil rights leaders made seperate units
- worked as cargo handlers and cooks
4. Asian's role in WWII
- fought in the war
- worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- made movies and shows to try and get people to join the war
- entertained the troops
- cartoons were full of propaganda
- made the enemy look bad
6. Office of Price Administration
- was the first to discover ration books
7. War Production Board
- produced a lot of materials
- used to stabalize our economy
8. National War Labor Board
- created in WWI
- used to keep peace between workers in the factories
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- got people interested in the war
- kept victory gardens
- wouldnt talk to anyone about the war because they could be a spy
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- mostly fought with planes
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- mostly spy stuff
- had to bring in enemy information
- the lusy spy ring was an anti nazi organization
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- was the code name for germanys invasion of the soviet union
- soviets were not prepared for it
- operation failed
- goal was to take over 3 major cities
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- the campains fought between the allies and major powers
- was also called the north african campaign
- fought for two reasons
- to control the middle east and to keep control of natural resources
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Eisenhower
- was in charge of the D-Day invasion
Patton
- was a US general durring WWII in africa and europe
MacArthur
- was the leader of the US army against japan
Nimitz
- was the leader of the US navy against japan
Bradley
- another famous general in africa and later on europe
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- June 6th 1944
- allies invaded france
- 160,000 allies that crossed
- caught the germans off guard because since they were already invading italy that they would come in from the south
- 6,000 ships, 5,000 fighter planes
16. Battle of the Bulge
- took place at the end of the war
- around the ardenous mountains
- named the largest and bloodiest battle of WWII
- the germans were attacking the allied forces
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
- was a smoker and had heart problems
- was the president at the time so it added pressure
- roosevelt was replaced with truman when he died
- truman left office as the least popular president of all time
18. VE Day
- May 8th 1945
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Midway
- took place in 1942
- america wasnt ready and were weak
- they knew it was coming and just had to wait to ambush them
- they lost a lot of equipment and couldnt keep up with the factories in the US
Iwo Jima
- was a volcanic island chain
- february 18 1945
- was one of the last big battles
- was an invasion on the sea
Okinawa
- started on april 1st of 1945
- was the biggest war in the pacific islands
- started a suicide mission crashing into other planes
- they would pack their plane with explosives and crash into ships
20. Navajo Code Talkers
- nobody could figure out the code
- didnt recive recognition until 1968
- gold medals were presented to the families of the 24 code talkers no longer living
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
- people heard about hitlers plan to create a nuclear bomb
- gave 200,000 jobs to people and most people didnt know what they were doing
- few people knew what the final project was going to be
- some of the most important scientists worked on it durring that time
23. Hiroshima bombing
- was on augest 6th 1945
- the bomb was called the little man
- dropped by paul tibits
- killed 245 residents
- left the severly injured to die or miraculously stayed alive
24. Nagasaki bombing
- had one of the larges sea ports
- bomb was called the fat man
- 80,000 deaths including prisoners of war
- they thought the fat man would put them down
25. VJ Day
- augest 14th 1945
- japan surrendered thus ending the war
- on spetember 2nd was the signing of the surrender document
- means victory in japan day
26. Yalta Conference
- held in russia on february 4th throught the 11th
- was like the war time meeting
- was presented by roosevelt, stalin, churchill
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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