US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
*It allowed people that were eighteen to go into the war
*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 started working in factoriesand made stuff for the war
*Some women signed up to be secretaries and nurses in the war
*Rosie Riveter represented workers in WW2
3. African-American's role in WWII
*They were segragated into black/white units
*There were alot that registered for the draft
*They couldnt fight in the front lines
*They were made into cooks, janitors, and other things.
4. Asian's role in WWII
*Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes
*Alot of Americans born Japanese people joined the American military to prove their loyalty
* They had to wear a tag to show they were Japanese American soldiers
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
*Looney Toons and Bob Hope was a comedian
*He would go and talk to troops and get the moral up
*Had clippings of the News reels that they'd play before movies
6. Office of Price Administration
*Set up by FDR
*Passed before we were involved in WW2
*Set up the ration stamps (saying how much people could buy)
7. War Production Board
*Established in 1942 by FDR
*It was made to make sure that they kept up with production of goods
*Automobile factories would make tanks
8. National War Labor Board
*Help work together to win the war
*It was made to make sure that people didnt go on strike
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
*Women stepped up on there roles working in factories
*Production for war goods went high
*Hollywood helped win the war by propaganda
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
*We kept adding weapons to the fight
*We changed our naval code so they couldnt tell where we were
*We continued to make new ships at a fast pace
*Summer of 1943 our destroyers took down all the U boats in the Atlantic
*Speed
*Ultra information
*Radar
*HF/DF or huff duff
*Enigma
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
*I am a German and I am ordered to give out information to everyone on the waves
*High level codes
*The Italian mofia would spy and find the German weapons and there strengths
*Ultra secret was the code name
*Magic was United States
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
*It was the largest military operation in history
*Some people died of starvation, disease, and froze to death
*German invasion of Soviet Union
*Despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bloshevik" masters
*Wanted Ukraine for the farmland
*Could use the people for slave labor
*Defeat Soviet Union in 6 months he believed
*Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
*US started on May 11th 1944
*Also involved in Operation Torch
*Take warfare was very common
*We invaded in Morocco
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
*George Marshall was chief of Staff of the US Military during WW2
*Dwight Eisenhower was the surpreme commander of all alli troops
*Patton was in charge of the army against Japan
*MacArthur was the Chief of staff during WW2 and was the Armys youngest major general. He was in charge of the army that was fought the Japanese
*Nimitz was in the Navy. He President of the Submarine disign board. He signed for the US when Japan surrendered. He was chief of staff of the Pacific
*Bradley was under Eisenhower and fought the Germans
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
*Allies invaded the Germans
*June 6th 1944
*Postponed to that day
*Operation overload
*Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France
*The assault was conducted in two phrases
*Roughly 10,000 Allied causalties
*Stayed on the beach for 3 weeks
16. Battle of the Bulge
*Largest and most costly battle for the US
*Takes place in Belgium
*Caused alot of confusion
*Worst winter and snow
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
*FDR was a sick man with polio
*FDR has alot of heart problems
*FDR died of a heart attack
*Truman was in the National Guard
*When he was president they dropped bombs on Japan
18. VE Day
*Victory in Europe Day
*All Allied powers were celebrating
*May 8th 1945
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
*Island Hopping: Go from dock to dock to get goods
*Bataan Death March
*Major turning point in war coral sea
*Okinawa was a battle fleet size was 186,000.
20. Navajo Code Talkers
*Code that others couldnt read
21. Doolittle's Raid
*Bombing on Japan
*To show that we can and will fight back
*No aircrafts came back
22. Manhattan Project
*The bombing of the atomic bomb
*Was code
*Affected the city
23. Hiroshima bombing
*Bomb was called Little Boy
*First place US used atomic bomb
24. Nagasaki bombing
*Not intended to be second bombing
*It was called Fat Man
*After Hiroshima
*Turned everything to rubble
25. VJ Day
*Victory in Japan Day
*Emperor got on radio
*August 14th, 1945
26. Yalta Conference
*February of 1945
*Conference with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt
*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 set up the United Nations
27. Nuremburg Trials
*People sentenced to death or sent to prison
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
29. GI Bill of RIghts
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