Today, I decided to post all the notes that I have taken over this subject, up until right.. about.. NOW!! ah yes. test next week.
US Homefront:
People back home making war goods, food, medical supplies.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Instituted the U.S. draft. First peacetime draft in U.S. history, was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After that, the military depended on volunteers.
George C. Marshall was the cheif of staff during WWII.
2. Women's role in WWII
Took over men's jobs. (Rosie the Riveter) Nursing. Typists, making equipment and ammunition. WASP; Women's Army Service Pilots; tested planes, transported them. Tokyo Rose forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan. She taunted the troops and played music from home. She was a U.S. citizen and was convicted of treason.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Fought in infantry, flied airplanes. Tuskegee Institute, bombing Italy, Germany.
4. Asian's role in WWII
Did everything a white man did, except discriminated against.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Entertained troops overseas, put out propaganda films, portrayed Germans/Japanese as bad, ugly, and us as just and invincible. Cary Grant, John Wayne famous actors. USO (Bob Hope); sent actors/singers/dancers overseas to entertain the troops.
6. Office of Price Administration
Deals with price controls; dealt with rationing food/gas/clothing. Thousands of workers. Food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat; clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon. Gas rationing began in May 1942; limited to 5 gallons of gas per week. Assigned stickers, A allowed 4 gallons/week, B sticker; supplementary allowance for war workers, C sticker; vital occupation such as doctor, T sticker; truckers allowed unlimited gas. Black market developed in stolen or counterfeit stickers. 1945; 32,500 motorists arrested for using false stickers, 4000 gas stations closed. Everyone given booklet of stamps to buy food. Book came with instructions and 28 stamps.
7. War Production Board
Propagandatold workers not to waste time, work hard, etc.
8. National War Labor Board
Made sure workers got along, anti-strike.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
Henry Kaiser- built ships. Everyone helped make medical supplies, weapons, ammunition. Women working in factories, war production board encouraging people to make as much stuff as possible, Hollywood keeping things positive, National War Labor Board making sure people didn't go on strike. Intelligence gathering.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
We built faster ships to outrun them. Convoy system; ships travelled in large numbers. Ultra and Magic. Hunter-Killer ships and airplanes. Depth charges.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Trying to intercept and decode messages. Radar helped detect vessels and aircraft, HF/DF used to located sources of enemy radio transmissions; submarines. Ultra and Magic were the codenames for intercepting and deciphering German and Japanese codes. German; Ultra. Japanese; Magic. British and American trackers worked together to locate Axis powers using these. Enigma; German system that transferred their code, solving it's code was one of the great Allied triumphs of world war II. British "Bombe" decoded it.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Hitler invaded Soviet Union because of Lebensbraum. (living space) Wanted Ukraine for farmland, use people as slave labor, defeat of USSR would further isolate the Allies. He wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains. He didn't trust Stalin. German propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany. He also hated all the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters. Happened in the summer of 1941, and it was the largest land battle. about 4 million people were killed. Hitler wanted to get Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. WIth these cities, he could basically cripple the USSR. Winter came, and it helped out the soviets, as the Germans weren't prepared for it. Germany had control of 90% of Stalingrad, but they couldn't get control of the whole city. The soviets started to push them back, and by the summer of 1943 it was clear that the Soviets were going to win. It was just a matter of time. The closest German troops got to Moscow was 12 miles. Hitler did meth. People ate people in Leningrad.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel-the desert fox. Very important general for Germany. Very smart, always outwitted, maneuvered, etc. the enemy. Eventually killed by Nazi's. Montgomery; Britain. George Patton; important general for U.S. Treated soldiers very roughly. Well-known and respected. Both Patton and Montgomery went after Rommel. Operation; codename for British-American invasion of French Notrh Africa. We defeated Germans, Italians and Vichy France. Casablanca conference; U.S. and Britain, unconditional surrender of Germany. Fighting in the Appenine Mountains; enemy had high ground, hard to regain control. Fighting in Italy took a long time; 2-3 years.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Marshall; army chief of staff. Eisenhower. Bradley; Famous General.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944. Allied invasion of Nazi France. Two phases. 1st; airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian, and Free French troops shortly after midnight. 2nd; amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting at 6:30 a.m. Also decoy operations to distract the German forces from the real landing areas. Largest amphibious invasion in world history; over 160,000 troops. Roughly 10,000 Allied casualties. Atlantic wall to defend against us.
16. Battle of the Bulge
Winter of 1944, we're right on the border of Germany. Many men, tanks, aircraft lost. Worst American loss in all of WWII. Hitler's last effort. Malmedy Massacre, 86 American soldiers were murdered, worst atrocity against American soldiers. Did nothing but kill people.
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