US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
2. Women's role in WWII-Did men's jobs. Worked in factories, and as nurses, in the war. Rosie the Riveter
3. African-American's role in WWII-
Same as white americans. Flew ships, fought, etc
Tuskegee Institute trained to African Americans be pilots and commence bombing raids. Bombed Italy and Germany
4. Asian's role in WWII-
Same as white americans. Flew ships, fought, etc
5. Hollywood's role in WWII-Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, John Wayne
6. Office of Price Administration=Price control and Rationing. Rationing is a limit to how much you can buy. Price control was...duh. Established 1941. Things such as Sugar, Meat, and gas. Stickers.
A sticker allowed 4 gallons per week
B sticker allowed more gas
C sticker-Doctors, were needed
T-stickers- Truckers unlimited gas
Counterfeit stickers were made and people were arrested for that. 4000 gas stations shut down.
Rationing was so resources could go overseas.
7. War Production Board-Org. that incoraged companies to produce as much as possible
8. National War Labor Board-Wanted owners and workers got along.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war -Women helped produce more stuff. WPB
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats-Faster ships
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic-Ultra was German Code and Magic was Japanese Code. Bombe broke codes. Used radar to detect ships above water. and HF/DF detected ships underwater. Also known as Huff Duff
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)- Hitler Invaded Soviet Union for living space and farmland, make their people slaves, wanted oil fields in Caucasus mountains. Didnt trust Stalin. Began June 22, 1941. Hitler wanted to take over the soviet union badly. 3.5 million Red Army soldiers, 4 million died. LARGEST LAND BATTLE IN HISTORY. German Army in USSR was split:
1. Army Group North
2. Army Group Centre
3. Army Group South
13. Battle in Africa and Italy-
Africa-Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox. Was hunted by the Germans. Fought against Bernard Montegomery and George Patton. Casablanca Conference- January 1942 "Unconditional Surrender"
Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur-Fought the Japanese, Nimitz- Leader of U.S. Navy , Bradley
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944-Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France.
Two Phases- 1.Airborne assualt 2. An amphibious landing of Allied Infantry started at 6:30
There were decoy operations to distract the German forces
Largest amphibious invasion in world history with over 160,000
Roughly 10,000 Allied casualties (6,600 US)
16. Battle of the Bulge-
Winter of 1944-1945, Hitler attemp to defend against Americans.
Coldest, snowiest weather in Ardennes Forest on German/Belgium border.
Over a million men 500,000 Germans, 600,000 Americans. 100,000 German Casualties 81000 casualties.
Hitler marries Eva Braun then commits suicide. Poisoned himself, then shot himself
17. FDR Dies April 1945-Truman takes over
18. VE Day-
Victory in Europe Day
May 8th, 1945
War is over in Europe
19. Battle in the Pacific-
Island Hopping, U.S strategy to capture Islands where we hopped over less important islands, saving time and lives
Philippines- December 7, 1941 A day to be remembered infamously,
Bataan Death March of May, JApanese faced war crimes, May 30, 2009 the Japanese apologized. between 6000 and 11000 died.hysical abuse and murder. Worse atrocity for U.S. soldiers in WW11. Forced 75,000 Americans and Filipinos to POW camps. Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philipinnes October 1944. America pwns remaining Japanese Navy
Battle Coral Sea
-May 4-8. Major Naval Battle Between Japan and US/Australia. No ship fire?!?!?! First time we stopped Japan from advancing. Japan sunk more ships than we did. 6 months after Pearl Harbour.
Midway
-Most Important battle against Japan, fought between June 4-7, 1942. The Japanese aimed to eliminate US as a strategic power.in the pacific. And thought a victory at midway would do that. United States pwnd. Never recovered Japan did. Magic-deciphered their Code. Which is why we won.
Guadalcanal
- Faught between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 in Solomon Island, Allies beat Japan in Pacific theatre, Allies moved from defense to offense which led to Japans defeat and surrender of WW2
Iwo Jima-
- 6821 US Deaths at Iwo Jima
Okinawa,-
20. Navajo Code Talkers- Made so foreign countries couldnt understand their messages
21. Doolittle's Raid- Morale? Pwnd Japan. Militarily made no sense.
22. Manhattan Project-
Codename for creation of the atomic bomb. General Leslie Groves, general of atomic bomb making or somethin like that. J Robert Oppenheimer was a communist chief scientist. Alamagordo, New Mexico is where we tested the first atomic bomb. codename trinity test. Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbits, was the only plane strong enough to hold the 12,000 lb atomic bomb. Hiroshima got pwnd. B-29 Superfortress
23. Hiroshima bombing-Little boy B-29 Superfortress
24. Nagasaki bombing-fat man B-29 Superfortress
25. VJ Day- August 1945, Japan surrendered
26. Yalta Conference-Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Yalta, Ukraine, before germany surrendered. Split germany into four zones (U.S, Great Britain, France, USSR)
Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over
Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the U.S.
27. Nuremburg Trials- in Germany, Hermann Goering was leader of German Luftwaffe, took over after Hitler, Hung hiimself. GI Bill of rightss helped veterans transfer to normal lifestyle
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US- Japanese Americans Forced to sell everything and move into Internment camps, told it was for safety, but really just didnt trust them.
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