US Homefront:
what is going on in the counrty back home dureing the war
1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940
it is the draft
first peace time draft in history- after 73' the millitary depended on volenteers
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter-represented women workers in WWII
nursing- to help with injuries
secretaries for war letters for deceased
farmer,sales people, drivers, messangers, teachers
women ultimatly helped us win the war. in the home front.
womens army corp.-desk jobs,maps
waves- womens navy-desk jobs
wasp-womens army service pilots-test planes and move them around to new locations
3. African-American's role in WWII
still discriminated against
faught valiently in all areas of the military
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
entertained troops
looney toons-john wayne-sending people over to entertain troops
Bob Hope
6. Office of Price Administration
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
makeing faster boats and being able to out manuver the u voats
intersepting germany transmissions/code
convoy system saling in bulk.
aspying and code breaking shared info
radar-hf/df-detectade uboats like sonar
enigma- german code sender- spolving the enigma machine was the greatest win in wwII-told us what they were planing
bombe- ultimately broke the code of the enigma machine
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
ultra-britain- code name for the intecepting and decifering of german code-less u boat attaches
magic-US-code name for the intercepting and decifering of japanese code-battle midway-first actual win against japan
both very top secret!! we worked together
hunter killer- ships and airplanes that tracked down u boats
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
wanted ukraine-farmland- wanted oil fields in the caucasus mountains
lead by their jewish bulshivik- hated stalin with a passion.
defeating the ussr would further out isolate the allies- western front fighting was over.
use the people as slaves
THE BIGGEST LAND BATTLE IN WWII on june 22 1941
4.5 million german soldiers invaded
wanted ussr to be taken over quickly.
germanies army was split north-lenigrad
center-moscow
south-staligrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall-chief of the US military during WWII-his boss was the pres. second highest
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
18. VE Day
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
29. Why did the allies win WWI?
Henry Kaiser-ship builed /owner- makeing more ships and stuff than all other countries combined.
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