Tuesday, april 3

[3gabriel]

1.Selective Training and service Act - 1940
-first peacetime draft in US history
-used until 1973 to fill military needs
-after 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
 
2.Woman in WWII
-they worked like nurses helping the soldiers
- work in factory
3. African-American's role in WWII
- black woman worked in factory
-volunteer to fight
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Had to wear a button so people knew they were US citizens
-Farmers and fought
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Made cartoons and movies to help war efforts and to have people donate money for the war efforts
-Bob Hope famous comedian, sang, and danced and he would entertain the troops
-The USO- United Service Organization none profit organization that entertains the troops
6. Office of Price Administration
-OPA first to discover a ration book
-each family would get a ration book so they could spend what they needed not how much they wanted.
7. War Production Board
-Government organization that encuraged people to produce as much as possible
-mass production
8. National War Labor Board
-Woodrow Wilson made it and kept peace between workers so they didn't go on strike
9. How the US Homefront helped win the war
-mass production and women worked in factories so more men could fight
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-depth charges and airplanes with destroyers, convoys
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-Spies would go under cover to get info. from the enemy
-Code name for intersepting enemy codes
-Huff Duff sonar and radar
-Enigma: System Which Germany transferred their information through codes
-Bombe helped decode things
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Germany attacked USSR with 3 million soldiers and 1.5 thousand tanks
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-We entered the war in 1941
-Reasons Oil resources, and see who would control Africa
-Allied forces won
-Erwin Rommel the desert fox tried to kill Hitler and committed cuicide
-Bernard Montgomery- Monty- Great Britan
-George Patton- United States, had ivory pistols. US General in Africa
-Operation Torch- British- American incasion of French North Africa
-Casablanca Conference- January 1942, unconditional surrender
-Churchill called Italy the soft under belly of Europe and said we should invade them
-Italy very mountainous
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
 George Marshall US chief of staff main guy except president of the United States.
-Dwight Eisenhower- led D-Day, supreme allied comander in charge high in all allied forces army
-General Douglas MacArthur- leader of US army of Japan
-Patton- above
-Admiral Chester Nimitz- leader of Navy against Japan
-Omar Bradley- General in Africa for US
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-June 6, 1944 allied forces invading Nazi controlled France, successfully, Airborne assault, British, American, Canadian and free French
-amphibious attacks
16. Battle of the Bulge
-19,000 americans died, Hitlers last try at the war Largest and bloodiest battle of the war
-December 1944 January 1945 US won
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-Bad health
-paralysis, high blood pressure, smoker, heart disease
-died on April 2, 1945
-Truman from Missour and he was very blunt, responsible for any mistakes, swore alot, said the buck stops here
-final say for the atomic bomb dropping.
18. VE Day
-May 8, 1945 victory in Europe.
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
-island hopping is to cut Japanese islands off from comunications and suppies.
-Coral sea May 1942 they damaged our ships
-Japanese against US
-Midway fighting of ships
-June 1942 US won, philipines December 7, 1941 American POW's battaan death march
-Japan apologized for killing 20,000 people of the death march.
-Okinawa June 21, 1945, small south island of Japan
-Japanese would use kamikaze planes, pack their plane with explosives and crashed into ships.
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-Navajo language and they would send codes in Navajo language and Japanese couldn't break their language. Didn't get recognized until Bill Clinton gave congressional gold metals to them or their families. 
21. Doolittle's Raid
-General James Doolittle
-First air attack on Japan on April 18, 1942
-16 planes that attacked Tokyo Japan
-All the air crafts were destroyed and 11 of the 16 crew members died
22. Manhattan Project
-project to make the atomic bomb
-Albert Einstein and J Robert Oppenheimer
-Groves General in charge
-Trinity test bomb made the sand turn into glass
23. Hiroshima bombing
-August 6, 1945 little boy bomb, Paul Tibits dropped it 245, 000 people died from it
-Enola Gay was the plane that was strong enough to haul the atomic bomb
24. Nagasaki bombing
-Fat Man August 9, 1945, Bockscar, 80,000 deaths, Chuck Sweany, missed target
25. VJ Day
-Victory over Japan Day August 14, 1945. End of WWII
26. Yalta Conference
-In Russia February  US, GB, France, USSR
-Stalin promised free elections in Europe
-Stalin promised to go againt Japan after Germany was out of the war
-Have a conferance at San Fransisco to set up the United Nations.
27. Nuremburg Trials
-Allied forces made military courts
-1945-1949
-tried to get the higher up German officers and tried to kill them
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
-Thought they might have been spies to they put them in the internment camps and they let the kids go to school and they parents got paid for their work
-they had sports and entertainment
-Then Bill Clinton appologised for the US doing this to them.
29. Why did the Allies win WWII?
-Hitler tried to fight a multi front war. Hitlers mistakes
-over production and women
-atomic bomb
-more troops
-relations with other countries. US and Great Britan
-codes and Navajo code talkers
my topic in Cold war is:
 12. Nixon's visit to China-