Today in Class we continued our notes.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Military Needs
-First Peacetime draft (up to 1973)
-U.S depended on volunteers to fill military needs
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women started working in Factories and made military goods.
-Women were a big success in WW2
-They deserve some credit for winning the war.
(Factories, nurses, type-writers)
3. African-American's role in WWII
-Worked on planes, and fixed some up.
-Factories.
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Discrimination but they did work on plans and fixed some up.
-Fought in the war
-Worked in Factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Provide Entertainment for the troops.
-Propaganda
6. Office of Price Administration
-Dealt with price controls and rations goods.
(food, clothing, silk, gas, toys)
-A stickers
-People had to stand in lines for sugar
7. War Production Board
-Encourage factories to make as many goods for the war as they could.
-Work hard and efficient
8. National War Labor Board
-Pay workers good
-treat them well so they will work more efficently.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-We created so many military products
-Our factories were producing so many more products than any other country.
WW2=10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-They used their speed to out-run a U-boat attack.
-convoy system-travel in large groups to protect from U-boats attacks.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-HF/DF could locate submarines under water.
-Radar could tell where the enemy was. (Planes and ships)
-We tried to intercept the enemies communication system.
-They created super computers to get intelligence.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Hitler invaded Soviet Union so they could have more living space for Germans.
-Farmland
-Use the Soviet Union for slaves if they won.
-He wanted the oil fields in the Mountains.
-And he didnt trust Stalin
-Began early morning and it was a large battle.
-about 3/4ths of Germans military invaded the Soviet Union.
-Lenningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow were the main points that Germany tried to over-take.
-Germany got within 12 miles of Moscow but never did get into the city.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-U.S invades Africa to defeat the Nazi army.
-We won and Africa was free from Germany.
-We went north and Fought in Italy and fought on Appenine Mts. we defeated the Germans in Italy, and Italy was free.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
-Marshall-Boss of every other Guy on this list. Cheif of U.S Military
-General Patton was a famous U.S General. He was a tough guy, and really good General.
-Dwight Eisenhower- He was the head guy in Europe of all Alled Forces.
Omar Bradley-U.S WW2 General
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-June 6, 1944 was when this took place
-ships came on the beach and soldiers in front had a could chance of getting shot.
-We (allies) invade France.
-we lost just under 3,000 soldiers that died.
-160,000 casualties. (Died, captured, missing)
16. Battle of the Bulge
-Hitler's Last effort to win the war.
-The coldest in the forrest along the Belgium Border.
-a massive battle and a lot of casualties.
-They lost a lot of supplies as well as machinery.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-Died a month before the war ended.
18. VE Day
-War is over
-May 8, 1945 (remember)
PART 3=19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
-Island hopping was when we went from one major island to the next to push the Japenese out.
-Phillippines was an American colony and it was also bombed December 7, 1941.
-Japan took over the Phillipines.
-FDR ordered MacArthur to evacuate his troops and head to Australia.
-The "Bataan Death March," was when American and Filipino soldiers marched.
-The Japenese murdered, beaten, and starved our troops on this 60 mile march.
-75,000 American and Filipino POW's on this March.
-Coral Sea was fought on May 4-8, 1942.
-It was fought between Japenese and U.S and Australian force.
-Airplane battle
-U.S stopped their defense and basically we won, but technically no one won the battle.
-Battle of Midway was another huge boost for the U.S and we also stopped Japan's advance.
-we gained moral support and won the battle.
-Guadalcanal was really our first Offensive side of the war.
-This marked when the Japenese surrenders and they fought hard. (to the death)
-Battle of Leyte Gulf and General MacArthur came back just like he promised.
-And we destroyed the Japenese force on the Phillipines.
-Iwo Jima 6,821 Americans died in battle.
-2 American Flag raising.
-2nd was the most Famous.
-Okinawa
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-They transmitted information over the Radio in their code.
-this made it so Japan didn't know what we were doing because they couldn't read our messages.
-a big reason we won the war was because of this code.
21. Doolittle's Raid
-when we bombed the Japenese so we could gain back more power and cause confusion on Japan.
-The U.S needed more moral support.
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 we win World War 2?
-We had a lot of ships and made so much more stuff for military needs.
-We had so many products.
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