1. Selective Training and Service Act
- allowed people at age 18 to draft for the war
- First peacetime draft in US History
- Used until 1973 to fill miltary needs
- After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
- Factory work back home
- Nurses
- Rosie the Riveter
- Represented women workers in WW2
- Sales ladies, bus drivers, farmers, messengers, conductors
- WASP- Womens Army Service Pilots
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Not seen as equal
- Not able to fight in the front line
- Cooks, janitors,
- Tuskegee Airmen
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Forced from their homes
- volunteered to serve for the US
- They had to wear tags to let people know that they were Japanese- American solider
- They also helped in factories back home
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Bob Hope and Looney Tones
- Kept the troops entertained
6. Office of Price Administration
- Adminstration set up by FDR-
- Rationing on products like food, gas-- it said never spend money until it was been ration
- 1941 to adminster price controls
7. War Production Board
- Keep up with the production of goods for WW2
8. National War Labor Board
- To keep employers and employees from agruing so the employees wouldnt go on strike
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- women helped a lot back homes in factories
- Holloywood, by helping keeping the war positive
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- U-Boats- submarines
- Adding new weapons and make ships at a quicker rate
- Changed our naval code so germany wouldnt know where we were
- Built faster ships
- Convoy System-
- We used radar, HF/Df ( locate enemies under the surface).,
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Behind the scenes
- Broke their codes
- Ultra was the name for the British
- Magic was done by the United States
- A big reason we won the won
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Largest military operation in WW2
- Germany invasion of Soviet Union
- The russian army killed 64000 resistants
- Lebensraum
- Despired the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters
- Wanted Ukraine for the farmland
- Could use the people as slave labor
- the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies
- Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains
- Didnt trust Stalin- German progaganda showed that Stalin was planning to atttak Germany
- The Western Front fighting was over
- Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Erwin Rommel- The Desert Fox
- Operation Torch-
- Tanks
- ITALY- Allies won the battle of Sicily
- Allies wanted Rome next on july 4th, 1944
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US military during WW2\
- noble peace prize
- Makes a lot of the big decisions
Eisenhower
- Supreme member of the Allie troops
- Famous for the D-Day invasion
Patton
- Very big of ordealness and organization
- famous US general
- Fought it Europe and Africa
MacAruther
- Pacific theater is WW2
- chief of staff\
- Charge of the army against Japan
Nimitz
- Got accepted into the Navy
- Head of the navy against Japan
Bradley
- Fought in Africa and fought against the Germans
- Famous general for US who fought againt Africa and Germans
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord-- June 6, 1944
- Operation overlord
- Allied Invasion of the nazis controlled France
- The assault was conducted in two phases
- 1. Airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian, and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight
- 2. an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting aat 6:30 AM
- There was also decoy operations to distract the German forces from the real landing area
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Largest and costless battle for the US
- in Belguim
- Gain control over a river
- Coldest and snowest winter ever
- German created a bulge on the front line
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
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