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US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- passed in 1940
- first draft in us history
2. Women's role in WWII
- women took over making of food, war supplies, buisnesses
- test airplaines
- secretaries
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought/ worked in factories
4. Asian's role in WWII
- fought/ worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- made holocost movie which forced hate torwards natzi's
- entertained troops and homefront
- propaganda
6. Office of Price Administration
- rationing to save food, gas: different types of stickers for what job you have
7. War Production Board
- Started by FDR
- produce war materials- ammo
- rationing
8. National War Labor Board
- started in ww1
- we needed production
- save efforts of labor until after the war
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- supplies and food
- weapons
- positive
- rationing
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- they knew where they were via ultra and magic
- speed
- hf-df radar
- depth chargers and hunter killers
11. Intelligece gathering--Ultra/Magic
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Hitlers biggest mistake
- biggest invasion in history
- million of men died
- hitler wanted resources and a place for arians
- oil fields
- defeat of ussr would isolate allies
- stallingrad, leningrad, moskow
- russia turned to canibalism for 872 days because germany cut them off from leningrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Tank warfare
- First area where we started fighting
- Erwin Rommel- Desert Fox
- out witted us
- Operation Torch- the british-american ivasion of french north africa
- 1943 defeated north africa
- moved up to Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
- Marshall- chief of us military
- MacArthur- us army general against japan
- Patton- Africa against Rommel
- Eisenhower- Eupoean general, in charge of D-Day invasion
- Nimitz- us navy general against japan
- Bradley- Operation Overlord- germany
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- When we invaded France from Germany
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Belgium
- Hitlers last attempt to defeat allies
- huge offensive
- tried to get to the sea thinking that we would give up if they got to the sea
- coldest snowiest war
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
- fdr died of a stroke
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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