US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
*It allowed people that were eighteen to go into the war
*First peacetime draft in US History
*Used until 1973 to fill military needs
*After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
*They started working in factoriesand made stuff for the war
*Some women signed up to be secretaries and nurses in the war
*Rosie Riveter represented workers in WW2
3. African-American's role in WWII
*They were segragated into black/white units
*There were alot that registered for the draft
*They couldnt fight in the front lines
*They were made into cooks, janitors, and other things.
4. Asian's role in WWII
*Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes
*Alot of Americans born Japanese people joined the American military to prove their loyalty
* They had to wear a tag to show they were Japanese American soldiers
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
*Looney Toons and Bob Hope was a comedian
*He would go and talk to troops and get the moral up
*Had clippings of the News reels that they'd play before movies
6. Office of Price Administration
*Set up by FDR
*Passed before we were involved in WW2
*Set up the ration stamps (saying how much people could buy)
7. War Production Board
*Established in 1942 by FDR
*It was made to make sure that they kept up with production of goods
*Automobile factories would make tanks
8. National War Labor Board
*Help work together to win the war
*It was made to make sure that people didnt go on strike
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
*Women stepped up on there roles working in factories
*Production for war goods went high
*Hollywood helped win the war by propaganda
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
*We kept adding weapons to the fight
*We changed our naval code so they couldnt tell where we were
*We continued to make new ships at a fast pace
*Summer of 1943 our destroyers took down all the U boats in the Atlantic
*Speed
*Ultra information
*Radar
*HF/DF or huff duff
*Enigma
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
*I am a German and I am ordered to give out information to everyone on the waves
*High level codes
*The Italian mofia would spy and find the German weapons and there strengths
*Ultra secret was the code name
*Magic was United States
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
*It was the largest military operation in history
*Some people died of starvation, disease, and froze to death
*German invasion of Soviet Union
*Despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bloshevik" masters
*Wanted Ukraine for the farmland
*Could use the people for slave labor
*Defeat Soviet Union in 6 months he believed
*Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
*US started on May 11th 1944
*Also involved in Operation Torch
*Take warfare was very common
*We invaded in Morocco
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
*George Marshall was chief of Staff of the US Military during WW2
*Dwight Eisenhower was the surpreme commander of all alli troops
*Patton was in charge of the army against Japan
*MacArthur was the Chief of staff during WW2 and was the Armys youngest major general. He was in charge of the army that was fought the Japanese
*Nimitz was in the Navy. He President of the Submarine disign board. He signed for the US when Japan surrendered. He was chief of staff of the Pacific
*Bradley was under Eisenhower and fought the Germans
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
*Allies invaded the Germans
*June 6th 1944
*Postponed to that day
*Operation overload
*Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France
*The assault was conducted in two phrases
*Roughly 10,000 Allied causalties
*Stayed on the beach for 3 weeks
16. Battle of the Bulge
*Largest and most costly battle for the US
*Takes place in Belgium
*Caused alot of confusion
*Worst winter and snow
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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