Thursday, March 29th

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1. Selective Training and Service Act

•  Instituted the draft! 
• First peacetime draft in US History
• Used till 1973

2. Women's role in WWII

• (Rosie the Riveter)
• Nursing
• Working in factories
• Typists, waitresses, bus drivers, etc
• Women's Navy / WASP (test planes)
• "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri (taunted troops) 

3. African-American's role in WWII

•  Not seen as equals yet
• Many were in the war but were segregated 
• Weren't allowed on the front line (thought couldn't handle it) at first
• Used as janitors, etc first
• Tusegee Airman proved they could fly
• If didn't fight, worked in factories / farmed

4. Asian's role in WWII

•  After Pearl Harbor, they were forced to leave their homes
• Many of them volunteered to serve in the war to prove their loyalty
• Had to wear tags so they knew they were Japanese Americans 

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

•  Bob Hope - entertained the troops (comedian)
• Looney Tunes! 
• USO 
• Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney, The Rockettes 

6. Office of Price Administration

•  Set up by FDR
• Before involved in WW2
• Set up how much the ration coupon books were supposed to allow people to buy
• No toys because they weren't allowed steel
• No silk or nylon
• Gas rationed
• 4 gallons of gas per week

7. War Production Board

•  Kept up with supplies for WW2 
• Made sure we made as much as we could! 

8. National War Labor Board

•  Help stop fights / arguing between companies

9. How the US Homefront helped win the war

•  Women stepped up; war production 
• Hollywood; kept troops entertained (kept war positive - propaganda)

10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats

•  Able to make a lot of ships
• Changed our Navy Code so couldn't determine where we were
• We sunk a bunch of their U-boats

11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic

•  (Spying)
• Ultra/Magic - Broke their codes so knew where they were going; what they were going to do!
• Ultra (Secret) -- German code (BY BRITAIN)
• Magic -- Japanese code (BY US)
• Speed
• Convoy System - power in numbers
• Huff Duff - radio below surface
• Radar 

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)

•  Ordered him to cut off production 
• GERMAN INVADED RUSSIA
• Lebenraum (living space in Russia for German people)
• Wanted for farmland
• Could use the people as slave labor
• Isolate the Allies
• Hitler was getting bored.. 
• German Army in USSR was split: 
• 1. Army Group North whose main goal was Leningrad
• -it's a siege, not invade 
• 2. Army Group Center whose main goal was Moscow - key city - made hitler mad
• -he took over and made military decisions, german officers started to go against hitler
• 3. Army Group South Salingrad

13. Battle in Africa and Italy

 Africa: 

• Started on May 11th
• Invasion of Marraco
• German General: Erwin Rommel - turned on Hitler; committed suicide
• Benard Montgomery: British General

Italy: 

• US & Canada invaded Cicily 
• Allies wanted to move into main Italy - 1943
• Wanted to get city of Naples
• Allies won
• Rome next - 1944 got control
• Florence 
• August 25th got through Gothic Line

14. US Generals-

Marshall:

• Organizer to victories, given Noble Peace Award
• US General
• Chief Staff of Military

Eisenhower:

• D-Day Invasion
• US General
• Supreme Commander of Allied Forces

Patton:

• Officer
• Famous US General - Fought in Africa and then later in Europe

MacArthur:

• Chief of Staff in Army

Nimitz:

Bradley:

 

15. D-Day-Operation Overlord

• Code for Battle of Normandy
•  June 6th, 1944
• Postponed to that day; June 5th before because weather
• Took place in France - Allie Invasion of Nazi Controlled
• 2 Part Process
• 1. An Airborne Assault
• Landing of Allied Infantry and Armored Divisions on the coast of France
• Decoy Operations - distract German forces
• 10,000 Casualties 
• Atlantic Wall - systems of costal fortifications built by Germans

16. Battle of the Bulge

•  Largest and Costliest for US
• Germany's last offensive in Western Front
• Succecessful at first - caught by surprise 
• In Belgium
• Caused a lot of confusion for the new troops
• Snowiest / Coldest winter
• Germans created a Bulge in 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

29. Why did the Allies win WWII?