US Homefront:
The country where the soliders are from. What they are doing at home to help with the war. We were lucky we didnt have to fight battles in our country. War bonds and taxes. People loan money to the goverment and they will get paid back for that later.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940. First peacetime draft in US history.
Used until 1973 to fill military nees.
After 1973 US military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
Millions of people volunteered to fight but there just wasnt enough so that was where the draft came in. Lots of people would lie about their age to get into the war.
We started preparing for war.
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter- represented women workers in WWII
"We can do it!"
women played an important role- they took the jobs of men
right after WWI they got the right to vote
more women started keeping jobs and going to college
women worked many more years in the work place
there were worries about women getting to big of muscles while working in factories
poster showed you can still look nice but be able to work in the work place
if it wasnt for the women in the factories, they made everything that helped us win the war
they were nurses taking care of the injured troops
office jobs, working for the government
everything was typed on type writers
farm workers
sails people
waiters
messengers
teachers
conductors
women were important in the war to make war goods
WAC- Women's version of the Army-looking over maps, photographic labratory technition
rationed goods- you could only get so much of things per week. You are hurting our country by doing that.
grow their own gardens so you can feed yourself and can it
WAVES- Women's Navy.- they would work on the phones and type.
WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots- transport planes. Test planes.
Tokyo Rose- Iva Toguri- US citizen in japan. she was forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for Japan.
In these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home.
she was convicted of treason by going against her country.
made the troops feel home sick.
3. African-American's role in WWII
segregation was a law of the land
military was no different- blacks and whites were not mixed
they fought in WWII
many were infantry men and some were pilots
at first they werent given the right to fight
they would fix and test things
eventually were allowed to fight.
some men worked in factories
4. Asian's role in WWII
Same type of thing.
they faced discrimination probably even more than african americans.
they werent liked either
they basically did the same things the african americans did.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
tried to get people to buy war bonds
cartoons and japanese always wore big glasses to make them look blind- racist
try to get the public to support their war
lots of movies made about WWII
Casablanca
Bob Hope and the USO tour
he was a comediean
he was they guy that went over and entertained the troops
they would go to places that were considered safe
troops got some time off to enjoy themselves
Bing Crosby- singer
John Wayne- made lots of WWII movies
Kilroy was here
6. Office of Price Administration
established in 1941 to administer price controls
so prices wouldnt sky rocket
also dealt with rationing of goods
food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat
clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon
gasoline reationing limiting use of five gallons per week
A, B, C, T stickers
a black market developed in stolen or counterfeit stickers that were used
with rationing came lines
coming out of the great depression made it easier
horse meat was not rationed
7. War Production Board
government organization to encourge factories to make as much as they could
keep the home fires burning, more production!
it was a great organization
we made more stuff than all the other countries combined
8. National War Labor Board
Together we win
bringing worker and owner together
pay your workers some what decently
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
the homefront is where we made all our stuff which was very important
it was responsible of having people get inolved
planting victory gardens
factory workers
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
battle for the atlantic. they tried to sink ships to prevent them from delievering their supplies
as time went on we made our ships so they could go faster
being able to out run a U boat attack
U boats above water werent great
it was the surprise attack that worked so well
U boat transmitting center ashore
we intercepted the information we would be able to tell where U boats were going to be
and could avoid them by planning a different route
the convoy system- power in number
travel in large groups.
ship with ltos of goods would be in the middle and then surround it by others
RADAR would detect vessels above the surface
HF/DF locate submarines below the surface
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
intercepting the german and japanese codes
ULTRA and MAGIC- code breaking secrets intercepting and defifering german and japnese codes.
german, Japanese
allied intelligence played a big part in winning the war.
enigma- system in which germany transfered their information through codes
solving the enigma system remains one of the great allied triumps of WWII
it gave us a huge advantage
once we knew the code we could avoid the U boats
the machine that did the interceping and decifered the code was called the Bombe
Hunter Killers- chasing down axis submarines
ships that went after U boats
later was an airplanes, hunt and kill u boats
depth charge
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
lebensram
he wanted the soviet union
thought they need more room for their aryan race
he despised the ethnic slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters
didnt like the people or government of the soviet union
wanted Ukraine for the farm land
could use the people as slave labor
the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Alies
wanted the oil fields in the Caucasus mountains
he didnt trust stalin
stalin didnt trust hilter either
german propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany
the western front fighting was over except great britain and the bombing at night
hugest casualities
most destruction in world history
the greatest land war in recorded history
summer of 1941 at 3:30 AM
the main front would eventually expand to 1490 miles and extend to a depth of over 600 miles
in the soviet union marched the best of german army, amouting to three quarters of its field strength
By the end of the year there were lots of people in captivity and lots who had died in battle
at one time the germans occupied some 900000 square miles of soviet territory
three main pushes- take leningrad, then stalingrad, then moscow
Hitlers drive to the Caucasus- the the oilfields, got all the way down there. this was a year in after the invasion.
stalingrad- stalins name sake city, dont retreat. germans did very well for themselves. hitler had wanted this to be over eight to ten months earlier. 1942 russians offensive begins. some german soliders trapped at stalingrad- operation winter storm
germany invaded and did very well at first then the winter set in and they went down hill.
city of stalingrad was destoryed
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US Military during WWII- he was the boss of all of the others. He was the guy in washington DC and the other guys were on the battlefields.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
16. Battle of the Bulge
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
Why did we win WWII?
Henry Kaiser- he was a ship builder.
he owned the company
by the end of the war we were making more ships than all the countries combined
we had so much finished product that the axis powers couldnt keep up with it
industrialist
minorities
women
we could intercept and figure out what they were talking about
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