Today we continued our power point and took notes, work on projects!
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Military Needs
-First Peacetime draft (up to 1973)
-U.S depended on volunteers to fill military needs
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women started working in Factories and made military goods.
-Women were a big success in WW2
-They deserve some credit for winning the war.
(Factories, nurses, type-writers)
3. African-American's role in WWII
-Worked on planes, and fixed some up.
-Factories.
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Discrimination but they did work on plans and fixed some up.
-Fought in the war
-Worked in Factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Provide Entertainment for the troops.
-Propaganda
6. Office of Price Administration
-Dealt with price controls and rations goods.
(food, clothing, silk, gas, toys)
-A stickers
-People had to stand in lines for sugar
7. War Production Board
-Encourage factories to make as many goods for the war as they could.
-Work hard and efficient
8. National War Labor Board
-Pay workers good
-treat them well so they will work more efficently.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-We created so many military products
-Our factories were producing so many more products than any other country.
WW2=10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-They used their speed to out-run a U-boat attack.
-convoy system-travel in large groups to protect from U-boats attacks.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-HF/DF could locate submarines under water.
-Radar could tell where the enemy was. (Planes and ships)
-We tried to intercept the enemies communication system.
-They created super computers to get intelligence.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Hitler invaded Soviet Union so they could have more living space for Germans.
-Farmland
-Use the Soviet Union for slaves if they won.
-He wanted the oil fields in the Mountains.
-And he didnt trust Stalin
-Began early morning and it was a large battle.
-about 3/4ths of Germans military invaded the Soviet Union.
-Lenningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
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14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
-Marshall-Boss of every other Guy on this list. Cheif of U.S Military
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
29. Why did we win World War 2?
-We had a lot of ships and made so much more stuff for military needs.
-We had so many products.
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