Thursday, March 31

1. Selective Training and Service Act

homefront-what we are doing back home to help win the war

-instituted the US draft (1st peacetime draft in US history)

-used until 1973

2. Women's role in WWII

-worked in factories (represented by Rosie the Riveter)

-worked as nurse, farm workers. typist, sales people, bus driver, taxi driver, time keeper, elavator operation, laundry, teacher, conductor

-waves for women (navy)

3. African-American's role in WWII

-minority men worked in factories or were in the war.. faced discrimination and segregation

4. Asian's role in WWII



5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-films and cartoons were propaganda pieces
-entertained soldiers



6. Office of Price Administration
-administer price controls
-set limits on prices
-rations.. certain stickers gave more gas than others
-with rations came black market
-stamps for food.. couldn't trade or give others
-had to wait in lines for getting their stuff
-horse meat not rationed

7. War Production Board
-production wins the war.. keep the home fires burning.. SUCCESS


8. National War Labor Board
-together we win.. get behin your labor-management committee


9. Why the Homefront helped win the war



10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-convoy system: traveling in a big group

-everything was about trying to figure out and decode the enemies messages.. HF/DF could detect subs

-ships and airplanes fought uboats

-depth charges were bombs that would be sent in the water where they could damage or destroy uboat


11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-Code name given for the intercepting of enemies codes.. ultra=germany and magic=japan

  -helped us win the war b/c we could avoid subs

-solving Enigma system for Germany that transferred messages

  -bombe actually broke the code



12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Hitler invaded (even with people saying no) b/c  of: lebensraum, didn't like Slavs, Ukraine for farming, ppl for slaves, defreat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies, oilfields in Caucasas mountain, didn't trust Stalin, western from fighting was over


13. Battle in Africa and Italy



14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley



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 the Allies win WWII?

-women working in the factories (:
-Industrialists (like Henry Kaiser) helped to make more supplies etc. in factories

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