Today we continued WWII discussion.
US Homefront: What U.S was doing back home to help win the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act- first peacetime draft in U.S history. used until 1973 to fill military needs, after 1973 military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII- Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WWII. They took the work of men and worked in factories. they pushed for equal rights. Many women became nurses. farm workers, bus and taxi drivers, waitresses, etc. posters showed women were needed in war to win it. Women's Army Corps. did desk jobs and made things for the war. women saved food for men in Europe. WAVES- women's Navy-did desk work, answering phones, etc. WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots-transports planes to an area, test planes. Tokyo Rose- U.S citizen in Japan- forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan, in radio station, taunted the troops and played music from home, convicted of treason.
3. African-American's role in WWII- weren't given the right to fight right away, just built things and in factories, but eventually got the right to fight, but segragated into only black units.
4. Asian's role in WWII- faced segregation almost worse than blacks, worked in factories and fought in segregated units.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII- tried to get people to buy war bonds, tried to make people positive about the war, and show the Axis powers as bad. mainly to get the public to support the war and to get them to do their part in the war. made WWII movies during WWII like Wake Island and Casablanca. Actors like Bob Hope and John Wayne.
6. Office of Price Administration- set up in 1941 to administer price controls and rational food. food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat; clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon, gasoline (4-5 gallons a week). A sticker most people(4gallons) B sticker(war workers) C sticker(vital occupation like doctors) B and C got more gas. Black market set up to get stickers illegally, many arrest for illegal activity and thousands of gas stations closed. put had to stand in lines to wait for food and they had to go sometimes without food.
7. War Production Board- gov't organization to encourage businesses to make as many productions as they could.
8. National War Labor Board- tried to bring workers and owners together to help businesses make as many products as possible by encouraging them to not go on strike and owners to pay workers decently.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war- made all the supplies, women, minorites. keeping the war positve through movies, propaganda. rationing and not buying as much food.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats- speed, built ships that were faster and could move better than a U-boat. intercepting messages about where U-boats are. travel in groups, power of numbers.* we could intercept and deciefer Axis messages. RADAR detected vessels and aircraft aboce surface, HF/DF used to detect submarines, etc. worked with Great Britain. Enigma was Germany used to send out their codes. by deciefering this, we were able to avoid u-boats.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic- Allied leaders shared code-breaking secrets known as "very special intelligence" and classified under cover-names like ULTRA and MAGIC *above
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)- Lebensraum, wanted Ukraine for farmland, despised the ehtnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevil" masters. use people in Soviet Union as slave labor. the defeat of USSR would further isolate the Allies, wanted oilfields in Caucasus mountains, didn't trust Stalin, German propaganda showed Stalin was planning to attack Germany, the Western Front fighting was over (except GB). greatest land war in recorded history. 3:30 a.m Summer 1941. main front would eventually expand to 1490 miles and extend to a depth of over 600 miles. In the Soviet Union marcher the best of the German Army(4.5 million), amounting to three quarters of its field strength. millions Soviet Union died and millions captive. at on etime the Germans occupied some 900,00 square miles of Soviet territories. Goal: take Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow. In winter of 1942 Soviet Union fight back (operation winter storm)
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley; Marshall Chief of Staff of US military during WWII
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 WWII- women, minorities, Henry Kaiser had the company who built ship and we had more ships than all the countries combined. War bonds-lend money to gov't to help with war.
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