Today we continued Mr Bruns powerpoint on WWII.. he encouraged people to get their assigned blog done this weekend so we arent so stressed out..
Test Questions:
US Homefront:-- what people are doing at home to help with the war
1. Selective Training and Service Ac
-1940; Roosevelt and Congress passed it in 1940; (drafting); First peacetime draft in US history; Used until 1973 to fill military needs; After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII:
--Rosie the Riveter-represented women workers in WWII, was the poster child for women who worked in factories--it really helped open up their rights--many women became nurses to help soldiers in the world...women would work as secretaries (would type up the letters to sent to families saying that "so and so" had died..women were also needed as: waitresses, time keepers, elevator operators, teachers, conductors, etc. Women were very vital in the war effort..women did not fight in the war..the Women's army corps did typing and desk jobs...--they made maps, developing pictures...WAVES-Women's Navy:each branch had their own version for military; WASP-Woment's Arm Service Pilots (test drive planes and get them from point A to point B)..."Tokyo Rose" (Iva Toguri)--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 a US citizen in Japan; convicted of treason-she tried to demoralize our troops...
3. African-American's role in WWII:
--African Americans were discriminated against, during WWII they were segregated as well as other races--they worked in factories if they didn't fight..otherwise they did fight in the war by being pilots......minorities played a significant role during WWII--they did everything that you would expect while still being discriminated against...
4. Asian's role in WWII:
They faced discrimination more than Blacks ever did. They fought in war, worked in factories ,and were pilots.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII:
Tried to get people to do their part in the war. Made a lot of movies about WWII. Bob Hope and the USO Tour was a comedian and they went over a entertained to troops. Singers and dancers also intertained the troops. Kilroy was here showed up everywhere. Its also showed up in other countries but with other names.
6. Office of Price Administration:
-OPA was set up in 1941 to deal with rationing of goods and price controls. Food rationing included restrictions on on sugar and meat. Gasoline was rationed to 5 gallons a week. Cars had certain stickers so people would know how many gallons each car could get. With rationing came lines people had to be patient they had to wait because they was such a limited amount of food.
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
- When the government comes together they join together to get the job done.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats:
Germany was sinking over a thousand ships. It was making it difficult for us to get things to Great Britian. Speed was important to be able to outrun a U boat attack. There were German people in France that were sending messages to the the U boats so we were able to intercept that information. This gave us a huge advantage to try and intercept there radio messages to figure out where they were located. We traveled in large groups so it was harder for the U boats to sink us.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic:
We knew what the enemy was doing. Huff duff allowed us to detect submarines underneath us. So we knew if they were coming after us from underneath. RADAR helped us detect vessels and aircraft above the surface. We found their book so we were able to decipher their military code that why we won. We knew what they were going to do. The enigma machine put what they said into code. Germany never found out that we were intercepting there messages and deciphering them. The bombe was the machine that translated the Germans codes into things we could understand. Depth charges were bombs that were sent under water mainly used to attack submarines.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Great Britian was being bombed every night by Germany and the Soviet Union. Hitler invaded the the soviet union because of Lebensraum. He hated the slovs and hated the communists/ jews. Hated the government. Hilter wanted the oilfields in the Cauasus moutains. Stalin and Hitler did not trust each other. Stalin said war with Germany was inevitable ( it was going to happen) Operation Barborossa was the hugest land war ever, lost huge amount of casualities. June 22nd 1941 was when Germany attacked the SU. By the end of the Barborossa war 4 million men had died. German Wehrmacht Army: Army Group North whose main goal was leningrad. Amry Group south was stalingraud, and Army group centre was Moscow. Taking these cities over was their goal.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-
Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Georger C. Marshall-Cheirf of Staff of the US Military during WWII. Head of everyone except the president.
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 the Allies win WWII--the women were the ones who made our weapons..so we had more weapons than other countries.--Henry Kaiser (owner of a ship building company)--by the end of the war, we were making more ships and everything else (war goods) than any of the other countries combined...Hollywood in WWII: Looney Tunes, Walt Disney movies--they made propaganda films and helped to get people to buy war bonds and boost moral...
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