US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- First peacetime draft in US History
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs
- After 1973, US military depended on volenteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rossie the Rivetor gave women the idea that they can work hard and still look pretty
- The women were a very important cause for winning the war
- they worked in:
- factories
- hospitals (nurses)
- secrataries/typists
- farm workers
- bus/taxi drivers
- messengers
- teachers
- WAC-Women's Army Corps
- stay at home mom's canned food
- WAVES- Women's Navy
- WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought in the military
- some people tried to get it so that blacks and whites were not segregated
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Were drafted in war but had to wear a certian button to make sure that they didn't get them mixed up with Japs
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- provided a lot of comercials for the war
- movies on the war:
- destination Tokyo
- 30 sec over Tokyo
- Wake island
- the purple heart
- Cartoons were made
- USO- Untied Service Organizations Inc. in a private, non profit organization that provides entertainment to members of the US military since 1941
6. Office of Price Administration
- were the first to come up with ration books
- Rationing- you can only get so much and you couldn't get and over supply of things
- had ration stamps and if ran out you could not buy anything else for the rest of that week
- People had to wait in line for things that they wanted
- Horse meat was not rationed so people could buy as much as they wanted
- Black market was formed and their were a lot of people who bought illegal stickers to get more money
7. War Production Board
- keep producing stuff like metal and fuel
- produced a ton of materials like fuel
- used to stabilize our economy
- production of mass production
8. National War Labor Board
- created by Woodrow Wilson in WWI
- keep peace between employees in factories
- so they don't go on strike
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- mass production of goods
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats (German Submarines)
- the 10th fleet under the Navy did it
- had like 50 people in it
- planes would drop bombs
- Navy would use depth charges(kinda like torpedoes)
- wolfpacks - U-boats traveling in large groups
- how do we fight them?
- speed
- faster U-boats
- traveled in convoys (large groups)
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- the spies were gathering info
- most spies were British set up by Churchill
- used to fight off the Axis powers
- ULTRA/MAGIC were code names for us intercepting information
- use it to fight against U-boats too
- Enigma
- system in which Germany transferred their info thru codes
- solving the Enigma system remains one of the great Allied triumphs of WWII
- during periods when Allied crypt-analysts were unable to solve Enigma, U-boats cause great damage to Anglo-American commerce
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
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
Comments