Test tomorrow-over all the home front stuff below. test will be two days. Group Test. Checkout power points for further information.
The US Homefront-Where the families of soldiers live. Back home to help war effort.
- Women's role- Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WWII. Women took over jobs after the men left for war. Limited in roles during WWII. Women gave jobs up when the men came back from war. Nurses, farmers, waitresses, time keepers, messangers, teachers, conductors, searchlight operators. Women's army core. allowed women into the army and do about everything except combat. WAVES-women's navy WASP-womens army service pilot.
- Factories-War Production Board: making things. Encouraging mass production of goods. Had more materials than the axis powers. National War Labor Board-together we win, owner and worker shaking hands. Owners dont want workers to go on strike. Work together, we will win.
- War bonds-how we paid for the war. every person sees how much they are worth. is an investment. giving the government moneya nd down the road make the money back with interest. Posters and songs were trying to get people to buy war bonds.
- Japanese relocation camps- put the japanese into camps because they could have been spies. They were American citizens. forced to sell belongings. Sent to camps. Most camps in desert areas. Some died in these camps. Kids went to school, adults were given jobs and paid. Were told for their own safty but we didnt trust them.
- Propaganda-urgency. can be done in posters, movies, songs, or music. a lot aimed to get people to buy war bonds, enlist in the army, made the U.S look good and the germans bad, to do our part. important to keep the people behind the war effort.
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration- was a controled distribution of scarce food sources and services. Had a set amount. example: food, clothing, gasoline, everyday thigns that we need. Started because make sure everyone had enough, concerned about the weathy people buying and selling it for a profit. Everyone got a rationing stamps. Cant share stamps, used coupon type books. Black market developed.
- Hollywood in WWII- tied in with propaganda. Bob Hope started the USO tour to entertain the soldiers. Still around today. Made germany and japan look bad, and the US look good (we are the best). Designed to convince people to do their part. It was an escape for people-troops too. Made a lot of anti-Natzi war films. MAJOR Role-making the movies to inform the people/Propaganda
- The story of "Kilroy was here"- graffitti. comes from britian. way of complaining about rationing.
US Fighting:
-US in Africa-Took place in North Africa. Countries-Egypt, Morracco, Lybia, Algeria. Axis: Italy, Germany, Vichy-France. Allies: U.S, Great Britian, Free French. A lot of resources in Africa that Italy had control of. We wanted control to stop Italy. Start in 1940-1943. Operation Torch-we invaded two cities to gain control of. Sent troops and the cities were not expecting and took over easily. First area that the US invaded. November 8th 1942. Italy and Germany surrendered. Opened the door to invade Italy. Liked a D-day invasion. Desert Fox-Erwin Rommel. Put to death by having his name associated with an assasination of Hitler. George Patton-U.S general. General in Africa and D-Day. Died in a car accident.
-US in Italy- Moved into Sicily, which is an island. Very bloody. Casulaties in the 300,000 for both sides. Battling the Germans. The government of Italy surrendered in September 1943. Free from German forces in 1945. Made it tough fighting because of the mountains. Italy was weaker than France. Churchill called Italy the soft spot of the axis powers. Became part of the allied powers after invasion. Not totally allied until the Germans were forced out.
-D-Day- Name use for the invasion of normandy. Allied invaded france which germany had controlled. The attack had to be close to a full moon. Supposed to happen on the 5 but delayed tohttps://mrbruns.ning.com/profiles/blog/new the 6. We didnt postpone the date any further on the fear that hitler would find out. We had been giving out false info for an attack. Hitler had moved his forces to the false attack site so there were not as many soldiers at normandy and the other beaches. Largest infibious attack in history. Attack started the night before with paratroopers going behind the lines to do some damage. Countries involved were Canada, US, Free French, UK, and some other smaller European countries. Invastion lasted roughly a month. US lost about three thousand people. beginning of the end for germany. IKE PATTON BRADLey Generals during the invasion
-US bombing of Germany- US airforce joined with Royal airforce to bomb germany. Most famous bombing was the bombing of dresden. Most common bombing were inceniary bombs. Bombs usually didn't reach intended target. Caused alot of damage to them. Didn't bomb the railroad lines carring jews because it was not a military objectives
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering-Started with Hitler comitting suicide. With no leader the Germany and the other countries around it surrendered. They signed the instrument of surrender. Had to sign it two different times with different members of the allies present. Surrender was unconditional. May 8 1945. Allied split up Germany East and West germany.
-Fight against Japan--island hopping- take big island skip smaller take big skip
Names to remember Patton, Esignhower, D-day- Chester Nimitz-head of the Navy
-Battle of Coral Sea-Check out blog #5 Assigned Blog #5- Battle of Coral Sea- ended in a draw-in other words we won-first battle fought completely on water
-Battle of Midway-Saved hawaii from being over run- most famous battle in the Pacific war. Month after Coral Sea. Midway Volcanic island. Knew this attack was coming due to MAGIC. We destroyed them. Major turing point for us. We won. Beginning of the end for Japan. After midway we destroyed more planes than they could make.
Kamikaze- Divine wind.- Strap bombs and run planes into ships.
-Battle of Iwo Jima-beautiful island-month long battle. bloodiest battle in the pacific. losts alot of men 22 thousand japanese on island only we only had a fewhundred prisoners. Island was really small had three different airfields. Japan let us come on shore. They were dug in. Raising the flag is the most famous memory of Iwo jima. about 7000 people died
-Battle of the Philippines-Us territory taken over by Japan. Douglas MacArthur General on the Philippines. Pow camps were terrible, prisioners were treated horribly. Not an easy battle. MacArthur returned to the philippines like he promised
-Battle of Okinawa- lasted 82 days in 45. called the typhoon of steel. really bloody battle Japs lost over 150,000 men. First island that was actually part of japan. Had a battle ship Yamada that was the worlds largest battle ship at the time was destroyed.
Manhattan Project-code name for the development of the atomic bomb. General Lesly Groves in charge of the operation. Not happy about it at first. Incharge of findiing the scientiest. He found Oppenheimer who was a communist also in charge. Los Alamos-place where we developed it. Caus Fuse was the communist spy not oppenheimer. Bomb was codenamed the Gaget. Very very top secret.
Alamogordo, New Mexico- place of the detonation of the prototype bomb. codenamed Trinity. First atomic bomb exploded in history. Said that it was an explosion of an ammunition dump. Turned the desert around the explosion into glass because it was soo hot
-Hiroshima bombing-B-29 super fortrist was a plain that was developed to carry the bomb. Paul Tibbits was the piolet of the plain. Bomb was code named Little bomb. urainium 235 bomb smaller than the nagasiki bomb. Most of the city was impacted by fire. 89% of the doctors and nurses were killed. water mains broke. Alot of people died from the fires. Developed to explode before it hit he ground. The targeted bridge survived the explosion. Not as many good pictures of this. Buildings badly damaged. People burned to death. Atomic Shadows. Burned people would die from ifection. 150,000 people died later from radiation sickness.
-Nagasaki bombing-Bomb called the Fat Man, was a platanium bomb. Happened in 45. 20000 tons of explosions. Mountians stopped part of the blast which saved some lives. This bombing was concidered a mistake, they couldnt see their target, so they had to drop it Nagasaki, but it does the job. We had to make sure not to hit any religious cities, we wanted them to be military places. One of the plains were called Boxcar and the piolet was called Chuck sweeny. Within a couple of days the war ended
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering- August 14-15 1945. Japan surrendered to us. He got on the radio and talked to his people. Signed the treaty on september 2
-- Europe turned was broken into two parts. East and West
-Yalta Conference-Compromises- February 1945- Germany would be broken into four zones of occupaions (US,GB,France,USSR). Soviet zone was west germany. the others were east germany. Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe, Stalin joined the war against Japan (after we bombed hiroshima) , have a conference to set up the United Nations.
-Potsdam Conference-Compromises-July 1945- Truman was president at time. Temporarily Divide Bietnam. Communist north Democratic south. Most of the Conference talked about Germany. Goals-Demilitarize country, denazifi it, make it a democracy. Have war crime trials. Give all the land back that Germany took over. They would loose 25% of their land, they would payback Soviet union.
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