US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-First draft in history.. younger people sent to war
2. Women's role in WWII
-played a huge role
-did factory work, were nurses..
3. African-American's role in WWII
-many were drafted
-the Tuskegee Airmen proved that they can fight and fly really well
4. Asian's role in WWII
-were discriminated against
-had to wear war tags
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-the USO was entertainment to the people
-Looney Tunes
6. Office of Price Administration
-establshed in 1941..by FDR
7. War Production Board
-made sure the work got done
8. National War Labor Board
-established by FDR, make sure work labor is smooth..
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-woman in the war.. factory work, nursing..
-Hollywood made the war positive..propganda
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
-the US sunk a lot of the boats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
-we used codes to intercept and desipher
-shorted war by 4ish years
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-Germany invaded the Soviet Union
-largest invasion in histroy..costly
-Leningrad, Stalingrad, Moscow
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-werte involved in operation torch--invasion of morocco
-got control of morocco
-tank warfare was popualar
-Italy was invaded by ships and airplanes
-Allies won
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
-Marshall..cheif of staff in US army
-Eisenhower..supreme allied commander
-Patton..officer, known for leadership, fought in Africa
MacArthur..general against Japan
Nimitz..was an admiral for the navy
Bradley..another famous general, was involved in D-Day
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
-when Allied troops on Omaha Beech
-operation overlord
-June 6, 1944
-about 10,000 allied casualties.. (6,600 US)
16. Battle of the Bulge
-very cold
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
-Truman was commander of itelery
18. VE Day
-Victory in Eourope day
-the day the Axis powers surrendered and the Allied powers celebrated
-May 8th, 1945
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Island Hopping-moving islands
-Phillippines..the Bataan Death March--march in extreme heat and lots of people died
Coral Sea..major naval battle between Japanese and Allied-important:first time japan didnt win
Midway..6 months after Pearl Harbor-Japan wanted to take control of the islands
Guadalcanal..located by Australia..first battle where US took offensive
Iwo Jima..was on some islands-hard battle for us
Okinawa..similiar to Iwo Jima..on islands again..
20. Navajo Code Talkers
-young people working on a code to use communication
21. Doolittle's Raid
-a bombing run on Japan..it helped out our morole
22. Manhattan Project
-80,000 people died..90% of pop
-bomb called "little boy"
23. Hiroshima bombing
-made of uranium
24. Nagasaki bombing
-name was "fat man"
-did less damage than the Hiroshima bombing did
25. VJ Day
-victory in japan day when japan surrendered
-august 14th, 1945
26. Yalta Conference
-Germany would be broken into 4 zones (US, GB, France, USSR)
-had a confrence to set up the United Nations
27. Nuremburg Trials
-people were sentence to death
-Nazis were in this thing
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
-were not like death camps
29. Why did we win?
-we broke the Japanese code.. and they didn't decode the Navajo Code
-better technology..atmoic bomb
-we had TON of natural resources
-war production was very high!
30. GI Bill of Rights
-helped transition back to every day life
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