Divvied out cold war projects. I got Effects of the Soviets invasion of Afganistan
talk about what we did because of it, a little about the invasion
visuals, 3 sources, creative, speak up
Blog discussions
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- passed in 1940
- first draft in us history
2. Women's role in WWII
- women took over making of food, war supplies, buisnesses
- test airplaines
- secretaries
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought/ worked in factories
4. Asian's role in WWII
- fought/ worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- made holocost movie which forced hate torwards natzi's
- entertained troops and homefront
- propaganda
6. Office of Price Administration
- rationing to save food, gas: different types of stickers for what job you have
7. War Production Board
- Started by FDR
- produce war materials- ammo
- rationing
8. National War Labor Board
- started in ww1
- we needed production
- save efforts of labor until after the war
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- supplies and food
- weapons
- positive
- rationing
- women
- hollywood
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- they knew where they were via ultra and magic
- speed
- hf-df radar
- depth chargers and hunter killers
11. Intelligece gathering--Ultra/Magic
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Hitlers biggest mistake
- biggest invasion in history
- million of men died
- hitler wanted resources and a place for arians
- oil fields
- defeat of ussr would isolate allies
- stallingrad, leningrad, moskow
- russia turned to canibalism for 872 days because germany cut them off from leningrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Tank warfare
- First area where we started fighting
- Erwin Rommel- Desert Fox
- out witted us
- Operation Torch- the british-american ivasion of french north africa
- 1943 defeated north africa
- moved up to Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
- Marshall- chief of us military
- MacArthur- us army general against japan
- Patton- Africa against Rommel
- Eisenhower- Eupoean general, in charge of D-Day invasion
- Nimitz- us navy general against japan
- Bradley- Operation Overlord- germany
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
- When we invaded France from Germany
16. Battle of the Bulge
- Belgium
- Hitlers last attempt to defeat allies
- huge offensive
- tried to get to the sea thinking that we would give up if they got to the sea
- coldest snowiest war
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
- fdr died of a stroke
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
- kill 300.000 between the two bombs
- saved us from having to invade japan and actually saved a lot of lives
- radiation effected many others afterward 70,000 more died later
- bomb "little boy"
- no plane could carry these bombs so they had to make new planes
24. Nagasaki bombing
- bomb called "fat man
- they couldn't see their target cause of clouds so they missed it a little
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
- Germany would be broken into four
- Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe
- Stalin promised to join war with Japan as soon as their war with Germany was over
- Set up conference in San Francisco to up United Nations
27. Nuremburg Trials
Trials held in Germany for the Natzi generals
many of them were killed or put in jail
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
- thought that Japanese americans would be helping japan in the war against us
- we put them in camps and gave them jobs and education
29. GI Bill of Rights
To help the members of the Armed Forces adjust to civilian life after seperation
To give those who cannot afford a high
30. why did the allies win ww2?
- resources
- the atomic bombs
- more coutries and troops
- mass production
- ultra magic and navajo code talkers
- hitlers mistakes (fighting in too many places)
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