Tuesday April 3rd

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 volunteers to fill needs

2. Women's role in WWII

Women started working and like helping out the war so they did the factory work
Womens most important role was to become a nurse
They also did a lot of secreterial work
WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots

3. African-American's role in WWII

2.5 millions AA's registered for the draft
But they were still segregated
They weren't able to fight on the front lines and were given the jobs of janitors and cooks.

4. Asian's role in WWII

After Pearl Harbor the Japanese were forced from their home into camps.
Many Japanese born Americans gave a chance to show their loyalty
They had to wear tags to show they were Asian
3/4 of Chinese weren't segregated

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

mine

6. Office of Price Administration

mine

7. War Production Board

The War Production board was established in 1942 to make sure they had enough supplies for WWII

8. National War Labor Board

Was created in 1942 to stop argument between employers and employees to keep things moving

9. Why the Homefront helped win the war

DIfferent administrations were set up and the women took rolls in the factories.
People cut back on what they used.

10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats

We kept adding navy advancements and making a lot of ships to replenish the fleet. Then we changed our navy code.
We used the convoy system. In the middle would be good ships surrounded by war ships.
We used RADAR, HFDF (used to locate enemy radio below the surface.)
ULTRA decifering German Code
WE had airplanes designed to go after teh UBOATS anad UBOATS only

11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic

We decifered german enscriptions. These messages were sent out throughout the world. The Italian Maffia would also spy for the US.

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany) Leningrad, Moscow Stalingrad

It was the largest military operation in history and the only supply route through the lake so many people died because of the cold and lack of supplies. The Red Army went through Leningrad and killed 640,000 civillians. In Stalengrad German ran out of ammuniton.
Hitler invaded USSR because he wanted Ukraine, could use the people as slave labor, the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies, wantedthe oilfields in the Caucasus mountains, didn't trust Stalin-German propaganda showed that Stalin was planning to attack German, the Western Front fighting was over except for Great Britain.
Greatest land war in recorded history
The main front would eventually expand to 1490 miles and extend to a depth of over 600 miles
.5 million Germans died. This battle infuriorated him.
Hitler never invaded Leningrad but he did a siege

13. Battle in Africa and Italy

Started May 11, 1942 which wanted to get control of Morocco with Project Torch. They did get control of Morocco, and to Tenesia which had Axis power troops in it.
Erwin Rommel was Nazi Germany's General
Italy: US Great Britain and Canada invaded Cicily...the allies won but the troops from theAxis were able to withdraw.

14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley

Marshall was a American General, Churchill named him organizer of victory and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Eisenhower was a 5 star general and teh supreme commander to the allies in WWII
Patten was in service before WWI-1945. He fought in Africa and in the DDAY invasion
MacArthur was a chief of staff of the US army and was in charge in the Pacific and recieved medal of honor.
Nimitz thought that he was going to a officer but he ended up being a navy officer.
Bradley fought against the germans

15. D-Day-Operation Overlord

Started in France, allied invasion of Nazi controlled France. The assault was conducted in two phases. The first phase was an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Free Frenchairborne troops shortly after midnigh. The second phase was an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the cost of France starting at 6:30 AM. There were also decoy operations to distract the German forces from te real landing areas. The operation was the largest amphibious invasion in World History with over 160,000 troops. Roughly 10,000 allied casulaties (6600 US)
Before DDAY an extensive system of coastal fortification buily by Germany.

16. Battle of the Bulge

The battle of the Bulge was the largest and costliest battle for the United State and it was Germany's last offensive in the Western Fronts. It was initially succesful but ended up failing. Over a million men involved combined on both sides

17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over

FDR had polio. He also found out he had major problems. One day he became unconcious and died of a stroke. FDR was just starting his 4th term
Truman was in the military. After he became president and was in charge of dropping the bombs.

18. VE Day

Victory in Europe day. When the axis powers surrendered May 8th 1945

19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,

Island Hopping was when we would go to island to island to have bases and places to retreat to ad for stations.
The Philippines: Bataan death march was when US Troops and Phillipines were forced to march 60 miles without water or food. The fifthe of 5 major confrontations. WE won
The battle of coral sea was a victorry for the US. If Japan would have won, they would have taken Australlia. It was the first time Japan didn't win.
Midway was June 4th, 1942 was widely regarded as the most important naval battleagainst Jpan. The Japaese aimed to eliminate the US asastrategic power in the Pacific and believed a victory at Midway Island would do just that. US navy decisively defeated the Japanese Navy attack against Midway Island. Japn's navy suffered heavy losses and never reccovered from this battle. Magic played a vitl role in the Allied victory.
Guadalcanal was a long battle in the SOlomon Island Archipelago. The Guadalcanal campaign was significant strategic victory by allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theatre. Guadalcanal marked the transition by te allies from defensive operations to offensive that resultedin Japans eventual surrender and the end of WWII.
Iwo Jima was a offensive by the US and the Japenese were dug into the island. Approixmatley 6800 people died. It gave america hope by raising the flag.
Okinawa was a huge battle that had the most casulaties

20. Navajo Code Talkers

The navajo people made a code using the language and it was unbreakable because they didn't have a purpose to learn navajo before the war.

21. Doolittle's Raid

Was a bombing raid on Japan was more to raise moral by showing that we could fight back. We ended up flying over Japan and bombed them and none of the aircraft made it back. It was very succesful and many raids were to follow.

22. Manhattan Project

The making of the atomic bomb, the first. They figured that Germany was going to make a bomb and we wanted to get it first. It started in Mnhattan. They used these bombs in Hiroshima and Nagaskai. Leslie Groves was put in charge. The scientist in charge was J Robert Oppenheimer.

23. Hiroshima bombing

This was the first place we used atomic bomb. 80,000 people died instantly. Turned up that 90% of the city's population was wiped out. The bomb was called Little Boy.August 6th, 1945

24. Nagasaki bombing

August 9th it was not intended to be the second bombing the real target was covered. 13 seconds after a all clear was sent by Japanese government the bomb dropped.

25. VJ Day

Victory in Japan day August 14th 1945.

26. Yalta Conference

It was a conference where the heads of state of the allies came to talk about Europe after WWII. Germany would be broken into four occupation zones. Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe but failed and it became communist. Stalin promised to oin the war against Japan after war with Germany was over. FDR also promised to have a conference at San Francisco to set up the UN, and that NAZIS would be caught and prosecuted for criminal charges.

27. Nuremburg Trials

Prosecution of Nazi officials for their war crimes

28. Japanese Internment Camps in US

Japanese were put into camps but they weren't beaten or killed seperating them from the concentration camps.

29. GI Bill of Rights

Designed to helps the armymen transition back to normal everyday life

30. Why did the allies win the war

Magic, Ultra, and Navajo code talkers.
Better technology
More natural resources and a better ability to use the natural resources into supplies
HITLERS MISTAKES: invading the soviet union, over extended his troops, declaring war on the US, he taking over the military
We had more troops

THEN WE ASSIGNED OUT THE LAST ASSIGNED BLOG OF THE YEAR COLD WAR PROJECT

My topic was 16. Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty- what they accomplished at their meetings.

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