Today we continued the Blog Discussion
War Bonds were the way we paid for the war.
7. War Production Board
- Established in 1942 by FDR
- It was to make sure that they kept up with production of goods
- Automobile Factories would start making tanks
8. National War Labor Board
- It was set up to get the workers and company owners to work together.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- Women worked
- Factories manufactured lots of goods
- Rationing goods
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- U-boats were sudmarines
- We had more ships (faster)
- We changed codes so they couldn't know where we were and when we were there
- Convoy system- large groups of ships
- Radar- we could see where the German U-boats were so we could avoid them
- Huff Duff- radio frequencys from the U-boats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Ultra was reading German codes (Mostly done by Britain)
- We could read Germany's codes
- Made us able to know when and where they were going to attack
- Magic was reading Japan codes (Mostly done by US)
- The Bombe helped decifer the codes (Super computer)
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
- Hitler ordered troops to surround Leningrad and cut off supplies
- Invaded Stalingrad
- Largest military battle in history
- Wanted to invade and conquer to have a place for pure Germans to live
- wanted farmland and oil
- He didn't like Stalin or Communists
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
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