US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
First peacetime draft in US history. Passed in 1940 and was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter-women labor poster. Worked in factories and farmed because the men were over seas fighting. Preformed men jobs. Made war materials. Red Cross and older military organizations. Tested airplanes but didn't fight or drop bombs. Many worked in the military but did not in the front line.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Many black men volunteered. They were separated from the whites and were thought to of as not as good so most were cooks or other less menial jobs. Most famous were the Tuskegee Airmen. Worked at factories and on farms.
4. Asian's role in WWII
If they didn't fight they stayed at home and worked on farms and in factories. Wore badges to show that they were from the US. Were translators.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Made videos that illistrated hate to Germany. Bob Hope- born in Britian and was a great American comedian. USO: United Service Organization-tried to entertain American troops, propoganda, entertain people back home and get their mind off of the war, inspire people to do their part in the war, and there were news reels before movies instead of previews. USO presented performances with people like: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, The Marx Brothers, The Rockettes, Mickey Rooney, and most famously Bob Hope.
6. Office of Price Administration
Established in 1941 to administer price controls. 8,000 rationing borads 200,000 volunteers to assist 60,000 employees of the agency. Restrictions on sugar and meat; clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon. Gas rationing started May 1942 on the East Coast, 5 gallons per week. Stickers A-4 gal wk, B-war workers, C-doctor, and T-truckers. Black markets for gas stickers and gas.
7. War Production Board
MINE
8. National War Labor Board
Started in WWl. Designed to keep people from going on strike, having all people work together. Together we win.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
Rationed a lot of food and other war materials. Normal industries changed to war industries. Women working in factories. Hollywood insired more people to dislike the Germans.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
Sank thousands of allies ships. We built faster ships that would get away from them. Use of Ultra. HFDF-being able to detect things under water. Convoy System-travel in big numbers (can't take out all of them) Germans used wolf pack with U-boats to counter this. Depth charges and aircrafts like the Hunter-Killer that were used to attack U-boats.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Ultra- British name to decode German's messaging code. Knew what Germans were going and doing because we were desyphered their codes. Bombe-machine that desyphered German codes. Capitalists- people who desyphere the code. Magic- Allies forces that the US desyphere Japan codes.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
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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