WWII NOTES
1. Selective Training and Service Act 1940
- Allowed people who were 18 to join the Military
- Instituted drafts
- Fist peacetime draft in US history- because we were not in the war yet
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs- after Vietnam
- after 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
- Women started working
- Each military had a womens division, they worked in the military as nurses
- Traditionally just stayed at home, and were thought not to be as strong as men - worked in factories, red cross,farm workers, waitress, teachers, bus drivers, messengers, laundresses, typists, conductors, jobs that men traditionally had -Rosie The riveter-represented working women- used in propaganda
- Waves- woman's navy- many worked in the military, not directly but in training, testing, etc
- womens army corp.-photographers etc.
- WASP-womens army service pilots-test aircrafts
3. African-American's role in WWII
- many registered for the draft
- They were segregated
- were not able to fight they thought they could not handle it
- many of them volunteered to fight in ww2, they fought pretty good, the were segregated because they thought that they could not fight as well.
- Tuskegee Airmen- were the most famous- great bombing campaigns, showed that African American were good fighters, they really proved themselves in ww2
4. Asian's role in WWII
- After the Pearl Harbor many were forced from their homes
- many volunteered for the U.S., they had to wear tags so peaple know that they were Japanese American soldiers, that way they would be thought to be original Japanese soldiers.
- If they did not fight they would stay at home and work in factories, and stuff.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Started making a lot of movies showing how bad the German's were- Propaganda--Looney Tunes
- Bob hope- he worked with the U.S.O to help the troops to entertain the troop- no profit, still around today, since 1941--died in 2003.
- from 1941 to 1947 the USO presented more than 400,000 performances featuring many entertainers-Lucille Ball, John Wayne, Bing Croby, etc.
6. Office of Price Administration
- Administration set up by FDR
- Set up how much people were Legally supposed to buy in order to give our troops enough food
- USO-United Service Organiation-entertaining the troops --propaganda
- Ration food-never buy rationed food without ration stamps
- WWII was the last time the US rationed
- silk and nylon were rationed
- gas was rationed-4 gallons per week per family
- Black Market--get a b sticker instead of a sticker
- some people were arrested for false stickers
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- we bulit faster ships
-ultra- is another way we fought back. to fight german.. stay out where it said they were.
- convoy system, went in big groups. they couldnt get all groups
- we used radar
- we used HFAF helped us know where submaries are ( huff duff)
- Enigma was machine that germany used to transfer codes
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
-lebestraum
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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
29. Why did the Allies win WWII?
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