Tuesday, March 27th

1. Selective Training and Service Act

  • allowed people at age 18 to draft for the war
  • First peacetime draft in US History
  • Used until 1973 to fill miltary needs
  • After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs

 

2. Women's role in WWII

  • Factory work back home
  • Nurses
  • Rosie the Riveter
    • Represented women workers in WW2
  • Sales ladies, bus drivers, farmers, messengers, conductors
  • WASP- Womens Army Service Pilots

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

  • Not seen as equal
  • Not able to fight in the front line
  • Cooks, janitors,
  • Tuskegee Airmen

 

4. Asian's role in WWII

  •  Forced from their homes
  • volunteered to serve for the US
  • They had to wear tags to let people know that they were Japanese- American solider
  • They also helped in factories back home

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

  • Bob Hope and Looney Tones
  • Kept the troops entertained

 

6. Office of Price Administration

  • Adminstration set up by FDR-
  • Rationing on products like food, gas-- it said never spend money until it was been ration
  • 1941 to adminster price controls 

7. War Production Board

  • Keep up with the production of goods for WW2

 

8. National War Labor Board

  • To keep employers and employees from agruing so the employees wouldnt go on strike

 

9. Why the Homefront helped win the war

  • women helped a lot back homes in factories
  • Holloywood, by helping keeping the war positive

 

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

  • U-Boats- submarines
  • Adding new weapons and make ships at a quicker rate
  • Changed our naval code so germany wouldnt know where we were
  • Built faster ships
  • Convoy System-
  • We used radar, HF/Df ( locate enemies under the surface).,

 

11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic

  •  Behind the scenes
  • Broke their codes
  • Ultra was the name for the British
  • Magic was done by the United States
  • A big reason we won the won

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)

  • Largest military operation in WW2
  • Germany invasion of Soviet Union
  • The russian army killed 64000 resistants
  • Lebensraum
  • Despired the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Bolshevik" masters
  • Wanted Ukraine for the farmland
  • Could use the people as slave labor
  • the defeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies

 

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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