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
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6. Office of Price Administration
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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)
- 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.
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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