Gone the last couple days. We have been doing blog discussions I am going to barrow alex's notes.
The US Homefront-Where the families of soldiers live. Back home to help war effort.
- Women's role- Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WWII. Women took over jobs after the men left for war. Limited in roles during WWII. Women gave jobs up when the men came back from war. Nurses, farmers, waitresses, time keepers, messangers, teachers, conductors, searchlight operators. Women's army core. allowed women into the army and do about everything except combat. WAVES-women's navy WASP-womens army service pilot.
- Factories-War Production Board: making things. Encouraging mass production of goods. Had more materials than the axis powers. National War Labor Board-together we win, owner and worker shaking hands. Owners dont want workers to go on strike. Work together, we will win.
- War bonds-how we paid for the war. every person sees how much they are worth. is an investment. giving the government moneya nd down the road make the money back with interest. Posters and songs were trying to get people to buy war bonds.
- Japanese relocation camps- put the japanese into camps because they could have been spies. They were American citizens. forced to sell belongings. Sent to camps. Most camps in desert areas. Some died in these camps. Kids went to school, adults were given jobs and paid. Were told for their own safty but we didnt trust them.
- Propaganda-urgency. can be done in posters, movies, songs, or music. a lot aimed to get people to buy war bonds, enlist in the army, made the U.S look good and the germans bad, to do our part. important to keep the people behind the war effort.
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration- was a controled distribution of scarce food sources and services. Had a set amount. example: food, clothing, gasoline, everyday thigns that we need. Started because make sure everyone had enough, concerned about the weathy people buying and selling it for a profit. Everyone got a rationing stamps. Cant share stamps, used coupon type books. Black market developed.
- Hollywood in WWII- tied in with propaganda. Bob Hope started the USO tour to entertain the soldiers. Still around today. Made germany and japan look bad, and the US look good (we are the best). Designed to convince people to do their part. It was an escape for people-troops too.
- The story of "Kilroy was here"- graffitti. comes from britian. way of complaining about rationing.
US Fighting:
-US in Africa-Took place in North Africa. Countries-Egypt, Morracco, Lybia, Algeria. Axis: Italy, Germany, Vichy-France. Allies: U.S, Great Britian, Free French. A lot of resources in Africa that Italy had control of. We wanted control to stop Italy. Start in 1940-1943. Operation Torch-we invaded two cities to gain control of. Sent troops and the cities were not expecting and took over easily. First area that the US invaded. November 8th 1942. Italy and Germany surrendered. Opened the door to invade Italy. Liked a D-day invasion. Desert Fox-Erwin Rommel. Put to death by having his name associated with an assasination of Hitler. George Patton-U.S general. General in Africa and D-Day. Died in a car accident.
-US in Italy- Moved into Sicily, which is an island. Very bloody. Casulaties in the 300,000 for both sides. Battling the Germans. The government of Italy surrendered in September 1943. Free from German forces in 1945. Made it tough fighting because of the mountains. Italy was weaker than France. Churchill called Italy the soft spot of the axis powers. Became part of the allied powers after invasion. Not totally allied until the Germans were forced out.
-D-Day- Name use for the invasion of normandy. Allied invaded france which germany had controlled. The attack had to be close to a full moon. Supposed to happen on the 5 but delayed tohttps://mrbruns.ning.com/profiles/blog/new the 6. We didnt postpone the date any further on the fear that hitler would find out. We had been giving out false info for an attack. Hitler had moved his forces to the false attack site so there were not as many soldiers at normandy and the other beaches. Largest infibious attack in history. Attack started the night before with paratroopers going behind the lines to do some damage. Countries involved were Canada, US, Free French, UK, and some other smaller European countries. Invastion lasted roughly a month. US lost about three thousand people. beginning of the end for germany. IKE PATTON BRADLey Generals during the invasion
-US bombing of Germany- US airforce joined with Royal airforce to bomb germany. Most famous bombing was the bombing of dresden. Most common bombing were inceniary bombs. Bombs usually didn't reach intended target. Caused alot of damage to them. Didn't bomb the railroad lines carring jews because it was not a military objectives
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering-Started with Hitler comitting suicide. With no leader the Germany and the other countries around it surrendered. They signed the instrument of surrender. Had to sign it two different times with different members of the allies present. Surrender was unconditional. May 8 1945. Allied split up Germany East and West germany.
-Battle of Coral Sea
-Battle of Midway
-Battle of Iwo Jima
-Battle of the Philippines
-Battle of Okinawa
-Hiroshima bombing
-Nagasaki bombing
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering
-Yalta Conference
-Potsdam Conference
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