Today was a blog discussion day.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- Allowed people who were 18 to go into the army.
- It was the draft and forced them to go.
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs.
- After 1973 U.S. millitary depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
- Started working.
- Nurses and non-combatent parts of the war.
- Rosie the Riveter- representted women workers in WWII.
- Typists, taxi drivers, teachers were other jobs had.
- WAVES- women's navy- radio operators.
- WASP- women's army service pilots- test planes
Tokyo Rose- forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan, convicted of treason.
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Registered for draft.
- Segragated units.
- Couldn't fight in the front line to begin with, they were cooks and janitors.
- Tuskegee Arimen- good bombers.
- If they couldn't fight, they had other roles in the homefront.
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Forced from their homes after Pearl Harbor.
- Japenese born in the U.S. volunteered to fight to regain trust.
- Had to wear tags.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Bob Hope- went over to Pacific Theater and entertained the troops.
- Loony Toons- entertained people and propaganda.
- Show news reels before movies.
6. Office of Price Administration
- Set up by FDR in 1941.
- Set up ration books and propaganda pieces.
- USO- United Service Org.- entertaining people of U.S.
- A sticker- 4 gallons of gas per week.
7. War Production Board
- Established in 1942 by FDR.
- Made sure there was enough supply for WWII.
8. National War Labor Board
- Set up in 1942 by FDR.
- Stop arguments and work together during war.
- Make sure workers wouldn't go on strike.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
- Women stepped up and took men's jobs.
- War production was high.
- Hollywood helped keep the war positive.
- Organizations that set up rationing and people cut back.
10. How U.S./Allies fought back against U-boats
- U.S. kept adding new weapons and new ships.
- Changed naval code so Germany wouldn't know where U.S. would be.
- U.S. knew what Germany was going to do.
- 1943- U.S. took down a lot of German U-boats.
- Built faster ships.
- Used Ultra to kept boats out of that area.
- Convoy System- go in large groups of ships, in middle would be ships with goods on them surrounded by fighting ships.
- Radar- HF/DF- used to locate sources of enemy radio transmissions such as subs.
- Bombe- super computer
- Hunter Killers- designed to go after U-boats.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- Decifered their codes.
- Ultra- Ultra secret.
- Say war was cut down from 4-2 years.
- Ultra- done by British decifered German codes.
- Magic- same as Ultra- U.S. used it to decifer Japanese codes.
12. Operation Barborossa (USSR vs Germany)
- Largest invasion in history.
- Most costly in history.
- Many causualties.
- Germany invaded Soviet Union.
- Invaded Stalingrad and surrounded Lenengrad.
- Red Army- Russian army.
- Germany went after Salingrad, Leningrad, and Moscow.
- Battle of Moscow-
- HItler believed Moscow was the major military and political target in the USSR as it would lead to the collapse of the country.
- Hitler was mad that they lost.
- He fired all the commander-in-chiefs and highered new unexperienced generals.
- Siege of Leningrad-
- Most destructive in history.
- After people ran out of food, they turned to canabolism.
- Soviet troops finally turned things around.
- Germany never got control.
- Leningrad never surrendered.
- Invaded Soviet Union-
- Lebensraum.
- Despised the ethnic Slavs ruled by their "Jewish Boleshevik" masters.
- Wanted Ukraine for farmland.
- Could use people as slave labor.
- Didn't trust Stalin.
- Wanted the oilfields in the Caucasus mountains.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
- Battle in Africa-
- Operation Torch- take over Morocco.
- Tunisian Campaign- German, Itailian, and Vichy French troops were in Tunisia.
- Erwin Rommel- The Desert Fox- later turned on Hitler.
- Bernard Montgomery- British general.
- George Patton- U.S. general.
- Jan. 1942- Casablanca Conference- Unconditional surrender- U.S. only wanted Germany to surrender this way.
- Battle of Italy-
- After Italy surrendered, they became an Allied power.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
- George C. Marshall- Chief of Staff of the U.S. Military during WWII.
- Dwight Eisenhower- 5 star general, supreme Allied power general- in charge of all Allied powers- D day invasion.
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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