wednesday, march 28

1.Selective Training and service Act - 1940

-first peacetime draft in US history
-used until 1973 to fill military needs
-after 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
 
2.Woman in WWII

-they worked like nurses helping the soldiers
- work in factory

3. African-American's role in WWII

- black woman worked in factory
-volunteer to fight

4. Asian's role in WWII

-Had to wear a button so people knew they were US citizens
-Farmers and fought

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

-Made cartoons and movies to help war efforts and to have people donate money for the war efforts
-Bob Hope famous comedian, sang, and danced and he would entertain the troops
-The USO- United Service Organization none profit organization that entertains the troops

6. Office of Price Administration

-OPA first to discover a ration book
-each family would get a ration book so they could spend what they needed not how much they wanted.

7. War Production Board

-Government organization that encuraged people to produce as much as possible
-mass production

8. National War Labor Board

-Woodrow Wilson made it and kept peace between workers so they didn't go on strike

9. How the US Homefront helped win the war

-mass production and women worked in factories so more men could fight

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

-depth charges and airplanes with destroyers, convoys

11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic

-Spies would go under cover to get info. from the enemy
-Code name for intersepting enemy codes
-Huff Duff sonar and radar
-Enigma: System Which Germany transferred their information through codes
-Bombe helped decode things

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)

-Germany attacked USSR with 3 million soldiers and 1.5 thousand tanks

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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