1. Selective Training and Service Act
peacetime draft
used till 1973
after 73 military depended on volunteers
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter
Women in the work force
Factories
Nurses
couldnt win without them
Farmers and a lot of others
women's division
3. African-American's role in WWII
1/2 million served in britan... werent allowed on front lines..
fought valiantly
4. Asian's role in WWII
werent drafted but volunteered
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
big stars enlisted
propoganda
heritage
USO
Bob Hope
Judy Garland
Marx Brothers
Lucille Ball
Pin-Up Girls
WWII made During WWII
6. Office of Price Administration
they maintained prices of household products
limited how much people could buy
stamps
41
7. War Production Board
regulates production of american supplies
rationed things
expand and change businesses to meet wartime needs
8. National War Labor Board
more rights for workers
8 hour days
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
produced lots of goods
Women
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
subs
Convoy system
germans singled out merchant ships
british changed codes
Radar
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Magic - Code Decipher
translation
YaY
Ultra Was British Decipher
False info
Espionage
HF/DF
Eigma - Transmit German Messages
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Summer 1941
Hitler Got Bored
Lebensraum
Slave Labor
Farmland
oil Feilds
Paranoid
western front was over
millions dead
U.S. never invaded
Hitler took over military
Cannablism
Death, Death, and more Death
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Morocco
Erwin Rommel
Casablanca Conference
Shoved to the Side
Britain U.S. Canada
Italy surrendered
Became our ally
Italy is forgotten
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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