Selective Training and Service Act 1940
- first peacetime draft in us history (we were not at war)
- used until 1973 to fill military needs
- After 1973 US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
- basically forcing people to join the military
Women in WWII
- women can help the war by working in the factories
- Rosie The Riveter- represented women workers in WWII
- they could do a lot more than working in the home
- women also were nurses to soldiers
- Waitresses, time keepers, elevator operators, teachers...
- every branch in the gov, had a section for women
- WAVES- womens navy
- WASP- womens army service pilots
- African American women also worked in factories
African- Americans In WWII
- half a million served in europe
- not allowed white soldiers
USO- United Service Organizations
- provided entertainment for the soldiers in the war
- presented performances all over the world to troops
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War Production Board
- regulates America's supplies and puts limits on supplies
- rationed things they needed for the war
National War Labor Board
- helped workers get more rights in the eight hour day
How the US homefront help win the war
- we made so many products that helped the war
- women, africans, asians helped a lot
- hollywood played important role in keeping spirits up
How we Fought Back
- Convoy System- german U boats would go out and single out merchant ships going to GB with supplies and get them down with battle ships
- british changed the codes halfway through so the germans couldn't decipher it
- through the use of sonar we would figure out where german u boats were and we would avoid them
--Intelligence Gathering
- magic was for US and it was for deciphering japan's codes and evaluate the message
- we knew what they were doing
- ultra was the british decipherer same thing as magic-- germany's messages
- we gave germany false info. on D-Day
- Allied Inteligence was top secret
- Enigma- germany transfered messages through codes
- we also had weapons that would go after german u boats
- depth charges
Operation Barbarosa
- Why did hitler invade the soviet union- wanted the land, despised the slavs (russians), wanted the farmland, use people for slave labor, he thought stalin was going to attack him at one point
- the german invasion of the soviet union
- biggest land invasion in world history
- summer of 1941
- 4.5 million german soldiers
- russia and germans lost more people than we have ever lost in any wars combined
- 3 cities- Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad
---battle of stalingrad
- lot of oil fields
- invaded in june of 41
- hitler had control of 90% of the city and then another winter set in
- soldiers were left with 2 options- fight the germans or be killed by own people
- 200 days
--battle of Moscow
- hitler never got to moscow, 12 miles away
- casualties- dead, missing, injured
- the soviets stopped it
- turning point of the war in russia
- hitler was furious-- fired officers and replaced them with young "newbies"
- he wanted his commanders to do anything he said
- he started calling the shots in the military
- assassination-attempts started happening
--Battle of Leningrad
- hitler decided to surround it
- seizing the city
- stopped 1944
- cannibalism- people ate people
- most costly
- people died everyday
- people were starving to death
- germans never took the city
- soviets never surrendered
- over 1,000,000 civilians were killed
Battle in Africa and Italy
- Erwin Rommel- The Desert Fox- German General
- George Patton- most famous general for us in WWII in africa
- him and montgomery were allies but did not like each other
- Operation Torch- British- american-- we defeated the germans, italians, and the vichy french
- Casablanca Conference 1942- unconditional surrender for germany- they had to do whatever we told them to do
Italitan Campaign
- Us the british and canada- invaded by air and water- august 1943
- british invaded the toe of italy sept. 3-- gb and france allied powers
- all of the germans retreated may 2 1945
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