US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
Allowed people who were 18 to go into the military. Set up the draft (United States institute drafts to try to get their numbers up.
First peacetime draft in US history.
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter represented women in WWII.
Women started working -Factories, nursing, secretaries, farm workers, sales people, waitresses, bus and taxi drivers. --Couldn't win the war without them!
WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots-Flew and test planes.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Many volunteered to fight into the war; Segregated Units.
Not able to fight in the front lines; put off as more as custodians, factories and farmed.
Tuskegee Airman proved that the black can fight in WWII- Did outstanding in their bombing campaign.
4. Asian's role in WWII
Asian's had to wear tags that they were Japanese American soldiers.
They were allowed to fight and not put into segregated units.
They stepped up to the plate and fought for our country; many worked to help bring the war back home just like other Americans.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
USO-entertaining the people of the US military; Bob Hope.
United Service Organization^^
Looney Tunes would do a lot of propagandas (as well as entertain)
6. Office of Price Administration
-Established in 1941; Set up by FDR- Set up how much the ration coupon books would consist of- Also set up propaganda pieces; help us win the war.
7. War Production Board
Established by FDR- Main purpose was to keep the production up; make factories make as much as they could and as efficient as they could.
8. National War Labor Board
Established by FDR; To stop arguments between factories and employees. Promote workers and also keep strikes down!
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
-Women stepped up and helped. --War production.
-We were able to make so much supplies for the war that other countries couldn't keep up.
-Hollywood (Helping keep the war positive) -Propaganda.
-National War Labor Board; War Production Board
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
U-Boats are submarines.
-Changed our Naval Code.
-We knew what they were doing through Ultras.
-We sunk a lot of their U-Boats.
-Speed
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
Ultra-- Picking up on their codes (Intereception and Deciphering) --Ultra Secret ; done by the British for the Germans
Magic-- Same thing as Ultra but done by the US into Japans codes-- Because of this, the war had been shortened four to five years.
Radar^^
Huff Duff- locate the sources of enemy radio transmissions.
Hunter Killers- Designed to attack and destroy U-Boats.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
The largest military operations-- Germany invasion of the Soviet Union.
Why did Hitler invade the Soviet Union?
-Lebensraum (German people living in Russia)
-Despised the ethnic Slavs.
-Could use the people as slave labor.
-Wanted Ukraine for the farmland.
-Didn't trust Stalin.
3 cities that Hitler was going after-- Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad.
Stalingrad was saved! Germans never get to Moscow!
Hitler really wanted Moscow because it was the capital and if you get the capital to surrender, you would probably have the whole country surrender.
The seige of Leningrad- He never invaded Leningrad.
Seige is surrounding a city and starve it.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Battle in Africa-
Operation Torch- Invasion of Moroco. The US got control of Moroco.
Vischi France, Italy, and Germany were the ones we were fighting in Africa.
Tank warfare was common in the battles in Africa.
Erwin Rommel was a famous general for Germany- The Desert Fox.
The Axis Powers surrended on 1943. The campaign before a year.
In January 1942- Casablanca Conference- "Unconditional Surrender."
Battle in Italy-
US invaded Sicily. -Allies won; Axis powers were able to withdraw there troops though.
Second Territory we fought after Africa- Churchill believed it was the weaker belly of France.
Tuskegee did most of their bombing in Italy.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US military during WWII.
Dwight Eisenhower- Supreme Allied Commander- All Allied Troops.
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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