1. Selective Training and Service Act 1940
- Allowed people who were 18 to join the Military
- Instituted drafts
- Fist peacetime draft in US history- because we were not in the war yet
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs- after Vietnam
- after 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
- Women started working
- Each military had a woman division, they worked in the military as nurses
- Traditionally just stayed at home, and were thought not to be as strong as men - worked in factories, red cross, farm workers, waitress, teachers, bus drivers, messengers, laundresses, typists, conductors, jobs that men traditionally had -Rosie The riveter-represented working women- used in propaganda
- Waves- woman's navy- many worked in the military, not directly but in training, testing, etc
- Women’s army corp.-photographers etc.
- WASP-women’s army service pilots-test aircrafts
3. African-American's role in WWII
- many registered for the draft
- They were segregated
- were not able to fight they thought they could not handle it
- Many of them volunteered to fight in ww2, they fought pretty good, the were segregated because they thought that they could not fight as well.
- Tuskegee Airmen- were the most famous- great bombing campaigns, showed that African American were good fighters, they really proved themselves in ww2
4. Asian's role in WWII
- After the Pearl Harbor many were forced from their homes
- Many volunteered for the U.S., they had to wear tags so people know that they were Japanese American soldiers, that way they would be thought to be original Japanese soldiers.
- If they did not fight they would stay at home and work in factories, and stuff.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Started making a lot of movies showing how bad the German's were- Propaganda--Looney Tunes
- Bob hope- he worked with the U.S.O to help the troops to entertain the troop- no profit, still around today, since 1941--died in 2003.
- from 1941 to 1947 the USO presented more than 400,000 performances featuring many entertainers-Lucille Ball, John Wayne, Bing Crosby, etc.
6. Office of Price Administration
- Administration set up by FDR
- Set up how much people were Legally supposed to buy in order to give our troops enough food
- USO-United Service Organization-entertaining the troops --propaganda
- Ration food-never buy rationed food without ration stamps
- WWII was the last time the US rationed
- silk and nylon were rationed
- gas was rationed-4 gallons per week per family
- Black Market--get a b sticker instead of a sticker
- some people were arrested for false stickers
7. War Production Board
- made sure they kept up with supplies in WWII
- Established in 1942 by FDR
- Kilroy-JJ Kilroy-inspector of boxes-he would write Kilroy was here
8. National War Labor Board
- Created in 1942 by FDR
- To help arguments between employees and industries
- Made sure that no one strikes
- Worker-owner relations were smooth
9. Why the Home front helped win the war
- The women helped the war efforts by working in factories, and war production was high
- Made a lot of food and supplies
- Hollywood had propagandas –kept war positive ex. War baonds
- NPA—National Price Administration
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
- kept adding new weapons and they did not have as much as we did
- SPEED we made a lot of ships at a quick rate
- changed our naval code
- we could tell where they were through ultra
- our destroyers took down U-boats in Atlantic
- Ultra—intelligence gathering-to figure out where German Uboats were—magic—code name
- Radio info to ships
- Convoy System-go across in large groups, wolfpacks-groups of submarines
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
- deciphered their encryption system
- used radio waves to type information-0s and 1s
- in code not German
- High level code-Ultra-ultra secret
- magic was code name
- war was shortened 4 to 2 years
- Italian Maphia would also spy
- Intercepting German code
- Magic was by U.S.-code name –Japanese code
- Used radar
- HFDF-locate uboats below the surface
- Churchill understood the importance
- Enigma-machine that Germany used to transfer codes
- Hunter Killers-ships designed to go after U-boats
- Depth Charge-says how deep its going to go and the uboat explodes
- BY 1943 the numbers of uboats went down
- Get goods from US to Great Britain
12. Operation Barbarossa (USSR vs. Germany) germany invation
Despised slaves
- Wanted Ukraine for farmland
- Could use people as slave lobor
- It would further isolate the allies
- Lebensraum
- Wanted oil fields in the Caucasus mountains
- Didn’t trust stalin propaganda showed that stalin was going to attack germany
- The western front fighting was over (except GB)
Germany was going after 3 citys
- leningrad
- moscow- 280,000-400,00 german
millions of sovit union
hitler took contol and made all mititary decisions afterwards
this led many expirencwed german officers to go agains hitler
hitler surrounded himself with officers with little or no recact
- stanlingrad-
it was a siege took place on jan 27 1944 872 days
hungry gamgs atacked and ate demolished people.
police had to put of forces to protect poeple from the hungry gangs that would get you.
they never serenderd
german never took leiningrad but it was one of the most costly conflicts russia had over faced
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
-operation torched
-erin rommel- he commited
tank war was very popular
- germany surrendered uncondital.
Italy!
- they were the soft part
- us canda, and bitish forced invaded with tanks and air stuff..
- sep 3 1943 started
- they got contol of roman on july 2 1994
- aug 25 they got throw the gothic line
they surrender fast after sevral months
italy became a allie
- that is the 2nd place we fought in
- us great britan
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
marshall- was american leader
chief of staff of the us military during the ww11
Eisenhower- 5 star genral, all allied troops cheif of staff,pres at columbia unveristy great general/
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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