1. Selective Training and Service Act
The Draft. Sign up for selective service at 18; peacetime draft.
2. Women's role in WWII
Women paid a huge role---manufacturing, factories, stuff. Rosie the Rivetor. Nursing on the front lines was very needed. Wrote death notices. Photography, Cartogrophy.
WAVES- Women's Navy. Telephone operators.
Women's Army Service Pilots- Women's Airforce
Tokyo Rose- U.S. Citizen in Japan. Forced to broadcast propoganda to the Allies for Japan. Taunted the troops and played music from home.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Did everything a white man would do; fought on the seas, land, and sky. But segregated units.
4. Asian's role in WWII
Same as all minorites; just segregated.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Propoganda in movies, drive american patriotism, advertise war bonds. (Wake Island, Guadicanal Diary, Destination Tokyo, Casablanca), entertainers sent overseas to boost moralle of troops. Muy Importante.
6. Office of Price Administration
Administered Price Controls. Controlled rationing. Gas rationing begain in 1942 limiting use to 5 gallons per week. Stickers were allotted to people and automobiles to gage how muc gas could be bought. Stamps were also used to buy food, but when those stickers were done, yeah, you were done buying. Lots of black markey buying.
7. War Production Board
Tons and tons of stuff; promoted more work, more production, so on and so forth. DON'T WASTE TIME!!!
8. National War Labor Board
Wanted all the workes and employers to get along; lots of love. Three-way handshakes.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
People like Henry Kaiser, industrialists who assisted in making STUFF for the war effort.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
Built better ships :)
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
American interception and decoding of German (ultra) and Japanese (magic) transmissions.
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
Greatest land war in recorded history. June 22nd 1941. Hitler wanted the soviet union, so the germans and the soviet armies marched upon eachother, the front being many miles wide. Very bloody. But the winter kicked hitler's butt. Just like Napolean. about 90% of Stalingrad was occupied before the soviets began to push back. By summer 1943, the soviets were predicted to win. He then wanted to take down the capital---mascow---to take down the whole country. battle of moscow, 280,000- 400,00 casualties for germany, 650.00-1,280,000 soviet casualites. Germans got within 12 miles, but soviets stopped the advance.
Then, there was that there seige of Leningrad. It became one of the largest seiges in world history. Those in leningrad were surrounded, supplies were cut off. People would eat eachother, pets, rats, birds, hungry gangs attacked and killed people to eat. The police even formed a unit to combat cannibalism. But a counter-offensive drained necessary german supplies and leningrad was never actually taken.
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Italy---SOFT UNDERBELLY. So Churchill went. And he poked that belly. And um, we also invaded Africa. Whatever. Its cool. Then in 1942, there was the Casablanca Confernece, where "unconditional surrender" was debated. That means...LONG WAR!
Erwin Rommel (Germany), the Desert Fox. Bernard Montgomery (GB). George Patton. Operation Torch, British-American invasion of French North Africa.Italy's Appenine Mts. Tuskegee Institute, bombing raids in Italy and Germany.
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
Marshall (chief of staff of the US military during WWII). General George Patton (treated soldiers rough). Ike, Patton, and Bradley. MacArthur, Japanese in Philippines, large ego, went to Australia "I shall return". Nimitz, US navy against Japan.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
Eisenhower---LIKE A BOSS. June 6, 1944. STUFF WENT DOWN. Allied invasion of Nazi controlled France. IT was DAY DAY!!! Haha DERP! Conducted in two phases: An airborn assault, shortly after midnight, and an amphibioud landing of Allied infantry amd armored divisions on the coast of franve starting at 6:30 AM. Hitler tried to make a wall. Wow. Decoy ops to distract Germans. Largest amphibious invasion in world history. Scheduled for June 5th, needed full moon. 10,000 allied casualties. The Atlantic Wall, coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany on western coast of Europe.
16. Battle of the Bulge
Winter of '44- '45. It was cold, snowy, on the german/ Belgium border. Iver 1 million neb, 500,00 Germans, 600,000 americans, and 55,000 brithish. The Mamedfy Massacre, where 86 ameraicans were murdered.
Hitler shot and killed himself, along with taking cianide. Gubbles and his wife, along with all of his children died.
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over. Case closed.
18. VE Day
Victory in Europe Day. End of war, May 8th 1945.
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
Island Hopping- Hit stragtegiccly important island, hopping over the smaller ones, knowing that the smaller, less important islands would surrender due to a lack of supplies. Japanese take over philiapeanes, we take 'em back, they get independance. Pretty sweet deal. Bataan Death March was not. 16 mile stretch where japs forced americans and philipinos to march. Physical abuse and murder. Japs faced war crimes trials.
20. Navajo Code Talkers
Code talkers. made up some code. Pretty crazy. WAS NEVER DECEIFERED.A reason why we won the war. Code we used to transmit messages
21. Doolittle's Raid
US mission to bomb Tokyo. Used aircraft carrier to lift off in the ocean. Had to strip ships to make lighter so they could take off. Landed in China. Americans needed a morale boost.
Coral sea: Minor turning point of the war against the japanese. Mainly a sea battle
Battle of Midway: Victory for the US. After this battle, japan's navy was never the same. We destryoed more ships that they could make. The Japs beleived that if they could take Midway Island, we would back off.
Gudacanal: Marked the transition from a defensive to offense stance by the allies. Another victory over the Japanese.
Battle of Leyte Gulf: Absolutely destroyed Japanese Navy. Pretty much had nothing. Pretty crazy. Leyte gulf is the gulf of the philapeanes.
22. Manhattan Project
Making of atomic bomb. Leslie Groves, in charge of project. J Robert Oppenheimer, head scientist, communist. Los Alamos, developed. Dropped in Alamogordo, NM, named Trinity. Enola Gay, developed plane strong enough to drop the bomb which was 10,000-12,000 lbs. Paul Tibbits, the pilot. B-29 Super Fortress.
23. Hiroshima bombing
Bomb nicknamed "Little Boy". Main target was a t-shaped bridge. the atomic shadow, shadows are burned into the ground. Radiation. 100,000 some died. Tibbits was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the bomb.
24. Nagasaki bombing
Bomb nicknamed "Fat Man". Planed named the Bockscar.
25. VJ Day
Victory in Japan day. August 14, 1945
26. Yalta Conference
BIG THREE BAYBAY!! FDR, Chuchill, and Stalin. February 1945 in Ukraine. Split Germany in four occupation zones (US, GB, France, USSR). Stalin promised free elections in eastern Europe. Also promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over. Have a conference at San Fransisco to set up the UN.
27. Nuremburg Trials
War crime trials for Nazis and such. Hermann Goering, took over after Hitler killed himself, (killed himself during trials).
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
Forced Jap-Americans to move to camps in western US, desolate, like army barracks. "For their safety". School, jobs. Just in isolation.
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Intelligence gathering.
GI Bill of Rights. Help soldiers come back to everyday life. Education, jobs.
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