Today Bruns started with his presentation.
-U.S. home front
-In 1940 the Selective Training and Service Act was started. It was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. It was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After that the U.S. military depended on volunteers to fill the needs.
-George. C. Marshall was the Chief of Staff of the U.S. military during WWII. This guy was the head honcho of the military. The only person who would have been above him was the president. He came up with the idea to give billions of dollars to the British to rebuild them.
-Women-
-Rosie the Riveter
-The women had big roles during WWII. They had to work and mostly they were factory workers. They didn’t like working in the factories because they thought that they would get big muscles like boys. They also had a lot more jobs then just the factories. The women would also work in the army and they would control the radios and testing planes and stuff like that.
-Tokyo Rose
-African Americans-
-They helped fight a lot, but they were segregated. They couldn’t mix and fight with whites, which I think is kinda dumb.
-Henry Kaiser-
He was a ship builder. He had the biggest ship building company and he was a major reason that we won the war.
-Hollywood produced a lot of good movies to show how good we were doing and to be thankful for the troops.
-Bob Hope was very famous. He started out as kind of a stand-up comedian. Bob would go and like entertain the troops along with like pin-up girls. Bing Crosby was also a singer.
-John Wayne was the most famous actor during this time. He made a lot of movies.
-OPA and rationing-
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