This week there is no assigned blog, and we need to do 15 forum posts and daily blogs everyday. Today we are presenting our assigned blogs from last week.
The US Homefront
- Women's role - played a vital role in WWII. They took over the jobs in the factories when the men went to war. They also did more jobs.
- Factories-War Production Board - Tried to manage the mass production of goods.
- War bonds - It helped the United States Pay for the war.
- Japanese relocation camps - Like the concentration camps in Europe but not as extreme. There were about 110,000 were sent to these camps.
- Propaganda - Tried to persuade people to do something.
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration - Set up so the rich couldn't horde everything.
- Hollywood in WWII
- The story of "Kilroy was here"
US Fighting:
-US in Africa
-US in Italy
-D-Day
-US bombing of Germany
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering
-Battle of Coral Sea
-Battle of Midway
-Battle of Iwo Jima
-Battle of the Philippines
-Battle of Okinawa
-Hiroshima bombing
-Nagasaki bombing
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering
-Yalta Conference
-Potsdam Conference
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