US History: Students will be given on WWII topic from below to research and write a blog about.
-The US Homefront
- Women's role - 24,000,000 adult women worked total for the war even thought they were told it was "mans work"
- Factories-War Production Board wanted to produce as much for the war as fast as possible
- War bonds - Everyone bought war bonds to loan government money for the war. They were supposed to make interest on the amount they had lent.
- Japanese relocation camps- after Perl harbor Americans feared invasion by japan so in 1942 FDR established war relocation authority which moved Japanese into camps to not intentionally be killed but did.
- Propaganda - Used to convince people thoughts on idea a government would want a group of people to do. Like dropping papers from sky to advertise their thoughts. (urgency was demanded)
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration
- 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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