No assigned blog for the week. woot woot.
Blog Discussion. :
Over the Second part of the test.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- First peacetime draft in US history.
- used until 1973 to fill military needs.
- after 1973, Us military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riveter
*Represented women workers in WW2
- Nursing.
- factory workers
- waitress
- messengers
- conductors
- teachers
- elevator operators
WAC (Womens Army Core)
WASP (Womens Army Service Pilots)
3. African-American's role in WWII
- .5 million serving in Europe.
- Not allowed in front line
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Werent drafted.
- had to wear buttons to tell races apart.
- INterpurders
- Soldiers.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- USO
- Entertainment
6. Office of Price Administration
- maintained prices of house old items during the war.
- Limit on how much people could buy.
- People got ration stamps.
- Different colors for different foods.
- cant share stamps.
7. War Production Board
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8. National War Labor Board
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9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
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
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