1. Selective Training and Service Act
-It forced people 18 and older to join the army
-First peacetime draft in US History
-Used until 1973
-After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women started working and liked it
-Women made bombs and supplies for war
-Women were nurses during the war
-Rosie the RIviter-represented women worker in WWII
3. African-American's role in WWII
-Many volunteered many were drafted
-they were segragated
-at first they weren't allowed to fight in the front line
-many were put in as custodians and cooks
-Many did things at home to help with the war
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Many american born Japanese volunteered to fight
-There wasn't a lot of trust
-They had to wear tags in the war so people would know they were japanese-american soldiers
-there was up to 20,000 chinese that were in the war
-300 Korean- Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Bob Hope and Looney Toons were important to WWII
-Bob Hope would go to the troops and tell jokes and stuff to take the war off of the soldiers minds
-USo is a private non profit group that goes around entertaining troops
6. Office of Price Administration
-Set up by FDR
-Set up how much people could ration
-There was propoganda for it
7. War Production Board
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8. National War Labor Board
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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