US History: Students will be given on WWII topic from below to research and write a blog about.
-The US Home-front
- Women's role
woman went into work at factories
the bad thing was when the men came back the women got laid off
Rosie the Retriever- women working back home, work hard but still look like woman
they were also nurses in the war
woman were typers and secretaries
other jobs: conducts, time keepers, farmers, transportation drivers.
Women's Army Corps- testers, transporters, secretaries
Waves- women navy
WASP- woman air force
- Factories-War Production Board
make as much as you can cause this will win the war
don't waste anytime they didn't anyone to go strike because together we win
we made more war goods then all the allies combined
National War Labor Board- where the business man, workers, and US all working
- War bonds
people bought these and the money would go to the government towards the war help fund the war
- Japanese relocation camps
after Pearl Harbor was attacked we were scared for Japanese spies. So we took Japanese to concentration camp, they had to pack a few things are we forced to go live in these camps.
children went to school and got educated and there was also athletics
- Propaganda
it was made to convenience people think one way
we were fly over drop booklets that said there countries were bad
Goals:
1. Buy War Bonds
2. Enlist Today!
3. Make us look good and Germany bad.
4. Do your part today!
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration
to get money back
money flow
ration goods
so prices would sky rocket
only 5 gallons of gas a week
got certain stickers to see how much you can get
black market- illegal play
people could not share, you could only use it for your own family.
- Hollywood in WWII
the actors would make films about the war
USO (united service operation) would also perform for the troops and would tour everywhere to get to the troops
The USO tour was founded by Bob Hope
By May of 1945- The performed over 700 shows
- The story of "Kilroy was here"
A guy named James Kilroy and he inspected ... then he would write Kilroy was here.
So the troops wasn't really sure where it came from
Germany and other countries thought he was a Super Troop or spy
- US Fighting:
- US in Africa
It involved a lot of tank attacks
it was a dessert
Bad French, Germany and Italy vs. US, Canada, Free French, Britain
June 1940 started- we got involved in 1942- ended in May of 1943
because we felt it was axis powers weakest place
US was only in it 6 months
this was like a D-day invasion
Operation Torch- Code name for the invasion of Northern Africa
Erwin Rommel- Desert Fox - he was founded as a attempted killer of Hitler
George Patton and George fought each other because they wanted to kill Rommel
George Patton was killed in a car accident right after the war
- US in Italy
We attacked on the west coast- it was called operation
We also invaded Sicily - July 1943 - Operation Husky- successful- helped end the war in Europe
We want to throw over Musalia government
September 8th,1943 is when the Italian government surrender
Italy was not free though because there was still German troops there
- D-Day
Started on June 6th
13,000 patriarchates
there were 5 beaches- Utah, Gold, Sword, Omaha, Juno
was the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany
the weather was not very good that day
we had given there false information for about a week now
little over 3,000 people were killed
- -US bombing of Germany
drop the bomb on places that were important to the German war device; factories, naval bases, shipyards, power plants, steel mills, airfields
More than 27,000 were deployed to help with the bombing.
"The Mighty 8th" or also known as the US 8th Air Force was the ones doing all of the bombing on Germany
- VE Day
Europe want Germany to surrender unconditionally
May 7th, people wanted to know what happen
May 8th, The next day would be victory for European and would be a holiday
- -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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