Blog Disc.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act- first peace time draft in US history
2. Women's role in WWII-worked in factorys, nurses, farm workers, bus drivers, taxi drivers
3. African-American's role in WWII-500,000 blacks in europe
4. Asian's role in WWII- interperters soldiers
5. Hollywood's role in WWII- movies were big propaganda entertained the troops
6. Office of Price Administration- set up rations
7. War Production Board- helped with rationing change businesses into wartime bussinsses
8. National War Labor Board- halped workers get more rights and got workers to work harder
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war- made a lot of stuff.
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats- convoy system go faster
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic-hf/df told us were u boats were
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)-german invasion of russia. liningrad moscow stalingrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy- fought the germans and italy an vichy france patton us general
14. US Generals:
Marshall-Chief of Staff
Eisenhower-supreme commander of all alide powers
Patton-general of army in europe
MacArthur- general of army to japan
Nimitz- admeral in navy japan
Bradley- general in europe
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord- june 6, 1944
16. Battle of the Bulge- last german affences of the war
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over-
18. VE Day-may 45
19. Battle in the Pacific:
Island Hopping-jump over some islnds and take some
Philippines- fighting on the philippines the whole time of the war
Coral Sea- first time that japan didnt win
Midway- most important navel battle against japan
Guadalcanal- US went from defensive to offensive and never stoped
Iwo Jima- Japanese island
Okinawa- Japanese island
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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