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,
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20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
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26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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