US Homefront: What you are doing in your home country to benefit the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act- First peacetime draft in us history. It was a draft to get them in the army.
2. Women's role in WWII- Rosie the Riveter, they worked in factories, women were nurses, they were typers, they made posters to help get women to get jobs and help men enter the military, they took photos, did rationas, caning food, each branch of the military had a branch for the women.
3. African-American's role in WWII- worked in the factories and the men actually fought on the front lines or they were pilots.
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII- They made a lot of films to help make the U.S. seem like we were unstoppable, and to make other countries look like they terrible and make us hate them even more.
6. Office of Price Administration
7. War Production Board
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-Marshall was the second guy in charge behind FDR he was a man that sat in an office in D.C.
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
29. Reasons why we won the war- Henry Kaiser owned a huge factory for ships and his company made the most. He hired a lot of women to work in the factories.
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