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 WWII5. 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. The USO we sent comedians and actor and singers over seas to entertain the troops to make them happy.6. Office of Price Administration If your job didnt benefit the war, if you didnt then you could only have 4 gallons of gas per year. B sticker could have more gas , and your job helped the war effort. If your job helped the war you got more gas. They didnt want people to buy to buy from the blackmarket. Truckers had unlimited amounts of gas. Controled prices and rationing. You were given books that had to last for that week then you got another book. Horse meat wasnt rationed.7. War Production Board- They wanted to work hard and not mmess around.8. National War Labor Board- Us org that brought workers together so that they wouldnt go on strike and so they wouldnt slow down the war effort.9. Why the Homefront helped win the war10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)13. Battle in Africa and Italy14. 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 Overlord16. Battle of the Bulge17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over18. VE Day19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,20. Navajo Code Talkers21. Doolittle's Raid22. Manhattan Project23. Hiroshima bombing24. Nagasaki bombing25. VJ Day26. Yalta Conference27. Nuremburg Trials28. Japanese Internment Camps in US29. 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.Like 0 members like this Share TwitterTags:d
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