Today we had a blog discussion about our WW2 topics.
-The US Home front (What we did in the US to help the war):
Women's role:
- Factories
- Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WW2Factories
- Nursing
- Get a war Job secretary or typist
- farm work
- sales people
- elevator opperator
- conductors
- women couldn't fight
- Women's Army Corps= map making, driving, did things etc.
- a lot of women that stayed home
- WAVES/ women's navy= non- combat roles
- Women's Army Service Pilots- test planes, send things out
- women basically
-War Production Board
- more production
- make as much stuff as you possibly can
- encourage people to not waste time
- National War Labor Board= everyone work together and have no fights
- put aside differences until after the war
-War bonds
- help the US pay for the war
- everyone had to buy a war bond
- investment and get interest on it in the future
-Japanese relocation camps
- camps that the US put the Japanese people that were settling in the US
- Mainly in the West of the US
- http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89manzanar.htm
- Japanese forced to leave their homes
- forced to work and be there
- couldn't leave
- kids went to school and still did activities
-Propaganda
- persuading people to do something
- get people to buy war bonds
- enlist in the military
- make US look good and Germany look bad
- get everybody do your part
- urgency to do your part today
-War rationing-Office of Price Administration
- food rationing
- made so the wealthy couldn't buy everything and hoard everything
- fair share for everyone not just the wealthy
- rationing- making so a family could have so much food
- everyone had something
- gas rationing only 5 gallons per week
- didn't have any toys for kids
- only had 1 toy and very few clothes
- war ration book
- stamps were gone and couldn't get anymore
- couldn't loan stamps to neighbors or friends
-Hollywood in WWII
-The story of "Kilroy was here"
US Fighting:
-US in Africa
-US in Italy
-D-Day
-US bombing of Germany
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering
-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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