US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act- 1940
- It was the 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
- Women began to work as waitresses, farmers, and factory workers, filling in for the men's jobs
- 6 million took war time jobs in factories
- 3 million women volunteered for the Red Cross
- Basically did the work that the men used to do
- Worked as nurses, taking care of injured soldiers
- Worked as war secretaries
- Farmers, typists, sales people, waitresses, teachers, bus drivers, taxi drivers, messengers, laundresses, conductors, elevator operators, map making (cartographers)
- Every branch of the military had a spot for women to do small business work like typing and stuff. But women did not work on the front lines of warfare.
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Tuskegee Airmen were the first African Americans that really stepped up and helped out US working as pilots
- Most worked as remedial jobs like cooks
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Served as translators in the Pacific Front
- Had to wear badges to show that they were not part of the Japanese military and that they were Japanese Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Hollywood started making a lot of movies about what the Nazis were doing to the Jews to get Americans angry about the US not being in the war yet.
- Bob Hope was a great American comedian, actor, etc. He worked with the United Service Organization and worked to help the troops.
- USO was a nonprofit organization that provides entertainment for troops
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
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
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