3 sources, two pictures for our blog assignment that is due in a few weeks.
Test questions :
US Homefront:
What you're doing in your home country. To make it better.
1. Selective Training and Service Act 1940 -
- US didn't seem very nuetral now. Roosevelt helped passed the Selective Training and Service Act - draft.
- 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.
- Women were needed even more during this war because it lasted longer.
- Worked in factories, nurses, secretaries, farm workers, waittresses, taxi drivers, bus drivers, do laundry, conductors, elevator workers, typest, they provided the men with the stuff they needed, planes, weapons, all that junk. Women didn't fight in the war, the women's army core typed, tested machinery, desk jobs, since men were over their fighting, the women took over their jobs. Worked with maps, developing pictures. They planted gardens, so they could can food and send to troops.
- WAVES - Women's navy.
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Minorities played many roles in WW2, pretty much did factory worked, while being segregated.
4. Asian's role in WWII
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5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Sent movies over to entertain the troops. The Purple Heart was a big one. Cary Grant was a big actor. Casablanca - one too.
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
- George C. Marshall - Cheif of Staff of the US military during WW2. Head honcho of the military.
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 . Why we won WWII -
- Henry Kaiser owned a ship company - made a lot of ships. We made a lot more stuff than all the countries combined.
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