right now we are updating the people who were gone yesterday on what we talked about yesterday.
US Homefront:
- It is what people are doing at home to help with the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- First peacetime draft in the US
- After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riveter
- Represented women workers in WWII
- Nursing was popular
- Farm workers, typist, waitresses, time keepers, messengers, teachers, bus/taxi drivers, factory workers.
- They did other jobs but did not actually fight in war,
- WAC=Womens army corps
- WAVES=Womens navy
- WASP=Womes army service pilots- transported planes from place to place.
- Tokyo Rose...
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Worked in factories
- Guys fought
- Alot of bombing
- fighting on frontlines
- they were being discriminated against
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Basically the same kinda stuff as African Americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Hollywood made propaganda for war
- Entertained troops
- Made advertisements for war
- The purple heart is an example
- Cary Grant was an actor
- Casablanca is a movie they made for WWII back in the day.
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, Chief of staff of the US military during WWII
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
29. Why did we win WWII?
- Henry Kaiser
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