Today we started by talking abot what we talked about yesterday. Our blogs, and the Cold War project. I'm still not looking forward to that. We then talked abuot the WW2 test.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940. homefront.
Even though we were not in the war yet, Roosevelt knew we should be ready if the war would come upon us.It was the First peacetime draft in US History. it was made so just in case we went to war, we'd be ready.Was used up to 1973 to fill military needs. <When guys turn 18, they have to register for the draft.>
2. Women's role in WWII
*Rosie the Riveter. Represented women workers in WW2. She was one buff lady. :p Women worked i the factories. It was really that that heled open up their rights. More went to college, and more got jobs outside of their home. They were nurses. Women were also needed as farmworkers, typists, waitresesses, drivers, messangers, laundrasis, teachers, conductors, and other jobs that typically men would do. There were many posters that stated that we wouldn't be able to win the war without the women.
There were many different womens branches in the war. WAC-Womens Army Corps..did things like typing, transportating things, and desk jobs. They worked on maps, and photography.
They had rationing things that tried to make wormen not buy black market goods. They tried to get them to produce their own garden, and the more better off they're going to be.
The Navy had the WAVES.
The WASP was the Women's Army Service Pilots. They would transport planes from point a to point b, and they would test them and stuff.
***Tokyo Rose=american citizen in Japan in WW2, who broadcasted over the radio. Was eventually convicted of treason. She taunted the troops and played music from home, trying to make them stop fighting.
3. African-American's role in WWII
They were seen as inferior. Became pilots, fought on the front lines. Tuskegee Airmen were black pilots that did extremely well in Italy. Minorities played a very signifigant role, they worked in factories as well.
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Made propaganda films, and tried to get people to buy war bonds to get entertainment over seas to entertain the troops. Wake Island, Guadalcanal Diary, The Purple Heart, Destination Tokyo were all popular. Along with Casablanca. Cary Grant was a popular actor.
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.
Marshall--Chief of Staff of the US Military during WW2. The only guy above him was FDR, and eventually Truman. He was making the rules, and doing all the stuff in the war Dept. in DC. Eventually becomes secretary of state.
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 the allies win WW2?
-Hiters mistakes like invading the Soviet Union, and his military. We ultimately won because we had more stuff than the other militaries.
--Henry Kaiser. He owned a ship company that hired women and other people to help make ship. We were making more ships by the end of the war than any other country in the world. *WW2 is when we really became the super power.
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