2. Women's role in WWII Rosie the Riveter represented women workers during the war, worked in factories, nursing, secretaries, typists, farmer, sales, waitress, bus/taxi driver, messenger, laundry, teacher, conductors, didn’t fight in war, each branch had their own branches, Army- WAC, Navy- WAVES, Air Force- WASP; "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri, on the radio, taunting troops and making them homesick, US citizen in Japan, convicted of treason;
3. African-American's role in WWII many went to war, worked in factories, bombing and fighting on front lines, discriminated against
4. Asian's role in WWII
Internment camps
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Entertained troops, made propaganda movies, sent people overseas to entertain troops, The Purple Heart major movie, Cary Grant major actor
6. Office of Price Administration
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Home front helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
12. Operation Barbarossa (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 WWII, head of US military, only guy above him was the president
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 the allies won
Hitler declaring war on US, women’s work in factories; Henry Kaiser had a shipbuilding company, made more ships than all other countries combined;
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