March. 30. 2011

Notes and watching luney tunes propaganda videos.

 

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.
  • John Wayne. STUDDD!!!!! love him!
  • Kilroy was here

 

6. Office of Price Administration

  • Set up in 1941 to set up rations and pricing items.
  • 8000 rationing boards were created to volunteer.
  • food rationing included restrictions on sugar, meat; clothing, restricted silk and nylon
  • Gasoline rations began May 1942 limiting to 4 gallons of gas per week.
  • There were stickers for gas things
  • T sticker=truckers for unlimited amounts
  • C sticker-doctors for important jobs
  • B sticker=for others.
  • Black market developed in stolen or fake stickers that were used in 30% gas sales..
  • by 1945 32,500 motorists were arrested for using these stickers and 4000 gas stations were closed for taking part in this.
  • People had to stand in lines for sugar because they were allowed only limited amounts
  • Horse meat was not rationed.

 

7. War Production Board

  • They made alot of stuff as quickly as they could

 

 

8. National War Labor Board

  • Wanted everyone to work together.
  • It was trying to get people to stop going on strike
  • workers, owners, ect working together to get jobs done.

 

 

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 allied powers win WWII?

  • Henry Kaiser was a ship builder helping to improve the war and army ect.
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