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.
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 who starred in Destination Tokyo. They tried to portray the Japanese as blind, and the Germans as Materialistic.
-Bob Hope- Had yearly Christmas specials up until he died. Mr. Bruns grew up watchign him. :P He was in movies throughout the 50's and 60's. He was a comedian who went on the USO Tour. It was designed to help entertain the troops.
-John Wayne-Huge actor in WW2 in the 50's and 60's did a lot of WW2 movies, and western movies.
6. Office of Price Administration
*OPA, Rationing.
-Set up in 1941 to set up rationing and price controls. Made sure prices didn't skyrocket. 8,000 rationing boards were set up across the country. Rationing included sugar and meat, silk and nylon. They couldn't make toys of steel, and rubber. You could only get 5 gallons of gas for week, and that got even more strict as time went on. By the end of 1942 1/2 of the nations cars were issued an A sticker allowing only 4 gallons a week. The other half had a B or C sticker. B stickers were given a little more gas cause they were a war worker. C stickers were vital like doctors. T stickers had unlimited amounts of gasoline. Counterfit and stolen stickers were common. Black market goods became popular. You couldn't buy rationed goods without ration stamps. Once your stamps were gone for the week you would have to wait until the next Saturday.
Horse meat wasn't rationed, so you could get that whenever you want. That's disgusting. Why would you eat a horse?!
7. War Production Board
They kept the home fires buning, they built a lot of stuff for the war. Basically told people not to waste their time while at work.
8. National War Labor Board
They tried to bring workers and owners together so they wouldn't go on strike, and they would be able to make things more efficient.
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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