selsctive training and service act 1940
first peace time draft in usa history
used until 1973 to fill military needs
after 1973 us military depended on volunteers to fill needs
gerorge c marshall cheif of tstaff of the is military druin
US Homefront:
henry kaiser owned the company to make ships indutriluste help us win the war other ppl couldnt keep up
2. Women's role in WWII
rosie the riveter
represeanted women workers in WWII poster child said u can still look good but role up ur sleaves and work in the factories alot of women became nusres druing WWII women were the providers for america and they had to do alot of sacrfice
3. African-American's role in WWII
males worked in the factories and they were in WWII but segregated
4. Asian's role in WWII
tokyo rise iva toguri was an american citizen in japana nd she played songs on the radio tryin to get ppl hiome sick many were in the war and worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
it really wasnt around they made WWII movies druing this time kilroy was here lol that is funny lol they made alot of moive that were proajanda
6. Office of Price Administration
establish 1941 it was to deal with price control and rationing of goods big organsation u had stickers that said how much gas u would get if u were a u only got 4 gallons of gas a week and then there was if u had a c u got more and b u got five if u had a t u got as much as u need cuz u were delivering goods a black market was made to sell stickers and gas alot of ppl were arrested and gasstaions closed
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
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
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