US Homefront:1. Selective Training and Service Act■what is a home front?◦what your doing in your home■Selective servace and training act 1940■this is basically a draft■first peace time draft in us history used intill 1973■after 73 military relied on volenteers2. Women's role in WWII■ women were conserned with losing there feminine image■rosie the riviter potrayed that women could work■women also nursed men back to health■they taught■did laundry■women were vital in the war■waves in women in the navy■wasp is women version in the airfforce3. African-American's role in WWII■ broke through the racial barrier■they made things and fought on the front lines■they did all while being descriminated against4. Asian's role in WWII■ same as women and blacks5. Hollywood's role in WWII■ hollywood made propiganda films■to buy war bonds and they sent people over seas to entertain troopsbob hope toured and intertained in alot of warskilroy was here helped the us with propraganda6. Office of Price AdministrationOPA was set up in 1941 to deal with rationing of goods and price controls. Food rationing included restrictions on on sugar and meat. Gasoline was rationed to 5 gallons a week. Cars had certain stickers so people would know how many gallons each car could get. With rationing came lines people had to be patient they had to wait because they was such a limited amount of food.7. War Production BoardWhen the government comes together they join together to get the job done.8. National War Labor Board9. Why the Homefront helped win the war10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)13. Battle in Africa and Italy14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradleymarshall■he had a desk job and was the head of the us military15. D-Day-Operation Overlord16. Battle of the Bulge17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over18. VE Day19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,20. Navajo Code Talkers21. Doolittle's Raid22. Manhattan Project23. Hiroshima bombing24. Nagasaki bombing25. VJ Day26. Yalta Conference27. Nuremburg Trials28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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