home front, passed in 1940, peacetime draft, drafted me just in case, used until 1973, from there volunteers filled in
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; Bob Hope comedian/singer/actor, USO tour, got singer actors comedians to go over and entertain troops; John Wayne major actor
6. Office of Price Administration
1941 to set up rations and price control, some rations were restrictions on sugar, meat, silk, and nylon eventually gas, stickers based on what job you have A common American 4 gal, B war workers more gas or C vital jobs more gas, T truckers unlimited gas, black market develops, stealing and counterfeit stickers
7. War Production Board
tried to get everyone to pitch in and make supplies for the war
8. National War Labor Board
got workers and owners to work together so the workers would strike hurting the war effort
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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