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-The US Home front
- Women's role
- Played an important role in the war.
- Would stay home and work in the factories.
- Rosie the Riveter.
- We Can Do It!
- Represented women workers in WWII.
- When the men would come back the women would get sent off because they weren't needed anymore.
- Women were afraid of getting muscles while working.
- Women played a very large part in WWII by being nurses.
- Women's Army Corps.
- Women wouldn't fight in combat operations.
- They could do anything else such as, testing materials or objects.
- Factories-War Production Board
- What helped us make things for the army.
- Encouraged people not to be lazy on the job.
- Make us much as you possibly could as fast as you could.
- National War labor Board
- Together we win.- Labor Unions, Uncle Sam, workers, and owners.
- War bonds
- US government would sell these war bonds.
- The money would go to help out the army.
- The price depended on how much you were worth.
- After you bought them the face price went down 25%.
- I wasn't considered a tax per-say, but it was.
- Japanese relocation camps
- One of the things that America is not proud of.
- Was basically Americas concentration camps for the Japs.
- It wasn't us killing them but they would die from lack of doctoral need.
- It wasn't all bad, they were given jobs, education, and athletics.
- A civil service act was sent out to all Japanese Americans in 1993.
- The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was created as an apology.
- Propaganda
- mine.
- War rationing-Office of Price Administration
- The OPA dealt with rent, money flow, rationing goods.
- Rationing means saving.
- Food rationing included restrictions on sugar and meat; clothing rationing restricted silk and nylon.
- You could only get so much stuff. So much gas, so much food, so much clothes.
- At first no more than 5 gallons a week then eventually would turn to 4 gallons per week.
- You would be given stickers on how much you would get.
- Hollywood in WWII
- The story of "Kilroy was here"
US Fighting:
-US in Africa
-US in Italy
-D-Day
-US bombing of Germany
-VE Day and the story of Germany surrendering
-Battle of Coral Sea
-Battle of Midway
-Battle of Iwo Jima
-Battle of the Philippines
-Battle of Okinawa
-Hiroshima bombing
-Nagasaki bombing
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering
-Yalta Conference
-Potsdam Conference
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