US History: Students will be given on WWII topic from below to research and write a blog about.
- The US Homefront;
Women's role;
- Vital role
- We worked for the men who was out at war.
- Nurse, farm, sales, bus drivers time keepers, messengers, teachers, conductors, typist.
- War jobs,
- WAC- Woman's army core.
- WAVES- Woman's navy
- WASP- Woman's Army Service Pilots
Factories
War Production Board
- Production of goods.
- Make as much stuff as you possibly can
National War labor Boards
- All about workers, government and workers owners to work together, and put away their differences.
War bonds
- Helped people pay for the war
Japanese relocation camps
- Rough
- innocent people
- people died.
- Much racism
- Mostly in the west
- 62% were US
- Kids were educated
- Got to play sports
Propaganda
- Persuading people to do things
- To buy war bonds,
- Enlist
- Makes US look good, and Germany bad.
- Everyone to do their part
- Urgency!
War rationing-Office of Price Administration
- 1942 the program set into place
- So the wealthy didn't buy all the food.
- Needed to save food for troops.
- Red and blue stamps
- You get certain gallons of gas per week.
- horse meet was not re
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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