Monday, March 26

Blog discussion!

US Homefront:

1. Selective Training and Service Act - 1940

2. Women's role in WWII

Before the war, women's roles were to take care of children, cook, clean, etc.
During the war, they took the roles of men in the factories and farms
Worked as nurses to take care of injured soldiers
Many got war jobs as secretaries, etc.
Farm workers, typist, sales people, waitress, teachers, bus drivers, taxi drivers, time keepers, conductors, etc.
Rosie the Riveter
Women's Air Force Service - women would learn to fly, test planes, transport supplies, etc.
WAC - Women's Army Corp - didn't fight at all
WAVES - Women's Navy
Many worked in military but did not fight on front lines - did a lot of work like testing, etc.
Tokyo Rose - American-Japanese woman who did radio broadcasts in Japan to make American soldiers miss being home

3. African-American's role in WWII

At the beginning of the war they were cooks and things like that because everyone believed they were unable to do things like be a pilot or fight
Tuskegee Airmen

4. Asian's role in WWII

Many Japanese/Chinese volunteered to fight - when they fought they had to wear badges on their uniform to show that they were Japanese
Served as translators
Fought valiantly in World War II for America

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

Before the US was involved, Hollywood made a lot of movies about Nazi Germany
Warner Brothers
Propaganda - make the enemy look bad
Try to make people do their jobs
Show footage from the war
Make Japanese and Hitler look like idiots
Bob Hope was born in Britain and was a great comedian, actor, dancer, etc.
He got into TV and had a comedy show
Best known for his work with troops - worked with United States Armed Forces and United Service Organization (USO)
He worked to entertain troops - 400,000 performances
Honored with humanitarian award

6. Office of Price Administration

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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