Monday March 26

[5 cesar]

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act 1940

• Fist peacetime draft in US history- because we were not in the war yet 
• Used until 1973 to fill military needs- after Vietnam
• after 1973, US military depends on volunteers to fill needs

 

2. Women's role in WWII

- Traditionally just stayed at home, and were thought not to be as strong as men                                            - worked in factories, red cross,farm workers, waitress, teachers, bus drivers, messengers, laundresses, conductors, jobs that men traditionally had                                                                                                                                                                     -Rosie The riboter- used in propaganda

-waves- woman's navy- many worked in the military, not directlyl but in training, testing, etc

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

•  many of them volunteered to fight in ww2, they fought pretty good, the were segregated because they thought that they could not fight as well.
• Tuskegee Airmen- were the most famous- great bombing campaigns, showed that African American were good fighters, they really proved themselves in ww2

4. Asian's role in WWII

•  many volunteered, they had to wear badges, that way they would be thought to be original Japanese soldiers.
• If they did not fight they would stay at home and work in factories, and stuff.

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

• 
  Started making a lot of movies showing how bad the German's were- propaganda
• Bob hope- he worked with the U.S.O to help the troops to entertain the troop- no profit, still around today, since 1941.
• watch candy man video from Cristina Aguilera

 

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