BLOG DISCUSSION:
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- First peacetime draft in US history
- Used until 1973 to fill military needs
- After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riveter was the iconic woman.
- The US produced a TON during WWII
- They worked in factories
- They were nurses
- Secretaries for the military. Typists.
- famers
- waitresses
- drivers
- laundresses
- teachers
-every branch of the the military had a woman's place WAC- Women's Army Corp
WAVES, women's Navy
WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought in the military
-Had segregated units
-worked as cargo handlers and cooks.
- watched over and controlled by white men
-Black women worked as nurses, factories
-More black man volunteered to fight than white men, but a ton of them were turned down because of their skin color.
- Made up 10% of US forces in Southeast Asia.
- Tuskegee Airmen- all black male pilots.
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Had to deal with discrimination
- They fought valiantly
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Provided a lot of commercials and cartoons that supported the war/ military.
- Got people to buy war bonds for the troops
- Casa Blanca is one of the most famous WWII movies
- USO is United Service Organizations Inc.Its a private non-profit organization to entertain the troops.
6. Office of Price Administration
- First to discover the idea of ration books
- There were red points and blue points
- They were only given enough to buy supplies for their family.
- They couldn't buy more than what the ration books allowed
- They can only be used by or for the name on it.
- EVEN kids were given ration books.
- You have to report it if you lose our ration book.
- Was no rationing of horse meat.
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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