US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- Passed in 1940
- First peacetime draft in US history
2. Women's role in WWII
- Rosie the Riviter- women labor poster
- Worked in factories
- Proformed men jobs
- Made war materials
- Red Cross, nurses, and other military organisations
- Test airplanes- WASP- but didn't fight or drop bombs
- Secrataries for the govn't and war effforts
- Farm Workers
3. African-American's role in WWII
- Segrigaated but faught in war
- Red Tails- great pilots and fighters
- Work at farms and factories
4. Asian's role in WWII
- Faught- war badges to show they were not from Japan
- Were translaters
- Worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Made videos that illistrated hate to Germany
- Bob Hope- born in Brittan- great American commidian, writer, and worked with troops UnitedServiceOrganisation
- Entertained troops and homefront
- Propoganda
- News Reels
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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