Selective Training and Service Act 1940
- first peacetime draft in us history (we were not at war)
- used until 1973 to fill military needs
- After 1973 US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
- basically forcing people to join the military
Women in WWII
- women can help the war by working in the factories
- Rosie The Riveter- represented women workers in WWII
- they could do a lot more than working in the home
- women also were nurses to soldiers
- Waitresses, time keepers, elevator operators, teachers...
- every branch in the gov, had a section for women
- WAVES- womens navy
- WASP- womens army service pilots
- African American women also worked in factories
African- Americans In WWII
- half a million served in europe
- not allowed white soldiers
USO- United Service Organizations
- provided entertainment for the soldiers in the war
- presented performances all over the world to troops
4. Asian's role in WWII
- mos voluneteered
-had to wear badges
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
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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