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 river was to show that women need to step up and work in the factory
*What they did during WWII
-Worked in factories
-nurses
-Secrutaries
-Typed for the government
-Farm workers
-Waitress
-Taxi drivers
-Bus drivers
-Messengers
-Teachers
-Conducters
-Photographer
*WAC is the Woments Army Core
*Waves is the Womens Navy
*WASP is the Womens Army Service Pilots
-Test airplanes
3. African-American's role in WWII
*They fought in the military
*They had seperate combat units
*They worked as cargo handlers and cooks
*They had to be superfised by whites
*Black women could still work as nurses
*Tuskegee Airmen were most famous African American pilots in WWII, they flew in the Italian Campaign
4. Asian's role in WWII
*They had to wear buttons to show their race
*They were farmers and factory workers
*Still fought in the war
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
*They provided alot of commericals to get peole to support the war
*Movies were a huge impact as well
*Cary Grand was a big actor during the day
*Bob Hope and the USO Tour was aimed at entertaning soldiers
*USO is the United Service Organization used to entertain members of the military
*From 1941 to 1947 the USO presented more than 400,000 performances
*Bing Crosby sang to the troops
6. Office of Price Administration
*The OPA was the first to discover the idea of ration books
*There were red and blue points that were used as a stirct amount of money for familes
*Delt with rationing- Only can get so much
*Even if they could afford it, they could not buy anymore than the ration books told them
*Dont use the ration book once a person dies, you must return it
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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