Today we will be doing blog discussion. No blog assignment this week. Websites are graded today.
US Home-front:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-First peacetime draft in U.S. histroy
-Used until 1973 to fill military needs
-After 1973, U.S. military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
-Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WW2
-When men went to war the women would stay home and help by working in the factory
-Nursing was a big thing that women did.
-Women played as secretaries to send letters and ect. to the families of lost loved ones.
-women worked as farmers, waitresses, typers, elevator operators, teachers, conductors, and other things that men usually worked.
-every branch of military had an army core. WAC-Women's Army Core. They did things to help the military like photography, and helping in factories. WAVES- Women in the navy. They did claricle things. WASP-Women's Army Service Pilots. They tested new aircraft
-Important to can food
3. African-American's role in WWII
-Half a million that served in Europe but were "unfit" people. They were segregated from white. They weren't deemed able to fight in front lines at first.
- Fought in WW2. not seen as people who could fight in front lines. They were cooks and engineers to start off with.
-Worked with white soldiers. Many worked in factories and farms.
4. Asian's role in WWII
-They volunteered. 2 groups of them got purple hearts. They had to wear buttons that say they were Japanese, Asian, and so forth.
-They did interpreting for some of them. Many fought well for out country but were discriminated.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- let some of their biggest stares enlist in the war.
-Movies were big propaganda to stay positive or join the army.
-Showed America's heritage and patriotism.
-Some movies showed what was going on over seas.
-used to relax people.
-Entertain the troops.
-Bob hope- was a entertainer. Comedian, singer, actor.
-USO is a non-profit organization that provides entertainment to members of the U.S. military since 1941 and is still around. Bob hope was a big part of this.
-From 1941 to 1947 the USO presented more than 400,000 performances.
- Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Bob Hope.
6. Office of Price Administration
-Maintained the price of household items during the war.
-They put a limit on how much people could buy.
-people were given ration stamps and had only so many. The ration stamps would last a week before more are given.
-You can't give out your excess stamps to anyone else. You could only use your own.
-We had to cutback to help ration to help with our soldiers and allies.
-Sugar, meat, clothes, gas were all rationed.
-Most people had A sticker which allowed 4 gallons a weeks. B stickers and c stickers were better
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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