US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-first peacetime draft in USA history
-used until 1943 to fill military needs
-after 1973, USA military depended on volunteers
2. Women's role in WWII
-Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WWII
-nurses, secretaries
-farm workers, waitresses, bus drivers, conductors, taxi drivers
-each division had a women's group (example: Women's Army Corps, clerical workers, Navy typists, WASPS (Women's Army Service Pilots))
-planting gardens and canning foods
3. African-American's role in WWII
-500,000ish that stepped up and fought valiently
-did not stand in front lines, segregated (many were cooks, mechanics, and such at first)
-Tuskegeee Airmen
-ended up working together with whites
4. Asian American's role in WWII
-not drafted but many volunteers
-wore buttons that kept them apart from the enemy, discrimination was there
-interpreters
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-some big stars enlisted
-movies were a big propaganda items
-entertainment for troops
-Bob Hope (most famous entertainer, singer, comedian for troops), part of USO (United Service Organization)
-Other USO entertainers- Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller
6. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
-maintained prices of household things
-ration stamps
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,
-Allies attack Japanese in the Guadalcanal Campaign
-Japan withdraws
Iwo Jima,
-First Allies attack on Japan at home
-Japanese dug in, outnumbered, no easy retreat
-"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" on Mount Suribachi by 5 US Marines, 1 US Navy Corpsman
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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