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yeah....
1. Selective Training and Service Act
peacetime draft
used till 1973
after 73 military depended on volunteers
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter
Women in the work force
Factories
Nurses
couldnt win without them
Farmers and a lot of others
women's division
3. African-American's role in WWII
1/2 million served in britan... werent allowed on front lines..
fought valiantly
4. Asian's role in WWII
werent drafted but volunteered
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
big stars enlisted
propoganda
heritage
USO
Bob Hope
Judy Garland
Marx Brothers
Lucille Ball
Pin-Up Girls
WWII made During WWII
6. Office of Price Administration
they maintained prices of household products
limited how much people could buy
stamps
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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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