Blog discussion today. No assigned blog for this week!!
Notes:
US Homefront:
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
- they would help make weapons and things for the war to send off to the troops
- grew and canned their own food
- took over many other jobs
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought in the military
- the blacks civil rights leaders made seperate units
- worked as cargo handlers and cooks
4. Asian's role in WWII
- fought in the war
- worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- made movies and shows to try and get people to join the war
- entertained the troops
6. Office of Price Administration
- was the first to discover ration books
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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