US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act (1940)
*people who were 18 years of age or older had to go to war
*first peacetime draft in US history
*after 1973 we went back to volunteer
2. Women's role in WWII
*women started doing "men's work" during the war-worked in factories and produced goods for the war
*no women were in combat-nursing was as close as you could get
*women had a huge impact on the outcome of the war
3. African-American's role in WWII
*segregated during the war-had their own companies/units
*not front line fighting at first-cooks, janitors-many jobs similar to women jobs at home
4. Asian's role in WWII
*Americans were suspicious of them-often relocated and sent to camps
*some were drafted and proved their loyalty-had to wear special tags to distinguish them
*had same jobs as women/blacks on the homefront
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
*USO was established
*newsreels were played before the feature film-had actual footage of war
*Bob Hope was a comedian that went overseas to entertain the troops in Europe and the Pacific
*Looney Tunes had many propaganda elements worked into their episodes
6. Office of Price Administration
*established price controls
*set up the ration coupon system
*had propaganda pieces for the war
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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