US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
*It allowed people that were eighteen to go into the war
*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 started working in factoriesand made stuff for the war
*Some women signed up to be secretaries and nurses in the war
*Rosie Riveter represented workers in WW2
3. African-American's role in WWII
*They were segragated into black/white units
*There were alot that registered for the draft
*They couldnt fight in the front lines
*They were made into cooks, janitors, and other things.
4. Asian's role in WWII
*Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes
*Alot of Americans born Japanese people joined the American military to prove their loyalty
* They had to wear a tag to show they were Japanese American soldiers
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
*Looney Toons and Bob Hope was a comedian
*He would go and talk to troops and get the moral up
*Had clippings of the News reels that they'd play before movies
6. Office of Price Administration
*Set up by FDR
*Passed before we were involved in WW2
*Set up the ration stamps (saying how much people could buy)
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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