Today we had our blog discussions of the following topics:
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
Allowed people who were 18 to go into the military. Set up the draft (United States institute drafts to try to get their numbers up.
First peacetime draft in US history.
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter represented women in WWII.
Women started working -Factories, nursing, secretaries, farm workers, sales people, waitresses, bus and taxi drivers. --Couldn't win the war without them!
WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots-Flew and test planes.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Many volunteered to fight into the war; Segregated Units.
Not able to fight in the front lines; put off as more as custodians, factories and farmed.
Tuskegee Airman proved that the black can fight in WWII- Did outstanding in their bombing campaign.
4. Asian's role in WWII
Asian's had to wear tags that they were Japanese American soldiers.
They were allowed to fight and not put into segregated units.
They stepped up to the plate and fought for our country; many worked to help bring the war back home just like other Americans.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
USO-entertaining the people of the US military; Bob Hope.
United Service Organization^^
Looney Tunes would do a lot of propagandas (as well as entertain)
6. Office of Price Administration
-Established in 1941; Set up by FDR- Set up how much the ration coupon books- Also set up propaganda pieces; help us win 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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