US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
First peacetime draft in US history. Passed in 1940 and was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter-women labor poster. Worked in factories and farmed because the men were over seas fighting. Preformed men jobs. Made war materials. Red Cross and older military organizations. Tested airplanes but didn't fight or drop bombs. Many worked in the military but did not in the front line.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Many black men volunteered. They were separated from the whites and were thought to of as not as good so most were cooks or other less menial jobs. Most famous were the Tuskegee Airmen. Worked at factories and on farms.
4. Asian's role in WWII
If they didn't fight they stayed at home and worked on farms and in factories. Wore badges to show that they were from the US. Were translators.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Made videos that illistrated hate to Germany. Bob Hope- born in Britian and was a great American comedian. USO: United Service Organization-tried to entertain American troops, propoganda, entertain people back home and get their mind off of the war, inspire people to do their part in the war, and there were news reels before movies instead of previews. USO presented performances with people like: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, The Marx Brothers, The Rockettes, Mickey Rooney, and most famously Bob Hope.
6. Office of Price Administration
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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