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
- Women started working and like helping out the war so they did the factory work
- Womens most important role was to become a nurse
- They also did a lot of secreterial work
- WASP- Women's Army Service Pilots
3. African-American's role in WWII
- 2.5 millions AA's registered for the draft
- But they were still segregated
- They weren't able to fight on the front lines and were given the jobs of janitors and cooks.
4. Asian's role in WWII
- After Pearl Harbor the Japanese were forced from their home into camps.
- Many Japanese born Americans gave a chance to show their loyalty
- They had to wear tags to show they were Asian
- 3/4 of Chinese weren't segregated
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
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6. Office of Price Administration
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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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