Today we had blog discussion
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act-
- Known as the draft forced people to go and fight for the US
- 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 taking the man's jobs since he was at war.
- Each military branch had a woman's department they didn't fight
- Became nurses
3. African-American's role in WWII
- They were segregated from the whites in the military
- They weren't aloud to fight in the front lines so they became janitors and cooks
- If they didn't fight they worked in factories and farmed
4. Asian's role in WWII
- They were forced from their homes.
- Lots of Japanese Americans joined the military to prove their loyalty
- They had to wear tag to show they were Japanese American soldiers
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- Some Comedies went over and entertained the soldiers(USO)t.
- Looney Toons meant for propaganda and entertainment.
- Lots of clips of the news to catch up on the war.
6. Office of Price Administration
- Set up by FDR
- Passed before we were involved in WWII
- 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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