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US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
- passed in 1940
- first draft in us history
2. Women's role in WWII
- women took over making of food, war supplies, buisnesses
- test airplaines
- secretaries
3. African-American's role in WWII
- fought/ worked in factories
4. Asian's role in WWII
- fought/ worked in factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
- made holocost movie which forced hate torwards natzi's
- entertained troops and homefront
- propaganda
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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