1940 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
George C. Marshall
Cheif of Staff of the US Military during WW2
Women in WW2
Rosie the Rivete
r women idolze her. Resblem working and girly.
Toyko Rose
A spy
forced to broadcast propganda against Allies for Japan
Henry Kaiser
A shipping buildings company
to build military boats
Rationing
Gas
Food
Horse meat was not rationed
War Production Board
make sure their was productio
Post D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
October 1944
Allies captured German town of Aaechen
This was Germany's last chance to win the war.
Germans were pushed back
Little happened
Lost 120,000 soldiers
600 tanks
Allies found Death Camps and they were shocked.
1,600 planes
Germans surrened April 25,1945
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