Today Bruns started with his presentation.
-U.S. home front
-In 1940 the Selective Training and Service Act was started. It was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. It was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After that the U.S. military depended on volunteers to fill the needs.
-George. C. Marshall was the Chief of Staff of the U.S. military during WWII. This guy was the head honcho of the military. The only person who would have been above him was the president. He came up with the idea to give billions of dollars to the British to rebuild them.
-Women-
-Rosie the Riveter
-The women had big roles during WWII. They had to work and mostly they were factory workers. They didn’t like working in the factories because they thought that they would get big muscles like boys. They also had a lot more jobs then just the factories. The women would also work in the army and they would control the radios and testing planes and stuff like that.
-Tokyo Rose
-African Americans-
-They helped fight a lot, but they were segregated. They couldn’t mix and fight with whites, which I think is kinda dumb.
-Henry Kaiser-
He was a ship builder. He had the biggest ship building company and he was a major reason that we won the war.
-Hollywood produced a lot of good movies to show how good we were doing and to be thankful for the troops.
-Bob Hope was very famous. He started out as kind of a stand-up comedian. Bob would go and like entertain the troops along with like pin-up girls. Bing Crosby was also a singer.
-John Wayne was the most famous actor during this time. He made a lot of movies.
-OPA and rationing-
-They had a ration of food, milk, and gas. There were a lot of other rations as well. They had to put stickers on their cars so people would know how much gas they were allowed to get. Then people started stealing these stickers and selling them.
Eating horse meat is illegal in our country. Hah, Mr. Bruns just said that.
-They had a war production board and it was just to make sure that the factories were efficient and making all that they could.
-Rationing was not a good thing for us because people were used to getting things right away.
Then Nick did his presentation. It was after D-Day.
-The Battle of Bulge started in October 1944. The Allies captured a German town. The Germans then tried to recapture Belgian port of Antwerp. They just went into a field and tried to kill as many Americans as possible with machine guns. The Germans were pushed back. There last ditch effort didn’t really work to well. They lost a lot of people and tanks and stuff.
-Death Camps-
-The Allied troops moved east and the Soviet moved west. They found a death camp in July 1944. The S.S. guards tried to burn and bury the evidence. The Soviet found a thousand starving prisoners, and a storehouse containing 800,000 shoes.
On April 25, 1945 was the surrender. The Soviets stormed Berlin. Hitler was preparing for the end underground. He married Eva Braun on April 29th. He wrote his last address to the German people. Hitler blamed the Jews for starting and the Generals for not winning the war. Hitler shot himself while his wife drank poison. They were both then carried out and burned.
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