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US Homefront:
what people are doing back home to win the war
1. Selective Training and Service Act:
1940- first peacetime draft in US history
used until 1973 to fill military needs
after 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
people lied about their age to get into the war
2. Women's role in WWII:
Rosie the Riveter- represented women workers in ww2
just like in ww1, women took men's jobs
more women got involved and for longer periods of time
women were worried that they would loose their femininity
women were a big factor in why we won the war
many women were nurses and took care of injured troops
women were:
farmers
messengers
teachers
conductors
WAC- women's army corps- women's version of the war
WAVES- women's navy
WASP- women's army service pilots
"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri- forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for japan
made troops homesick
was convicted of treason; was a US citizen
3. African-American's role in WWII:
blacks and whites were not mixed in the military; and same thing with other minorities
many african-americans fought in the war
at first weren't allowed to fight; but then they got to and fought very well
4. Asian's role in WWII:
asian-americans went through the same things ^
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
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:
George C. Marshall- chief of staff of the US military during ww2; head of everything basically
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
29. Why we won:
Henry Kaiser- owned a ship building company: industrialist
we made so much more stuff than other countries
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