First we talked about the blog and project that was coming up. Then we went through a couple people movie blogs. After we finished that we went through the powerpoint.
Selective Training and Service Act 1940
-First peacetime draft in the US history
-Used untill 1937 to fill military needs
-After 1973, US military depended on voluteers to fill needs
George C. Marshall
-cheif of staff of the US Military during WWII
Women in WWII
-Rosie the River
-represented women worker in WWII
-women were nurses, and would travel
-they were pushing for women to get war jobs
-women army corps was a bunch of jobs women could do and work for the government
-the Waves
-the women that would work for the Navy
-Wasp
-womens air force
-women would fly the planes only to trasport them
-Tokyo Rose
-forced to broadcast propoganda to the Allied troops for Japan
-In these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home to try to make the soldiers homesick
-She was a US citizen that was convicted of treason
-African women were also involved
African Americans in WWII
-they were seperated to only black units
-Asian Americans had the same deal, and worked in the Factories
-Henry Kaiser
-ship builder, and owned the company that built ships
a reason we won the war was becuase we built so much, like military supplies and weapons.
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