Tuesday 29th

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 The Draft. Sign up for selective service at 18.

 

2. Women's role in WWII

 Women paid a huge role---manufacturing, factories, stuff. Rosie the Rivetor. Nursing on the front lines was very needed.  Wrote death notices. Photography, Cartogrophy. 

WAVES- Women's Navy. Telephone operators.

Women's Army Service Pilots- Women's Airforce

Tokyo Rose- U.S. Citizen in Japan. Forced to broadcast propoganda to the Allies for Japan. Taunted the troops and played music from home.

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

 Did everything a white man would do; fought on the seas, land, and sky. But segregated units.

4. Asian's role in WWII

 Same as all minorites; just segregated.

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

 Marshall- Cheif of Staff; U.S. Military.

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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