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and #4 cold war project-power point (200 points) mc carthy and mcarthism.
-remember to make project creative and involve the audience.
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ww2 part 2 test info-can't find what i'm supposed to copy and paste
US Homefront: your country and what its doing to support the war
1. Selective Training and Service Act-pres wanted war but congress declares war, thus ST&SA, instituted the US draft. first peacetime draft in US history, used until 1973 to fill military needs. after 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs. he wanted to be ready for the war. now we just volunteer.
2. Women's role in WWII-rosie the riveter, we can do it. our win came from women picking up the work in the factories so we would have lots of stuff. some women were concerned that they wouldn't be so feminine-too many worry about that today-but rosie the riveter was showing them that they could be both. she was a fictional character. they also worked as nursing. women also typed a lot. other-farm workers, typiest, sales people, waitresses, bus taxi drivers, elavator operators, laundry, teachers, and conductors ect. every military had its own women version but they weren't fighting they were doing homefront jobs for that branch specifically. WAVES - womens navy. WASP- pilots-they flew planes as test pilots and to Point B from A. Tokyo Rose, Iva Toguri. forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for Japan. in the radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home. She was a US citizen in Japan. Convicted of treason.
3. African-American's role in WWII-also native americans and hispanics. big part of war. still segrated. joined army or worked in factories. fought on front lines that flew planes. they usually had their own unit. one unit of planes did very well in italy.
4. Asian's role in WWII-had a similar story.
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- marshal-chief of staff of us military during wwII.
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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