We continued the assigned blog #6
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.
2. Women's role in WWII
US homefront US made way more than other countries. Nurses, bus drivers, time keepers, teachers. every branch of the army had a woman branch. Womans army corps. Womens Navy typers and secretaries. WASP Women's Army Service Pilots.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Gave them worse jobs and let them go in first and their were more african americans that volunteered than whites.
4. Asian's role in WWII
Had to wear a button so people knew they were US citizens. Farmers and fought
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Made cartoons and movies to help war efforts and to have people donate money for the war efforts. Bob Hope famous comedian, sang, and danced and he would entertain the troops. The USO- United Service Organization none profit organization that entertains the troops.
6. Office of Price Administration
OPA first to discover a ration book. each family would get a ration book so they could spend what they needed not how much they wanted.
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
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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