Reviewed topics from yesterday
Watched some videos of Disney cartoons about how Americans should buy war bonds, and how horrible the Nazis/Germany/Hitler were or was.
1. Selective Training and Service Act: Selective Training and Service Act~1940: First peacetime draft in US History. It was used until 1973 to fill military needs.
2. Women's role in WWII: They were teachers, conductors, laundresses, factory workers, and many other jobs. The women of that time were most definitely the United States' secret weapon to winning the war. The Women's Navy consisted of typists and secretaries to provide help the the soldiers. The WASP, (Women's Army Service Pilots), would test out combat planes and see if they would work correctly (never truly bombed anything).
3. African-American's role in WWII: More than half of the African Americans served in Europe, but there were seperate, segregated units. They worked as cargo handlers, cooks, along with other grubby jobs, and they always had to be supervised by white men. Black women worked as nurses. When called upon, more black men volunteered to fight than white men, but they were turned away because of their color. They made up about 10% of US forces in Southeast Asia. The Tuskegee Airmen were most famous because white men thought that they weren't good enough, but the Tuskegees proved them very wrong and were some of the best pilots of the Air Force.
4. Asian's role in WWII: They were also seen with a lot of discrimination because some people saw them as Japanese, or "Japs", even if they weren't even born in that part of Asia.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII: Mine (Hollywood provided commercials, cartoons, and movies that would spur the American public to support the military cause in WWII). USO: United Service Organization Inc. is a private, nonprofit organization that provides entertainment to members of the US military since 1941. Some examples are: Frank Sinatra, Laurel and Hardy, the Rockettes, Mickey Rooney, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, The Marx Brothers
6. Office of Price Administration: Mine (Rationing and about how the rationing process works)
7. War Production Board: plant a victory garden, buy war bonds, producing fuel and other resources that would give the economy a push.
8. National War Labor Board: do not talk about what your father/brother/spouse is doing overseas with other people...they could be a spy.
9. How the US Homefront helped win the war:
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats: the US tried to build ships that would be fast enough to outrun U boats. The U boats were deadly because they were so fast, so if the US would ever get into a tangle with one, then they would be able to escape (hopefully) without a problem. If we could dectect them with radar, then we could avoid them all together, which was essentially better.
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic: Churchill and Roosevelt knew the importnce of intelligence in safeguarding Allied commerce to defeat the Axis powers. So they would use Ultra/Magic in order to protect what was needed to help them win the war. Enigma was the system in which Germany transferred thier information through codes. Solving the Enigma codes was marked as one of the largest victories in WWII.
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:
29. Why did the Allies win WWII:
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