On this day we continued blog discussion. Here's the notes overall, including some from yesterday.
Selective Training and Service Act-Happened in 1940. First peacetime draft in the US. Used until 1973. Afterwards depended on volunteers.
Women in WWII-Women were represented by Rosie the Riveter, mainly workers. Also worked on farms, as typist, bus drivers, taxi drivers, timekeepers, elevator operators, messengers, laundresses, teachers, conductors.
African American's Role-Rights were not equal yet, so black soldiers/African American soldiers, were not as well respected. Secondary roles were common.
Asian American's Role-Volunteers for the most part, not drafted. Wore buttons that told them apart from the enemy.
OPA: Maintained prices of houshold items during WWII to prevent another depression, which we were just getting out of. Limited the number of purchases. Last time United States rationed food.
Hollywood's Role: Films were used as propeganda. Dozens were made about the war during wartime. Were very patriotic. USO recruited entertainers to entertain the troops in WWII.
War Production: The United States was bent on producing for the war. Vehicles, guns, etc.
Home Front Winning War: We produced so many war goods that it was impossible for us not to win the war. Also women working and African-Americans and Asian-Americans. Hollywood gets credit as well.
Convoy System: Great Britain and the US were taking hard hits from German U-Boats and decided they would make it easier so that merchant ships could survive. They did this by surrounding them with allied forces fighting against German ships and other U-Boats.
Codes: Deciphering codes was a key to victory for either side, and a few years into the war Germany had deciphered Britain's code, so GB had to change it.
Magic: The way the United States broke codes. Was used mainly against the Japanese to decipher codes. They would recieve a message/steal a message and put it through a machine, translate the message from Japanese to Latin to English. There it would be sent further to Generals, Preisdents, and Colonels, etc.
Ultra: The way Great Britain broke codes. Was used mainly against the Germans to decipher codes. Used the same process as Magic.
Barbarosa: In summer 1941 Hitler turns on Soviet Union. Lebensraum means living space, where Germans will live in Russia.
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