Bruns interrogated Ryan to start off the class period..
everything from here on out for blog posts will be 40 points
2 pictures 2 sources for blog assignment
1. Selective Training and Service Act
homefront-what we are doing back home to help win the war
-instituted the US draft (1st peacetime draft in US history)
-used until 1973
2. Women's role in WWII
-worked in factories (represented by Rosie the Riveter)
-worked as nurse, farm workers. typist, sales people, bus driver, taxi driver, time keeper, elavator operation, laundry, teacher, conductor
-waves for women (navy)
3. African-American's role in WWII
-minority men worked in factories or were in the war.. faced discrimination and segregation
4. Asian's role in WWII
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
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
Why did the Allies win WWII?
women working in the factories (:
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