Today we finished our WW2 Blog Disscussions. We double-checked our projects.
I have Eisenhower and #5 For the Cold War Project. (Powerpoint)
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Military Needs
-First Peacetime draft (up to 1973)
-U.S depended on volunteers to fill military needs
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women started working in Factories and made military goods.
-Women were a big success in WW2
-They deserve some credit for winning the war.
(Factories, nurses, type-writers)
3. African-American's role in WWII
-Worked on planes, and fixed some up.
-Factories.
4. Asian's role in WWII
-Discrimination but they did work on plans and fixed some up.
-Fought in the war
-Worked in Factories
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
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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
Marshall-Boss of every other Guy on this list. Cheif of U.S Military
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 we win World War 2?
-We had a lot of ships and made so much more stuff for military needs.
-We had so many products.
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