Tuesday March 29, 2011

Today i got assigned to my assignment. 17, the fall of communisum and the end of the cold war, explain how it all went down.

  Today we're talking about Selective Training Service act 1940. It was the first peacetime draft in US History, used until 1973 to fill military needs, after 1973 US military depended on vounteers to fill needs.

   George C. Marshall, cheif of staff of the US Military during World War Two.

 

  Women in WWII,   Rosie the Riveter, represented women workers in WWII. Women did alot more then just workin in factorys, the were nurses and took care of the hurt men.  farmers, typest, conductors, waitresses, are some other jobs for the women at the time. Womens Army Corps, WAC.

                 WASP, Womens Army Service Piloets

 

          Tokyo Rose, Iva Toguri, forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan, in these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home, she was a US citizen in Japan, and was convicted for treason.

 

                 Arican Americans in WWII, blacks and whites were not mixed, the black units and the white units were seperated. The African AMericans in WWII did alot for the war, by rebuilding tings, helping people, they fought in the war, they flew planes. they did everything the whites did.

 

  Henry Kaiser, he was a ship builder. He's the guy that had the company. By the end of the war we had so many ship, that half of why we won the war was because we had the planes, the tanks, the ships, the weapons.

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