At the beginning of class today, Mr. Bruns double checked the blog assignments, and we finished discussing our wold war two movies.
Then we started the second part of discussing world war two.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-This was the first peace draft in US history. It drafted people into the war, without volunteering.
2. Women's role in WWII
-Women didn't seem to matter much during this time, until they had to go take over the men's jobs in factories. Rosie the Riveter was a symbol that showed women, it was okay. With them making a lot of the items for war, it helped us to win. They were also great nurses, farmworkers, typists, waitresses, elevator operators, teachers, conductors, and worked in the Womens Army Core (WAC). Women also had their own version of the navy called The WAVES in this they would work the phones and stuff.
3. African-American's role in WWII
- African American's were greatly segregated against in the wars. Many of them worked in factories, flew planes, and they had all black units, not with white.
4. Asian's role in WWII
- They were segregated against also, and had their own units also along with working in factories.
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
George C. Marshall- Chief of Staff of the US Military during WWII. He stayed in Washington D.C. controlled all the men in the military. President the only person above him.
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 we win World WarII? :
Henry Kaiser- He was a major ship builder/ industrialist. We built more ships, weapons, tanks airplanes than the Axis powers, that all the other countries couldn't keep up. It helped up majorly.
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