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Today mr bruns reviewed what we talked about yesterday.
US Homefront:
Homefront is what your doing at home.
1. Selective Training and Service Act-
-Passed in 1940
-First peace time draft in US history
-Used until 1973 to fill military needs
-After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs.
2. Women's role in WWII
-Rosie the Riveter- represented the women in WWII
-women worked in factories to help make supplies for the war
-women also became nurses for the war. many of them met their husbands during war.
-many propaganda posters were displayed to help convince women to join the war
-WAVES- Women's Navy- women would be secretaries and making phone calls
-each military brach had different jobs for women
-WASP- Womens army service pilots
-Iva Toguri (tokyo rose)-
-was forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for japan
-she was a US citizen in Japan that taunted the troops and played music from home.
-she was later convicted of treason
3. African-American's role in WWII-
-served as pilots or flyboys
-they made things in the factories
-they bombed enemies
-and fought in the front line
4. Asian's role in WWII-
-same as african americans
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-entertained troops by making propaganda for the war
-sent people overseas to entertain troops
-made WWII movies
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-
-Cheif of Staff of the US miliary during WWII
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 the allies win WWII?
-Henry Kaiser built many ships and he owned many companies and hired women to help make ships for the war
-the United States was able to make for supplies than any other country which led to the allies winning WWII
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