Today Mr. Bruns gave us the WWII Part Two test information. These will be the test questions. Then he started presenting his powerpoint.
U.S. Homefront: What people do at home to help with the war.
1. 1940 Selective Training and Service Act:
- First peacetime draft in U.S. History
- Passed by FDR who really wanted the U.S. to get into the war
- Even though we were officially a neutral country, FDR knew that we would eventually get into the war
- Congress passed this act so that we would fill our military needs
- When a draft comes around and your name is called, you would have to go and serve in the war
- This was used until 1973
- After 1973, the U.S. military used volunteers instead
2. Women's Role in WWII
- Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WWII
- She was the poster child for women--"We Can Do It!"
- This encouraged them to keep working in the factories because they were afraid that they would lose their feminine side
- Women were very much needed so working in the factories helped them to get more rights
- Another popular job for women was being a nurse
- This was also a very important role for them and many of them met their future husbands in this way
- Women were also needed as waitresses, elevator operators, messengers, teachers, conductors and many other jobs that men would typically do
- Propaganda posters told the women that we would win sooner if they got involved
- WAC: the Women's Army Corps worked with testing things, typing, and desk jobs such as making maps and producing photography
- WAVES was the women's navy, they would become secretaries and answer phones
- WASP was the women's equivelant of the airforce
- They would test out new airplanes and transport them from place to place
- Every branch of the military had their own form for women
3. African-American's role in WWII:
- African Americans were segregated from Whites in WWII
- All other races were seen as inferior to the whites
- Many African Americans joined the war and became pilots and fought on the front lines against the enemy
- The Tuskegee Airmen were black pilots
4. Asian's role in WWII:
5. Hollywood's role in WWII:
- Hollywood made propaganda films and entertained troops
- This encouraged people to buy war bonds and go overseas to entertain troops
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 (head honcho) of the U.S. Military 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?
- With women working in the factories, we had more supplies than the other countries did
- Henry Kaiser owned a shipping company that hired a lot of women and other minorities
- He produced a lot of ships for the war
- The U.S. was the biggest power in the war because of our industrialization
- We were able to make the supplies we needed
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