Mr. Bruns rambled for the vast majority of the first half of class about blog assignments and other projects, then we started actually learning. Surprise there.
US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Instituted the U.S. draft. First peacetime draft in U.S. history, was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After that, the military depended on volunteers.
George C. Marshall was the cheif of staff during WWII.
2. Women's role in WWII
Took over men's jobs. (Rosie the Riveter) Nursing. Typists, making equipment and ammunition. WASP; Women's Army Service Pilots; tested planes, transported them. Tokyo Rose forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan. She taunted the troops and played music from home. She was a U.S. citizen and was convicted of treason.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Fought in infantry, flied airplanes.
4. Asian's role in WWII
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
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
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