Today we went over blogs that are due in the coming weeks. And over the project that will be due in the upcoming weeks. The homefront is what the people back home are doing to help with wars and what not. And I talked to mr bruns about the game homefront which has yet to come out. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. First peacetime draft in US history. Used until 1973 to fulfill military needs. After that US depended on volunteers to fill its needs. Chief of Staff of the US military during WWII was George C. Marshall. He was the guy who above all the excellent Generals who fought in WW2. Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WW2. Women would always type and nurse and other jobs of that nature. They were also drivers, messengers conductors teachers laundriers and other jobs that women had to fill that men previously did. WAC womens army core. Women did not directly fight in the war they tested things delivered things made things and other things like that. WASP- Womens Army Service Pilots women that flew planes and tested and moved them wherever needed and stuff like that. African Americans in WW2 they were segragrated against even in the war. Asian Americans were also discriminated agianst. by the end of ww2 we were building more ships then the rest of the world combined we were building more stuff than the rest of the world. We had a vast economic potential which was realized during the war.
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