The Draft. Sign up for selective service at 18.
2. Women's role in WWII
Women paid a huge role---manufacturing, factories, stuff. Rosie the Rivetor. Nursing on the front lines was very needed. Wrote death notices. Photography, Cartogrophy.
WAVES- Women's Navy. Telephone operators.
Women's Army Service Pilots- Women's Airforce
Tokyo Rose- U.S. Citizen in Japan. Forced to broadcast propoganda to the Allies for Japan. Taunted the troops and played music from home.
3. African-American's role in WWII
Did everything a white man would do; fought on the seas, land, and sky. But segregated units.
4. Asian's role in WWII
Same as all minorites; just segregated.
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Propoganda in movies, drive american patriotism, advertise war bonds. (Wake Island, Guadicanal Diary, Destination Tokyo, Casablanca), entertainers sent overseas to boost moralle of troops. Muy Importante.
6. Office of Price Administration
Administered Price Controls. Controlled rationing. Gas rationing begain in 1942 limiting use to 5 gallons per week. Stickers were allotted to people and automobiles to gage how muc gas could be bought. Stamps were also used to buy food, but when those stickers were done, yeah, you were done buying. Lots of black markey buying.
7. War Production Board
Tons and tons of stuff; promoted more work, more production, so on and so forth. DON'T WASTE TIME!!!
8. National War Labor Board
Wanted all the workes and employers to get along; lots of love. Three-way handshakes.
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
People like Henry Kaiser, industrialists who assisted in making STUFF for the war effort.
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
Marshall- Cheif of Staff; U.S. Military.
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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