Wednesday March 30, 2011

US Homefront:



1. Selective Training and Service Act
-Military Needs
-First Peacetime draft (up to 1973)
-U.S depended on volunteers to fill military needs

2. Women's role in WWII
-Women started working in Factories and made military goods.
-Women were a big success in WW2
-They deserve some credit for winning the war.
(Factories, nurses, type-writers)

3. African-American's role in WWII
-Worked on planes, and fixed some up.
-Factories.

4. Asian's role in WWII
-Discrimination but they did work on plans and fixed some up.
-Fought in the war
-Worked in Factories

5. Hollywood's role in WWII
-Provide Entertainment for the troops.
-Propaganda

6. Office of Price Administration
-Dealt with price controls and rations goods.

(food, clothing, silk, gas, toys)

-A stickers
-People had to stand in lines for sugar


7. War Production Board
-Encourage factories to make as many goods for the war as they could.

-Work hard and efficient

8. National War Labor Board
-Pay workers good

-treat them well so they will work more efficently.

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
Marshall-Boss of every other Guy on this list. Cheif of 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


29. Why did we win World War 2?
-We had a lot of ships and made so much more stuff for military needs.

-We had so many products.

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