US Homefront:
1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940- first peacetime draft in US history. used until 1973 to fulfill military needs
after 1973, the US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter-woman on the poster representing women workers in WWII
women worked in factories: concerns they had-getting muscles, breaking nails, getting dirty
became nurses and nursed men who had been hurt in the war
women stenographers, farm workers, sales people, waitresses, bus drivers, taxi drivers, time keepers, elevator operators, messengers, laundresses, teachers, conductors
army- womens army corp (WAC) didnt fight, typing, filing, photography "women's work"
navy- waves (women's navy) once again, no fighting.. telephone operators, secretary work
airforce- WASP women's army service pilots.. test planes, transport planes from point a to point b.
- "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri: forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for Japan. in these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home. she was a US citizen in Japan and was convicted of treason for this.
3. African-American's role in WWII
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
entertained troops
put out propaganda films trying to get people to hate the axis powers/get people to buy war bonds
6. Office of Price Administration
deals with price controls & rationing.. food, gas, clothing.. etc
gas- 5 gallons of gas/week.. half of americans recieved 4 gallons of gas/week and they were given an A sticker
The other half of automobiles were issued a B sticker or C sticker, which was given to people with vital occupations such as doctors
Truckers had a sticker for unlimited amounts
black market for stickers because people needed things and were being denied them by the government
original books contained 28 stamps/book.. also not allowed to give away your war ration stamps
7. War Production Board
encouraged home front to make things as effectively and efficiently as they could-pretty successful
8. National War Labor Board
tried to make sure owners and workers got along.. the government really didn't want any strikes to go on during the war times
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
29. Why did we win WWII?
people like Henry Kaiser.. who are the people who had factories and used it to make all the "stuff" we needed for the war.
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