US Homefront:
Doing what you can at home to help the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
First peacetime draft in US history
2. Women's role in WWII
Women can do jobs that men can't do because they're gone. Rosie the Riveter ("we can do it", represented women working in facories), nurses, stenographers, farm workers, salespeople, waitresses, bus drivers, taxi drivers, time keepers, elevator operators, messengers, laundresses, teachers, conductors, army WAC, WAVES (women's navy), WASP, Tokyo Rose
3. African-American's role in WWII
Worked in factories, joined military, segregation, discrimination
4. Asian's role in WWII
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5. Hollywood's role in WWII
Entertained troops, put out propaganda films. USO tour sent actors overseas. Kilroy was here.
6. Office of Price Administration
Established to administer price controls, food rationing on sugar and meat, clothing on silk and nylon. Gasoline rationing, 5 gallons per week, automobiles issued stickers for importance and therefore more gas. Black market developed. Ration book.
7. War Production Board
Production wins war.
8. National War Labor Board
Make sure owners and workers get along.
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 (chief of staff of the US military during WWII)
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
30. Why We Won The War
We won the war because of women in factories. Henry Kaiser and people who had factories.
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