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Wednesday, March 28

Today was a blog discussion day.

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

  • Allowed people who were 18 to go into the army.
  • It was the draft and forced them to go.
  • Used until 1973 to fill military needs.
  • After 1973 U.S. millitary depended on volu
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Wednesday, March 28th

12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)

  • Hitler ordered troops to surround Leningrad and cut off supplies
  • Invaded Stalingrad
  • Largest military battle in history
  • Wanted to invade and conquer to have a place for pure Germans to live
  • wanted farmland and oil
  • H
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Wednesday March 28th

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

  •  First peacetime draft in US History
  • Used until 1973 to fill military needs
  • After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs

2. Women's role in WWII

  •  Women started working and like helping ou
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Wednesday, March 28th

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

*It allowed people that were eighteen to go into the war

*First peacetime draft in US History

*Used until 1973 to fill military needs

*After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs

2. Wome

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Wednesday, March 28th 2012.

Today we had our blog discussions of the following topics:

 

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

Allowed people who were 18 to go into the military. Set up the draft (United States institute drafts to try to get their numbers up.

First pe

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Wednesday, March 29th, 2012

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 -First draft in history.. younger people sent to war

 

2. Women's role in WWII

-played a huge role

-did factory work, were nurses..

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

-many were drafted

-the Tuskegee Airm

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wednesday March 28th

Blog discussions

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

  • passed in 1940
  • first draft in us history

2. Women's role in WWII

  • women took over making of food, war supplies, buisnesses
  • test airplaines
  • secretaries

3. African-American's role in WWII

  •  foug
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Selective Training and Service Act 1940

  • first peacetime draft in us history (we were not at war)
  • used until 1973 to fill military needs
  • After 1973 US military depended on volunteers to fill needs
  • basically forcing people to join the military

Women in WWII

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Wednesday, March 28th

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 First peacetime draft in US history. Passed in 1940 and was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs.

2. Women's role in WWII

 Rosie the Riv

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Wednesday March 28

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act 1940

  • Fist peacetime draft in US history- because we were not in the war yet 
  • Used until 1973 to fill military needs- after Vietnam
  • after 1973, US military depends on volunteers to fill needs

 

2. Women's

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March 28, 2012

Why Did Hitler Invade the Soviet Union?

Lebensraum

Despised the ethnic Slavs ruled ny their Jewish Bolshevic masters

Wanted Ukraine for farmland

Could use the people for slave labor

The deafeat of the USSR would further isolate the Allies

Wanted the oilfie

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March 28th 2012

US Homefront:

1. Selective Training and Service Act- 1940

  • It was the first peacetime draft in US History
  • Used until 1973 to fill military needs
  • After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs

2. Women's role in WWII

  • Women began to work as wait
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Wed. March 28, 2012

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

  • Passed in 1940
  • First peacetime draft in US history

2. Women's role in WWII

  • Rosie the Riviter- women labor poster
  • Worked in factories
  • Proformed men jobs
  • Made war materials
  • Red Cross, nurses, and other milita
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3/28

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 

2. Women's role in WWII

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

 

4. Asian's role in WWII

 

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

 

6. Office of Price Administration

 

7. War Production Board

 

8. National War Labor Board

 

9

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Wednesday, March 28

Blog discussion!


US Homefront: 

1. Selective Training and Service Act - 1940

  • First peacetime draft in US History
  • Used until 1973 to fill military needs
  • After 1973, US military depended on volunteers to fill needs

2. Women's role in WWII

  • Before the war, wome
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U.S. homefront

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

passed in 1940

 

2. Women's role in WWII

took over farms for the men in military

worked in factories

nurses

 

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

 

4. Asian's role in WWII

 

5. Hollywood's role in WWII

started

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Wednesday March 28th

On this day we continued blog discussion, so here are all of the notes I have taken over the last two days.

Selective Training and Service Act-Happened in 1940.  First peacetime draft in the US.  Used until 1973.  Afterwards depended on volunteers. 

Wo

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