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Tuesday, March 27

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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3/27

Blog Discusson

 

Gage

How the US fought back against German U-Boats

-German UBoats sunk thousands of allied ships.

 

Ultra & Magic

-Ultra was the British Code name used for intercepting for German codes.

-they copied Germans machines

-Germany sent out stuff i

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Tuesday, March 27th

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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March 27, 2012

Rationing

Could not share stamps, one of the things most people did was can there own food.

One of the most popular meats was horse meet because it wasn't rationed

War Production Board-Dirk

a government agency started by FDR to produce war materials, the

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3-27-12

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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Tuesday, March 27, 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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Assigned Blog #6

US General Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880, in Little Rock, Arkansas.  His father was Arthur MacArthur who was an army captain and his mother was Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur.  When he was young, he lived in remote sec

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Tuesday March 27th

On this day we continued blog discussion.  Here's the notes overall, including some from yesterday.

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

Women in W

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Tuesday, March 27

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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tues 3-27-2012

Blog Disc.

 

 

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act- first peace time draft in US history

 

2. Women's role in WWII-worked in factorys, nurses, farm workers, bus drivers, taxi drivers

 

3. African-American's role in WWII-500,000 blacks in eur

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Tuesday, March 27

US Homefront:

1. Selective Training and Service Act

-first peacetime draft in USA history

-used until 1943 to fill military needs

-after 1973, USA military depended on volunteers

2. Women's role in WWII

-Rosie the Riveter represented women workers in WWII

-

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Tuesday March 27

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 peacetime draft

used till 1973

after 73 military depended on volunteers 

2. Women's role in WWII

Rosie the Riveter

 Women in the work force

Factories

Nurses

couldnt win without them

Farmers and a lot of others

women's divi

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Tuesday March 27

US Home-front: 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 -First peacetime draft in U.S. histroy

-Used until 1973 to fill military needs

-After 1973, U.S. military depended on volunteers to fill needs.

2. Women's role in WWII

 -Rosie the Riveter represented w

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Tuesday, March 27

blog discussion day!

no assigned blog this week!

 

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act

  • first peacetime draft(forcing people to join the military) in US history
  • used to fill military needs until 1973
  • after 1973, US military depended on volun
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Tuesday 3-27-12

No assigned blog for the week. woot woot.

Blog Discussion. :

Over the Second part of the test.

US Homefront:

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act
 - First peacetime draft in US history.
 - used until 1973 to fill military needs.
 - after 1973, Us milit

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Tuesday, March 27th

Reviewed topics from yesterday

Watched some videos of Disney cartoons about how Americans should buy war bonds, and how horrible the Nazis/Germany/Hitler were or was.

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act: Selective Training and Service Act~1940: Firs

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tuesday march 27

continueing presentations-

mass production was very important in the world, it controlled everything that happened.

walf packs were U boats traveling in big groups. we would try to locate where u-boats were to avoid certain areas in the ocean where the

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Tuesday, march 27

We continued the assigned blog #6

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

 US homefront

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