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Friday April 8

General in charge of the Manhattan Project was all pissy cause he was in charge of scientists, names General Groves, and he realized the importance when the first bomb was detonated.  Trinity was the first atomic device explosion, and it was detonate
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Qustions on WW11.

1. Selective Training and Service Act

 

2. Women's role in WWII- they basiccly held up the back bone of the us they took over the jobs of men and helped creat the needed supply wich led to the victory of the war.

 

3. African-American's role in WWII

 

4. A

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Friday April 8

Enola Gay 

  • Paul Tibits piolet

Hiroshima Bombing/ Nagasaki Bombing

  • Aiming for bridge
  • Little Boy and Fat Man
  • Carried by B-29

VJ Day

  • August 14, 1945
  • Japan surenders ending WWII

Yalta Conference

  • Germany would be broken into Four occupation Zones (US,GB,France,USSR
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Friday, April 8

Test next week. Reviewed a little, then more notes.

 

US Homefront:

People back home making war goods, food, medical supplies.

1. Selective Training and Service Act

-Instituted the U.S. draft. First peacetime draft in U.S. history, was used until 1973 to

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Friday April 8th

miral chester nimitz- navy admiral against japan19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,■island hopping- policy where the US hops over less important islands and hit the important islan
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friday april 8

22. Manhattan Project-atomic bomb. military in-charge. general leslie groves. j robert oppenheimer-a communist was in charge of this project. alamogordo, new mexico is where we first tested the first bomb. enola gay-there was not a plane that was abl
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Friday April 8th

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", repres

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Daily Blog Post: Friday, April 8, 2011

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- working in factories, giving our troops stuff, Ro

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Friday, April 8

US Homefront:
helped win the war by making things for our troops so they had supplies to use.

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

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April 8th

1. Selective Training and Service Act

The Draft. Sign up for selective service at 18.

2. Women's role in WWII

Women paid a huge role---manufacturing, factories, stuff. Rosie the Rivetor. Nursing on the front lines was very needed. Wrote death notices. P

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April 8,2011

1. Selective Training and Service Act
home front, passed in 1940, peacetime draft, draft just in case, used until 1973, from there volunteers filled in

2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter represented women workers during the war, worked in factori

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thursday april 7

US Homefront:People back home making war goods, food, medical supplies.1. Selective Training and Service Act-Instituted the U.S. draft. First peacetime draft in U.S. history, was used until 1973 to fill military needs. After that, the military depend
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US Homefront:



1. Selective Training and Service Act

■what is a home front?
◦what your doing in your home
■Selective servace and training act 1940
■this is basically a draft
■first peace time draft in us history used intill 1973
■after 73 military relied on
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Friday April 8th

1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940

it is the draft

first peace time draft in history- after 73' the millitary depended on volenteers

2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter-represented women workers in WWII
nursing- to help with injuries
se

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4/8/2011

Today, in class, we got on the computers and talked about what we went over last week.

 

1. 1940 Selective Training and Service Act:
  • First peacetime draft in U.S. History
  • Passed by FDR who really wanted the U.S. to get into the war
  • Even though we were off
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April. 8. 2011

More notes. and i am in a terrible mood cause Mr.Bruns cause he played that STUPID friday song.

 

US Homefront:

■ It is what people are doing at home to help with the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act

■ First peacetime draft in the US
■After 1973,

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Friday, April 8

Today, we finished up the WWII Part 2 powerpoint 3...

 

Test Questions:

 

US Homefront:--what people are doing at home to help with the war

 

1. Selective Training and Service Act--1940; Roosevelt and Congress passed it in 1940; (drafting); First peacetime

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apr. 8, 2011

14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley

George C. Marshall- cheif of staff of the US Military during WWII. Only person above Marshall was the president.

Henry Kaiser- owner of a ship building company.

George Patton- one

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April 8, 2011

1. Selective Training and Service Act

1940. homefront.

Even though we were not in the war yet, Roosevelt knew we should be ready if the war would come upon us.It was the First peacetime draft in US History. it was made so just in case we went to war, w

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