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
we were saving private ryan
U.S. Homefront: What people do at home to help with the war.
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 officially a neutral co
Today, we had more notes on WWII...and we also had a tornado drill...
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);
Today, in class, we got on the computers and talked about what we went over last week.
1. 1940 Selective Training and Service Act:
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
