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US Homefront:
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 country, FDR knew that we would eventually get into the
Today, we continued discussion on the WWII powerpoint (part 2) and then we watched some Disney cartoons on WWII propaganda...
Test Questions:
US Homefront:--what people are doing at home to help with the war
1. Selective Training and Service Act--1940
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
1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940. homefront.
Even though we were not in the war yet, Roosevelt knew we should be ready i
Today we talked about WWII part 2 powerpoint.. then we watched some bugs bunny cartoons related to WWII.
Test Questions:
US Homefront:--what people are doing at home to help with the war
1. Selective Training and Service Ac
-1940; Roosevelt and Congre
Today we started going right into the powerpoint.
Entertainment
Hollywood in WWII
-the movies swayed toward making the US army look strong
-was sometimes racist to japanise
-was propoganda in some cases
-troop had something to entertain the was a comidian
after we finish ww2 part 2 powerpoint one we watched looney toones cartoons
KEEP!!
bruns gave out our next blog assignment which isnt due for the next two weeks. im dueing i have kennedy for my president that i have to blog about.
Then there is the co
Today we went over the powerpoint. We talked about Hollywood in WWII.
Wake Island:
-movie about the battle at Wake Island
OPA and Rationing:
-food rationing
-gasoline rationing-5 gallons a week
-people who worked were allowed more gas while people who didn
There were a lot of movies during WWll about WWll.
One of the most famous WWll movies was Casablanca.
Bob Hope would go and entertain the troops.
Bob died in 2003 and it was a very sad day.
John Wayne was in a lot of WWll movies and western movies.
Kilroy
selsctive training and service act 1940
first peace time draft in usa history
used until 1973 to fill military needs
after 1973 us military depended on volunteers to fill needs
gerorge c marshall cheif of tstaff of the is military druin
US Homefront:
hen
Today we continued WWII discussion.
US Homefront: What U.S was doing back home to help win the war.
1. Selective Training and Service Act- first peacetime draft in U.S history. used until 1973 to fill military needs, after 1973 military depended on v
hollywood in WWll:
tried to make the enemy look terrible
try to get public opinion to support the war
a lot of movies made during ww2 about ww2
bob hope would go over and entertain the troops so that they had something to look forward to
played the role o
US Homefront:
a homefront is what we are doing back home to help the war. Making food supplies.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
first peactime draft in US HIstory.Used until 1973 to fill military needs. After 1973, US military depended on volunt
Hollywood
It played the role of entertaining the troops, being propaganda.
OPA and Rationing
The OFfice of Price Admin was established in 1941 to administer price controls.
8000 rationing boards were creating with 2----- volunteers to assist the 60000
