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The Great Society was just like President Roosevelts New Deal. Under the Great Society one of the programs created was the for the environment. The NEPA wanted to helped the wildlife and preserve national resources but yet not harm the human life. In
Today Ian started his presentation and he had VJ Day which was victory over Japan. The US’s reasons for bombing Japan was because the Postdam Ultimatum was ignored, which was us telling them that we had a new weapon that was huge and that they should
-For this weeks weekly blog I have to blog about The Great Society-Environment (pg.690).
- For the cold war project I got NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence
- Mr. Bruns doesn’t think we are going to have another test
Today we continued with the mop up deal. We talked about how women tested airplanes and stuff before they were used in battle. African americans couldnt actually fight with whites yet. they were segregated but they still fought. Same with asian ameri
Today Zach H and Tara B were supposed to finish up but ONCE AGAIN they did not have their project and Tara B is not here. Courtney and Kayley were supposed to go today but go figure they are not done… WOW… SO that means that the one and only Mr. Brun
Bruns Power Point today means lots and lots of learning!!!...
Home Front
Hollywood in WW2
Wake Island
Guadal Canal Diary
Purple Heart
Cary Grant in destination Tokyo
Casablanca-Humphrey Bogart
Bob Hope was a funny comedian
USO-entertain soldiers overseas
Bing
Mr. Bruns power point
"Tokyo Rose"
Forced tp broadcast propaganda to alloed troops for japan
In these radio program
African Americans In WW2
Couldn't be with the whites
Did the same thing but not with each other
ASian Americans
We didn't trust them
Henry Kais
WAVES; kinda like the womens navy
WASP; Women's Army service piolots
" tokyo Rose" was foced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan
in these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home
she was a US citizen in Japan
co
There were not any interracial infantry until nam. Rationing made it so you could not get very much of anything. There were different stickers for how much gas you could get. The black market came about with
home front
waves-women army...womens version of navy (tested stuff and what not)
wasp- womens version of air force (saame... tested planes)
"tokyo rose" iva toguri.. she made the us soldiers homesick. forced to broadcast stories from home and music
afric
bob hope---USO tour
he died in 2004
was a comedian
sing dance comedy
bob hope christmas special=---bruns remembers these.ha
entertain soldiers over seas
kilroy was here
home front--
rationing
mandatory
war prod. board
TOGETHER WE WIN
convoy--fighting against u b
ART SHOW.
Today in class we did the last presentation and then Mr. Bruns started with his big PowerPoint. I had a ton more stuff for today but Word crashed and deleted my stuff.
Homefront
A lot of people moved to the west coast. People migrated for jobs and avai
Taylor finished up her home front presentation and now mr bruns is presenting his mop up presentation.
Selective training act and service act 1940. firtst peacetime draft in us history. Used until 1973 to fill military needs. After 1973, US military d
Population
increase due to migration
people migrated for housing available, african americans leave cotton fields, military wives following husbands
bases established or inlarged
Rationing
system started at beginning of war
tires first, bc of the reduction
taxes
raised to pay for war
economy,
controls on prices and wages.
labor;
employment rate went down, women got jobs.
farmers were affected. people moved into city to work in factories.
students got out o
taxes
raised to pay for war
economy,
controls on prices and wages.
labor;
employment rate went down, women got jobs.
farmers were affected. people moved into city to work in factories.
students got out o
