WORLD WAR II ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART? AMERICAN HOMEFRONT WORLD WAR II ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART?

Core 100 Terms War on the Home Front (women, rationing, G.I. Bill) Japanese Internment Koremastu v. US

SELLING THE WAR WHY ARE WE FIGHTING? ROOSEVELT PROVIDES FOUR FREEDOMS FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION FREEDOM OF WORSHIP FREEDOM FROM WANT FREEDOM FROM FEAR FOR ALL PEOPLES

WWII Locally Snows Cut – 1942 Fort Fisher – German POW Camp – Ship Building in Wilmington

FOUR FREEDOMS

PREPAREDNESS OF COUNTRY SELECTIVE SERVICE ENACTED ILL PREPARED FOR TRAINING OR WA - Isolation left our Military Weak – 1 combat ready Battalion – Jap 100 Germany 200 GI-GOVERNMENT ISSUED TRUCKS LABELED TANKS. 5 Million men Volunteered Draft – provided 10 million more men ARMED SERVICES STILL SEGREGATED

GOVERNMENT CONTROL AGENCIES CREATED TO CONTROL ALL ASPECTS OF ECONOMY AND WAR EFFORT. OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION WAR PRODUCTION BOARD NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION

WAR PRODUCTION BOARD CONTROLLED NATION’S ECONOMY CONVERTED PEACETIME INDUSTRIES TO WAR INDUSTRIES AUTO MAKERS BECOME TANK MAKERS, LIBERTY SHIPS – Wilm NC? INCREASED PRODUCTION U.S. ECONOMY MAKES DRASTIC CHANGE FOR THE BETTER-OUT OF DEPRESSION. WHAT DOES THIS IMAGE SUGGEST?

WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? PLANT VICTORY GARDENS

WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? BUY WAR BONDS TO HELP FINANCE THE WAR

WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? JOIN THE USO UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATION ENTERTAIN AND PROVIDE FOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES

WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? CONSERVE AND FOLLOW RATIONING LAWS RATIONING-WAY OF DISTRIBUTING GOODS FAIRLY

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WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? SCRAP DRIVES FOR METAL, RUBBER, STEEL, ETC.

WOMEN AT WAR PLAYED MANY ROLES ROSIE THE RIVETER-SYMBOL OF WOMEN AT WORK IN FACTORIES WACS- WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS

AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLES STILL IN SEGREGATED UNITS When stationed in the South when off base had to follow Jim Crow Laws GREAT MIGRATION CONTINUES “DOUBLE V” CAMPAIGN-VICTORY OVER RACISM ABROAD AND AT HOME TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

African Americans At Home Civil rights leader James Farmer founded an interracial mvmt called? Congress of Racial Equality CORE would confront urban segregation in the North. Racial tensions increased in 1943 violence swept the nation – the worst in Detroit 9 whites dead 25 blacks.

Mexican Americans Served their country well Experienced discrimination. In 1943 LA exploded in an anti Mexican American riot “The Zoot Suit riots” Sailors beat Zoot suiters senseless. Zoot suits were long suit style worn with pleaded pants & broad brimmed hats. Mexican - youth rebelled against tradition. The cities response was to ban the Zoot Suit.

SUSPENSION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE-AMERICANS 1945- KOREMATSU V. UNITED STATES COULD DETAIN GROUP DUE TO “MILITARY URGENCY” National Security JAPANESE-AMERICANS FOUGHT WELL IN OUR ARMY AGAINST GERMANY WHAT CASE DOES THIS REMIND US OF FROM WORLD WAR I?

Japanese Internment Cont The Japanese American Citizenship League ( JACL) pushed the Gov to compensate those families sent to the camps. Congress reimbursed families in 1954 - $ 1000 1965 1989 each family received 20,000 dollars.

PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA OFFICES AND OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION USED: POSTERS NEWSREELS PAMPHLETS TO INFLUENCE HOME AND ABROAD