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Wartime America

Selective Training and Service Act Drafted For Service Selective Training and Service Act Army expands to 8 million by wars end https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=aDDvpTMABOQ&t=446s Bases in Florida Jacksonville Eglin

Assignment On a sheet of paper draw the following graph. Use your textbook to fill it out. Group Role in military Role in economy African Americans Mexicans Native Americans Women

Group Role in military Role in economy African Americans Segregated units; Tuskegee Airmen Executive order 8802 banning discrimination in defense or gov. Mexicans Allowed to serve fully Bracero Program Native Americans Code Talkers Women Barred from combat; administrative and clerical Factories and gov., # employed jumps from 13 to 19 million (doesn’t last long) Effects of this?

Injustice Fighting the Nazis abroad but what at home? Double V Campaign African Americans had their own units Tuskegee Airmen Executive Order 8802 integrates government offices Native American code talkers Relayed critical info. In own language Bracero Program Mexicans harvesting crops in the Southwest Sunbelt Women barred from combat; served in other capacities

Violence Wartime creates millions of new jobs Many move to the Sunbelt Southern California and Deep South Knowing makes it harder to hate As AA and Mexicans move North and West they faced racism and intolerance Zoot suit riots in LA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LqNMA3Vpdo

Economy “The great arsenal of democracy” Cost-plus contracts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00bO _bvfLqM Cost-plus contracts Cost to make a product and % of profit Many factories begin making war supplies Tanks made in car factories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e 8JM0ohyJuo