1. The War at Home
Read and Notes (pgs. 860 – 867)

2. World War II (In a Nutshell)
Mobilization at Home
WPB-beginning of ‘military industrial complex’
OPA - price controls, rationing
Income Tax, War Bonds

3. Rationed Tires (WWII)

4. Sugar Rationing Line (WWII)

5. Rosie the Riveter

6. Women Workers (WWII)

7. Social Impact Women at Work (Rosie the Riveter) Migration/Urbanization
African-Americans embrace “Double V”
Mexicans - opportunity, but …
Zoot-Suit Riots
Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. U.S.

16. Internment > “How to Tell Chinese from a Jap,” from an Army manual
How to Tell a Chinese from a “Jap.” Three panels from the Pocket Guide to China, a U.S. Army pamphlet distributed to soldiers and illustrated by cartoonist Milton Caniff (best known for the comic strips Terry and the Pirates and, after the war, Steve Canyon), show how outrageous racial stereotypes were used to distinguish between Asian friend and foe in official wartime publications.
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21. Scenario
Imagine this evening while sitting at home two police officers come to your door. They tell you that you have two hours to pack all of your belongings and you are going to a special camp?
What questions would you have?
How would you react?

22. Japanese Interment Executive Order 9066
Japanese Americans sent to “Reception Centers”
Lost Jobs, Businesses, Homes and Possessions

23. Wanto Grocery, owned by an Asian American

24. Dorothea Lange, “One Nation Indivisible
Dorothea Lange, “One Nation Indivisible.” Pledge of Allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School a few weeks prior to evacuation. (San Francisco, 1942)

26. G.S. Hante, a barber in Kent, Washington, displays his sentiments about internment. (March 1944)

27. Reading evacuation orders on a bulletin board in Los Angeles
Reading evacuation orders on a bulletin board in Los Angeles. These families will have as little as one week to report to the relocation center. (1942) Library of Congress.

28. Japanese Americans register for internment at the Santa Anita reception center in Los Angeles. (1942) Library of Congress

29. Japanese Americans waiting to board the train that will take them to the internment camp in Owens Valley. (April 1942)

30. Evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old train station in Los Angeles, CA. The train will take them to Owens Valley. (April 1942) Library of Congress

33. Internment Camp

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