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

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

3. 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

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

5. FOUR FREEDOMS

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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?

9. WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME?
PLANT VICTORY GARDENS

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

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

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

13. What is this Picture showing?

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

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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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?

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

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