1. Mobilizing for War

2. Analyze the propaganda poster to the left
Analyze the propaganda poster to the left. Make sure to answer the following questions:
Who is the intended audience?
What was the point of the poster (what did they want the audience to do)?
What stereotypes can you see? Are they good or bad?
Come up with a definition of propaganda you’d feel confident to share with the class
Daily Quiz – Jan 11/12

3. Converting the Economy

4. U.S. Output of Military Products
Why would the graph look like this?

5. Roosevelt believed that government and business had to work together.
War Production
The U.S. had to rapidly increase war production after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Roosevelt believed that government and business had to work together.

6. It convinced many companies to convert to war production.
Cost-Plus
The government agreed to pay a company whatever it cost to make a product plus a guaranteed percentage of the cost as profit.
Under this plan, the more a company produced and the faster they did it, the more money it would make.
It convinced many companies to convert to war production.

7. Automobile factories began producing trucks, jeeps, and tanks.
Tanks Replace Cars
The automobile industry was uniquely suited to mass produce military equipment.
Automobile factories began producing trucks, jeeps, and tanks.
They also produced artillery, rifles, mines, helmets, pontoon bridges, and a lot more.
Henry Ford created the assembly line that produced the B-24 bomber.

8. Henry Kaiser applied construction techniques to shipbuilding.
Liberty Ships
Henry Kaiser applied construction techniques to shipbuilding.
Parts were pre-fabricated and taken to the shipyard to build the ships.
Liberty basic cargo ships that were welded not riveted.
The first Liberty ship took 244 days to build, while subsequent ships only took 41 days.

9. Set priorities and production goals.
War Production Board
To prioritize the governments orders and reduce confusion, Roosevelt created the War Production Board.
Set priorities and production goals.
Controlled the distribution of raw materials and supplies.
Scrap Drives- Organized drives for Americans to collect extra metal to use in the war
About half the metal used in tanks were from these drives
Victory Gardens- The War Production Board encouraged Americans to grow their own food to help with rationing and supplies.

10. Building an Army

11. U.S. Armed Forces,

12. The Draft and Enlistment
September 1940, the Selective Service Act was passed – the first peacetime draft
In the month after Pearl Harbor, more than 60, 000 men enlisted (volunteered)

13. Who is the intended audience?
What was the point of the poster (what did they want the audience to do)?
What stereotypes can you see? Are they good or bad?

14. African-Americans in the Military
African-Americans were segregated into their own military units.
They trained separately, had separate barracks, separate mess halls, latrines, etc.
Tuskegee Airmen – All black Air Force unit
Never lost a bomber during the war
Rights of blacks in the war - 1:50-2:
Double-V – double victory – win the war over Hitler’s racism and racism at home

15. Who is the intended audience?
What was the point of the poster (what did they want the audience to do)?
What stereotypes can you see? Are they good or bad?

16. Women in the Armed Forces
Women first allowed into the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1941
1942 – the Army established the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) – women became part of the regular army – non- combat
Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) flew more than 12,000 deliveries of planes to the front
The Coast Guard, Navy, and Marines soon added women’s units.

17. Who is the intended audience?
What was the point of the poster (what did they want the audience to do)?
What stereotypes can you see? Are they good or bad?

18. What are your reactions listening to the song?
Kenji – The Rising Tied
Mike Shinoda (best known for his work with Linkin Park) wrote this song about his family and their experience in a Japanese internment camp
What are your reactions listening to the song?
Is this a biased source? Primary or secondary?
Do you think the song accurately describes most of the Japanese at the time? Why or why not?

19. First Video - http://www.archive.org/details/Japanese1943
Japanese Internment
First Video -
In pairs, read Documents B & C and fill out the organizer
Did your hypothesis change?
Were these documents or the newsreel more helpful?
After the class discussion, do the same with Documents D & E
Which document was the “best?”
What is your final hypothesis?
S.H.E.G.

20. Japanese 101
Executive Order 9066 – In February 1942, Roosevelt signs an order moving Japanese-Americans to internment camps throughout the West Coast
Korematsu v. United States – A Supreme Court case that upheld Executive Order It said that everyone has to make sacrifices during wartime