1. How did Americans on the home front help win World War II?
Topic: The Home Front
Essential Question:
How did Americans on the home front help win World War II?

2. Draft
Over 10 million men

3.
Over 10 million men
Economy
War Production Board (WPB)
Converted peacetime industries to meet war needs

4. War Production Board (WPB)
Converted peacetime industries to meet war needs
Established rationing
Scrap drives

5. Established rationing
Scrap drives
Labor shortage
Women
Worked in manufacturing plants

6. Women
Worked in manufacturing plants
Represented by “Rosie the Riveter”

7. Women
Worked in manufacturing plants
Represented by “Rosie the Riveter”
Allowed to join the military for the first time
Non-combat volunteers

8. Allowed to join the military for the first time
Non-combat volunteers
Minorities given more opportunities
African Americans moved to the North and the West for jobs

9. Minorities given more opportunities
African Americans move to the North and the West for jobs
Bracero Program
Temporary workers from Mexico

10. Temporary workers from Mexico War bonds
Bracero Program
Temporary workers from Mexico
War bonds
How the U.S. government paid for the war
Purchased by citizens
Earned interest over time
Purchased at 75% of face value
($18.75 for a $25 bond)
Matured in 10 years
85 million Americans purchased $185 billion in bonds

11. 10-2-2 Purchased by citizens Earned interest over time Discuss Draft
War Production Board
Women
Minorities
War Bonds
Write a sentence describing the importance of one of the following:
Scrap drives
Rosie the Riveter

12. Purchased by citizens
Earned interest over time
African Americans
Double V Campaign
Victory over fascism and victory over discrimination

13. Double V Campaign
Victory over fascism and victory over discrimination
92nd Infantry (Buffalo Soldiers)

14. Congressional Gold Medal, 2007
Victory over fascism and victory over discrimination
92nd Infantry (Buffalo Soldiers)
Tuskegee Airmen
Congressional Gold Medal, 2007

15. 10-2-2 92nd Infantry (Buffalo Soldiers) Tuskegee Airmen
“Negroes are doing their bit here, their supreme bit—not for glory, not for honor, but for I think the generation that will come. If the blood that flows here on Italy’s mountain will wash from some folks’ minds the stigma that has been bred there for years, then, I think that the men who have gone so bravely here will not have given their lives in vain. I think I shall see it thru, but I’m proud to be one of these few men who are fighters. The American papers call us ‘Tan Yanks’ and other fancy names, but we find right here the best of all—the Italians call us ‘Americans’—just plain ‘Americans.’ That’s all we want to be—and one day, I hope we will, be just plain Americans.”
Letter from Joe Willie Johnson of 92nd Infantry to his father-in-law, February 5, 1945, Italy (My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II, p. 95)

16. A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
“Negroes are doing their bit here, their supreme bit—not for glory, not for honor, but for I think the generation that will come. If the blood that flows here on Italy’s mountain will wash from some folks’ minds the stigma that has been bred there for years, then, I think that the men who have gone so bravely here will not have given their lives in vain. I think I shall see it thru, but I’m proud to be one of these few men who are fighters. The American papers call us ‘Tan Yanks’ and other fancy names, but we find right here the best of all—the Italians call us ‘Americans’—just plain ‘Americans.’ That’s all we want to be—and one day, I hope we will, be just plain Americans.”
Letter from Joe Willie Johnson of 92nd Infantry to his father-in-law, February 5, 1945, Italy (My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II, p. 95)
What does Joe Willie Johnson think can make it so the men of the 92nd Infantry have not died in vain?
A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
B. If the Italians call them Americans instead of other names.
C. If they make it through the war alive and defeat the Nazis.
D. If their efforts change people’s opinions about African Americans.

17. A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
“Negroes are doing their bit here, their supreme bit—not for glory, not for honor, but for I think the generation that will come. If the blood that flows here on Italy’s mountain will wash from some folks’ minds the stigma that has been bred there for years, then, I think that the men who have gone so bravely here will not have given their lives in vain. I think I shall see it thru, but I’m proud to be one of these few men who are fighters. The American papers call us ‘Tan Yanks’ and other fancy names, but we find right here the best of all—the Italians call us ‘Americans’—just plain ‘Americans.’ That’s all we want to be—and one day, I hope we will, be just plain Americans.”
Letter from Joe Willie Johnson of 92nd Infantry to his father-in-law, February 5, 1945, Italy (My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II, p. 95)
What does Joe Willie Johnson think can make it so the men of the 92nd Infantry have not died in vain?
A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
B. If the Italians call them Americans instead of other names.
C. If they make it through the war alive and defeat the Nazis.
D. If their efforts change people’s opinions about African Americans.

18. A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
“Negroes are doing their bit here, their supreme bit—not for glory, not for honor, but for I think the generation that will come. If the blood that flows here on Italy’s mountain will wash from some folks’ minds the stigma that has been bred there for years, then, I think that the men who have gone so bravely here will not have given their lives in vain. I think I shall see it thru, but I’m proud to be one of these few men who are fighters. The American papers call us ‘Tan Yanks’ and other fancy names, but we find right here the best of all—the Italians call us ‘Americans’—just plain ‘Americans.’ That’s all we want to be—and one day, I hope we will, be just plain Americans.”
Letter from Joe Willie Johnson of 92nd Infantry to his father-in-law, February 5, 1945, Italy (My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II, p. 95)
What does Joe Willie Johnson think can make it so the men of the 92nd Infantry have not died in vain?
A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
B. If the Italians call them Americans instead of other names.
C. If they make it through the war alive and defeat the Nazis.
D. If their efforts change people’s opinions about African Americans.

19. A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
“Negroes are doing their bit here, their supreme bit—not for glory, not for honor, but for I think the generation that will come. If the blood that flows here on Italy’s mountain will wash from some folks’ minds the stigma that has been bred there for years, then, I think that the men who have gone so bravely here will not have given their lives in vain. I think I shall see it thru, but I’m proud to be one of these few men who are fighters. The American papers call us ‘Tan Yanks’ and other fancy names, but we find right here the best of all—the Italians call us ‘Americans’—just plain ‘Americans.’ That’s all we want to be—and one day, I hope we will, be just plain Americans.”
Letter from Joe Willie Johnson of 92nd Infantry to his father-in-law, February 5, 1945, Italy (My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II, p. 95)
What does Joe Willie Johnson think can make it so the men of the 92nd Infantry have not died in vain?
A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
B. If the Italians call them Americans instead of other names.
C. If they make it through the war alive and defeat the Nazis.
D. If their efforts change people’s opinions about African Americans.

20. A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
“Negroes are doing their bit here, their supreme bit—not for glory, not for honor, but for I think the generation that will come. If the blood that flows here on Italy’s mountain will wash from some folks’ minds the stigma that has been bred there for years, then, I think that the men who have gone so bravely here will not have given their lives in vain. I think I shall see it thru, but I’m proud to be one of these few men who are fighters. The American papers call us ‘Tan Yanks’ and other fancy names, but we find right here the best of all—the Italians call us ‘Americans’—just plain ‘Americans.’ That’s all we want to be—and one day, I hope we will, be just plain Americans.”
Letter from Joe Willie Johnson of 92nd Infantry to his father-in-law, February 5, 1945, Italy (My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II, p. 95)
What does Joe Willie Johnson think can make it so the men of the 92nd Infantry have not died in vain?
A. If these few men can proudly stand together as warriors.
B. If the Italians call them Americans instead of other names.
C. If they make it through the war alive and defeat the Nazis.
D. If their efforts change people’s opinions about African Americans.
Why do you think it is important to Johnson that the Italians call the men of the 92nd Infantry “just plain ‘Americans’”?