1. Today’s warm-up!!
Create a timeline that explains how the US got involved in WWII
Be sure to include key laws that were passed
USE YOUR NOTES IF YOUR CANNOT REMEMBER

2. Life in America during the WWII
Wartime America
Life in America during the WWII

3. How did America prepare for war?
US began drafting men BEFORE Pearl Harbor
After Pearl Harbor enlistments increased
US began building new military bases (NAS Jax)
Cost-Plus economics create relationship between Govt and business
Most major industries convert to making war supplies

4. Minorities in the Military
African Americans were segregated but often commanded by whites
Tuskegee Airmen
Japanese initially barred from service
Women joined, but were barred from combat
Native Americans served in large numbers including the Navajo code talkers

5. Rationing Returns Gasoline, heating fuel, metals and rubber
Canned, frozen and processed foods, meat, sugar, coffee
Ration booklets limited what you could buy
Victory Gardens
Office of War Information = Propaganda

6. Even Disney gets into the business of promoting the war effort

7. Racism in America?
African Americans faced racism as they moved to urban centers for jobs
Mexicans were recruited to work in US factories and on farms
Mexican American teenagers liked “Zoot Suits”
Led to infamous “zoot suit riots” when 2,500 US soldiers and sailors attacked Mex-Am neighborhoods

9. What was Japanese Internment?
After Pearl Harbor Americans began to hate Japanese / J.A.mer. (racially motivated)
Japanese / J.Amer. forced to move into “camps”
Japanese Americans forced to sell their property and belongings
Poor conditions / not allowed to leave
Korematsu vs. U.S.

10. Tule Lake
Auschwitz

11. What was life in an internment camp like? Depends on who you ask.
US Government’s Official Video
Reality and Korematsu

12. One more cartoon- Popeye

13. What does this pic tell us about America during the war?

14. What does this pic tell us about America during the war?

15. What does this pic tell us about America during the war?

16. What does this pic tell us about America during the war?

17. What does this pic tell us about America during the war?

18. Today’s Activity #1 - Pick a partner or work on your own
#2 – Read section “Life on the Home Front (pg ) and A Nation on the Move (pg ) and write down 8 key facts for each section
#3 – Share out with your partner
#4 – Create an I AM poem as wither a woman helping the war effort OR a Japanese American in an internment camp