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WWII: Chapter 25
Great Short Answer Questions:
How did the U.S get the
economy prepared
for war?
How has technology
improved WWII weapons?
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3. WWII Begins: Mobilizing America
Main Idea:
The success of the U.S. in mobilizing for war was due largely to the cooperation of individual American citizens.
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4. & Churchill (Great Britain)
FDR (United States)
& Churchill (Great Britain)
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5. Step 1: Mobilize Industry
America will be the 1st nation to successfully fight a two-front war.
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7. Step 1: Mobilize Industry
(WPB) War Production Board = put in charge of distributing raw materials and organizing the war industry
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How did Henry Ford’s
assembly line
help in the getting
America ready for war?
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10. impact minorities and women? Great Short Answer Questions:
How did WWII
impact
minorities and
women?

11. Starts mass producing tanks and jeeps
Step 2: Produce Weapons
Auto Industry =
Starts mass producing tanks and jeeps
Ford makes B-24 Bombers  “Liberators”
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WWII
WWI
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WWII
WWI
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WWII
WWI
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WWII
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WWII
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Step 2: Produce Weapons
Liberty Ships with welded hull = did not break apart when torpedoed (hard to sink)
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20. What made the “Liberty Ship” Better than WWI ships?
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22. America Mobilizes for War
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23. In your opinion, how well Were US soldier trained
Before heading to WWII?
(textbook said?)
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24. 1940 = US starts drafting soldiers
Step 3: Build an Army
1940 = US starts drafting soldiers
Selective Service & Training Act=
the draft.
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25. Step 2: Building an Army Women Join!
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
- 1st time women could serve in the Army
WASPS = Women Pilots
- transported things
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Women could join
But still
NO COMBAT!
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29. Symbol of strong working Women in WWII
“Rosie the Riveter” =
Symbol of strong working
Women in WWII
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Tuskegee Airmen
Fighter pilots
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31. Tuskegee Airmen Step 3: Building an Army
All minorities will serve in segregated units:
Tuskegee Airmen
(African American Unit)
Fighting for “Double-V”
Lead by Benjamin O. Davis
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Navajo Code Talkers
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33. Navajo Code Talkers (Native American Unit) Step 3: Building an Army
Did serve along side white soldiers because they knew the code
Code = in Navajo, unbreakable code
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442nd Combat Unit
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35. - Will not be allowed to serve in the Pacific
Step 3: Building an Army
442nd Combat Unit
(Japanese GIs)
- Will not be allowed to serve in the Pacific
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36. Japanese Internment Camps
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 February 19, 1942 
After Pearl Harbor, FDR orders that all Japanese Americans be taken away from their homes and put into internment camps.
“Whereas, the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage …”
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Why did the U.S.
relocate
Japanese Americans
to internment camps
during WWII?
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"At Gila, there were 7,700 people crowded into space designed for 5,000. They were housed in messhalls, recreation halls, and even latrines. As many as 25 persons lived in a space intended for four."
"I remember the soldiers marching us to the Army tank and I looked at their rifles and I was just terrified because I could see this long knife at the end I thought I was imagining it as an adult much later I thought it couldn't have been bayonets because we were just little kids." 
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In 1943 all internees over the age of seventeen were given a loyalty test. They were asked two questions:
1. Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered? (Females were asked if they were willing to volunteer for the Army Nurse Corps or Women's Army Corp.)
2. Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, to any other foreign government, power or organization?
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42. Civil Liberties Act of 1988:
"a grave injustice was done" and mandated Congress to pay each victim of internment $20,000 in reparations.
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