1. Chapter 26 – World War II Section Notes Video Maps Quick Facts Images
The War Begins
The Home Front
War in Europe and North Africa
War in the Pacific
Victory and Consequences
The Impact of the GI Bill
Maps
World War II in Europe,
Pearl Harbor, 1941
World War II in Europe,
War in the Pacific,
Quick Facts
Major Leaders of the War in Europe
Causes and Effects of World War II
Chapter 26 Visual Summary
Images
The Third Reich
Primary Source: Supporting the War
Struggles at Home
Code Talkers
Iwo Jima

2. The Home Front The Big Idea
American involvement in World War II helped the U.S. economy and changed the lives of many Americans.
Main Ideas
Businesses, soldiers, and citizens worked to prepare the United States for war.
The war brought new opportunities for many women and minorities.
Japanese Americans faced internment during the war.

3. Main Idea 1: Businesses, soldiers, and citizens worked to prepare for war.
Factories ran 24 hours a day.
Agricultural production increased.
Effort of mobilizing for war brought end to the Great Depression
Businesses

4. Main Idea 1: Businesses, soldiers, and citizens worked to prepare for war.
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was nation’s first peacetime draft.
Ages then changed to 18-35
More than 16 million Americans served during war.

5. Main Idea 1: Businesses, soldiers, and citizens worked to prepare for war.
War Production Board created by government to oversee conversion of factories to war production
Increased taxes
Sold war bonds (Get your money back in 10 years)
Government

6. Main Idea 1: Businesses, soldiers, and citizens worked to prepare for war.
Civilians
Collected scrap metal to be used in war factories
Learned to use less in order to supply overseas troops
Ration (gas, rubber, shoes, food)

7. Moblize for War

8. Main Idea 2: The war brought new opportunities for many women and minorities.
Women in Workforce
New opportunities when war broke out
Because so many men were sent to war, the government urged women to fill their places in the workplace.
Women worked in factories at jobs traditionally held only by men.

10. Main Idea 2: The war brought new opportunities for many women and minorities.
Women in Military
About 300,000 women served in the armed forces in non-combat positions.
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Women’s Airforce Service
Pilots flew test flights
Army and navy nurses served in combat areas.

11. Women and WWII

12. African Americans in World War II
Civilians
African Americans received lower pay and restricted jobs
African American labor leader A. Philip Randolph fought for fair treatment of African Americans in workplace.
Roosevelt issued an order prohibiting racial discrimination in the government and companies producing war goods

13. African Americans in WW II

14. African Americans in World War II
Military
About 1 million African Americans served in World War II, mostly in segregated units.
Navy denied the right to participate in combat.
Dorie Miller- cook manned a machine gun on West Virginia during Pearl Harbor.

15. Dorie Miller

16. African Americans in World War II
Military
The Tuskegee Airmen were African American pilots.
Led by Benjamin O. Davis, who later became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force
Flew thousands of successful combat missions in North Africa and Italy.

17. Tuskegee Airmen

18. Mexican Americans in World War II
About 300,000 served in the military
Many found wartime jobs on West Coast and in Midwest.
Government brought in farm workers from Mexico, called braceros.
To make up for shortage of farm workers
About 200,000 Mexicans worked in this program.

19. Mexican Americans in World War II
Mexican American youth culture grew.
Blended different music styles and clothing styles
Some wore zoot suits– fancy, loose-fitting outfits with oversized hats.
Many faced discrimination.
June 1943– in Los Angeles zoot-suit riots, sailors attacked Mexican Americans wearing zoot suits.

20. Main Idea 3: Japanese Americans faced internment during the war.
After Pearl Harbor, some Americans began to look at Japanese Americans with fear and suspicion.
Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066.
Allowed government to begin process of internment, or forced relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans
115,000 Japanese Americans evacuated from homes and held in isolated internment camps.
They lost their jobs, homes, and belongings
Half of those in camp were Children

21. Japanese internment camps

22. Main Idea 3: Japanese Americans faced internment during the war.
Government initially banned Japanese Americans from serving in military.
Policy reversed in 1943.
33,000 U.S.-born citizens of Japanese descent, or Nisei, served in World War II.
100th/442nd Regiment received more decorations then any other unit.

23. 442nd

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