1. The Homefront World War II Created by Mr. Johnson

2. Objective 10.03 – Describe and analyze the effects of the war on American economic, social, political, and cultural life.

3. Key Terms War bonds Baby boomers Fair Deal G.I. Bill Korematsu v. United States, 1944 Levittown Northern Migration Middle class Rosie the Riveter Selective Service Act AFL-CIO Taft-Hartley Act WACS War Production Board Japanese American Internment Rationing

4. The Homefront “Home” – United States “Front” – Line of battle How is the war being waged in the U.S.? Total War – all sectors of society are mobilized for war

5. Restrictions

6. Selective Service Act, 1940 T h e D r a f t ! ! !

7. War Production Board Shift away from laissez faire Gov’t Regulation –Production of goods –Consumption of resources… Gasoline Heating oil Metals Rubber Plastics

8. Office of Price Administration Price controls Rent controls

9. Rationing

10. Rationing

11. Victory Gardens

12. War Bonds

13. Income Tax

14. Media Censorship

15. Propaganda & Stereotypes

16. Taft-Hartley Act Anti-union law Fear of communism… Cold War coming

17. A.F.L.-C.I.O. A.F. of L. (1886) Breakaway – C.I.O. (1938) Reunited into AFL-CIO (1955) Refrained from strikes during the war

18. Internment Camps

19. Korematsu v. U.S. Executive Order 9066 Wartime powers of government Civil rights

20. Black Soldiers Buffalo Soldiers Tuskegee Airmen

21. Opportunities

22. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943 1 st Amendment Citizens cannot be forced to pledge allegiance to the flag

23. War Industry

24. National War Labor Board Government arbitration… …no interruptions in production

25. Rosie the Riveter

26. W.A.C.S. Womens’ Army Corps

27. Navajo Code Talkers

28. Nisei Regiments

29. Great Migration

30. “Double V” Campaign

31. A. Philip Randolph March on Washington Movement

32. Executive Order 8802 “Fair Employment” No racial discrimination in defense industry

33. Mexican-American Soldiers Served in integrated units

34. Bracero Program Temporary Mexican agricultural laborers

35. G.I. Bill Passed in 1944 Federal aid to veterans Education Housing Unemployment “Servicemen’s Readjustment Act”

36. Fair Deal Harry Truman Extension of New Deal –National health insurance Republican Resistance

37. Levittown, PA William J. Levitt Suburbia

38. Levittown, PA Prefabricated Homes

39. “Little Boxes” Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.

40. “Little Boxes” And the people in the houses All went to the university Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same And there's doctors and lawyers And business executives And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. -Malvina Reynolds

41. Middle Class

43. Baby Boom Births in the United States

44. Boomer Generation