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WWII, Boeing,
Executive Order 9066,
50’s Headlines, 1962 World’s
Fair
1941-1962
WWII
• In the late 1930’s the
American economy was
improving and the worst of the
Great Depression was over,
but there was trouble in other
parts of the world.
• Adolf Hitler, dictator of
Germany, believed that the
Germans were a superior race.
• Hitler set out to conquer
Europe and to cleanse it of
what he called inferior
peoples—especially Jewish
people.
America Enters WWII
Surprise Attack on Pearl
Harbor
• Sunday morning,
December 7, 1941, was
a beautiful one at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii.
• Many Navy ships were
docked.
• Suddenly, wave after
wave of Japanese fighter
planes dropped bombs on
US ships.
William Boeing
• Boeing had been fascinated
with flight since January
1910, when he attended the
first U.S. air races in Los
Angeles.
• In Seattle, William Boeing
and Conrad Westervelt
built their first plane, the
“B&W” in 1916.
• They formed the Pacific
Aero-Products Co. in 1916,
which later become The
Boeing Company.
Boeing
The Boeing Company used
aluminum to make airplanes.
• Just in case enemy planes
flew over the area,
Boeing’s plant was
disguised to look like a
residential neighborhood.
• Using paint and wire,
buildings were made to look
like homes with trees in the
yards.
Boeing
• At the peak of production, the
Seattle plant produced sixteen B17s every day.
• The B-17 was the main weapon in
the air war against Germany.
• At its Renton plant, Boeing began
work on the larger B-29.
• The B-29 “superfortress” was the
most advanced bomber of its
time.
• It was used in the air war against
Japan.
• By mid-1945, six new B-29s rolled
out of the plant every day.
Boeing
• Boeing employed 50,000 people
by the end of the war.
• Nearly half of them were women.
• By the end of the war, Boeing had
built nearly seven thousand B-17s
and more than one thousand B29s.
• Boeing sales were ten times the
income of all other Seattle
industries combined.
Roosevelt asks Congress to Declare
War on Japan
• December 8, 1941
• US joins the Allied
Forces (France, Britain,
USSR)
• Fighting against Axis
Powers (Italy, Germany,
Japan)
Big 3 – Stalin, Roosevelt,
Churchill
Relocation of Japanese Americans
• The surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor produced an irrational,
almost hysterical, fear of
Japanese invasion.
• Some people thought that
Japanese Americans might give
aid to Japan or secretly try to
destroy American companies.
• Without any evidence to support
their decision, government
leaders decided to classify
anyone of Japanese ancestry as a
security risk.
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066
• On March 2, 1942, all
persons of Japanese
descent living on the
West Coast were given
relocation orders.
• Many lost their
property or were forced
to sell at low prices.
• They were removed
from coastal areas,
including Washington.
Executive Order 9066
• Bainbridge Island's
Japanese American
residents become the
first to be interned
under Executive Order
9066 on March 30,
1942.
Bainbridge Island High School pupils
cut classes to bid farewell to their
Japanese American classmates,
March 1942
Questions to Consider
– Why was Bainbridge Island the first place to inter
Japanese-Americans?
– To where were the Japanese-Americans moved
after Bainbridge Island?
– What happened to their homes and belongings?
– What was camp like?
Possible Scrapbook Entry
Pretend that you have received a letter from a
Japanese-American friend of yours who was
taken to a camp. What would that letter have
said?
Little Rock 9
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Nine African-American students
involved in the desegregation of Little
Rock Central High School.
September, 1957 sparked a
nationwide crisis
Arkansas governor Orval Faubus
defied a federal court order
Called out the Arkansas National
Guard to prevent the Nine from
entering school
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
federalized the National Guard and
sent units of the U.S. Army’s 101st
Airborne Division to escort the Nine
into the school on September 25,
1957.
The military presence remained for
the duration of the school year.
Headlines of the 1950s - Sputnik
• History changed on
October 4, 1957, when
the Soviet Union
successfully launched
Sputnik I.
• It marked the start of
the space age and the
U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.
Possible Scrapbook Entry
-Cut and paste several headlines from the 1950s
in your scrapbook.
-Include your reaction to the events.
Century 21- Seattle’s Second
World’s Fair -1962
• Must See!
• Monorail
• Space Needle
Century 21 had 5 Themed Areas
• Area #1- The World of
Science: Science exhibits
surrounded the “space
gothic” arches that towered
over the southern section of
the fairgrounds.
• The most popular attraction
here was Boeing’s
Spacearium, which took up
to 750 visitors on an
imaginary 10-minute
excursion to the outer
galaxies.
Century 21 – 4 more Themed Areas
• The World of Tomorrow
• The World of
Commerce and Industry
• The World of Art
• The World of
Entertainment
Question to Consider
Why did Seattle have another World’s Fair?
Possible Scrapbook Entry
Compare your visit to the 1962 World’s Fair
with the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
when you were 18.
Final Scrapbook Entry
Complete your scrapbook with an obituary of
your life.
You’re done! What a life! What
a project!