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AMERICAN HOMEFRONT WORLD WAR II ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART? Core 100 Terms War on the Home Front (women, rationing, G.I. Bill) Japanese Internment Koremastu v. US SELLING THE WAR • WHY ARE WE FIGHTING? – ROOSEVELT PROVIDES FOUR FREEDOMS • • • • FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION FREEDOM OF WORSHIP FREEDOM FROM WANT FREEDOM FROM FEAR – FOR ALL PEOPLES WWII Locally • • • • Snows Cut – 1942 Fort Fisher – German POW Camp – Ship Building in Wilmington FOUR FREEDOMS PREPAREDNESS OF COUNTRY • SELECTIVE SERVICE ENACTED • ILL PREPARED FOR TRAINING OR WA - Isolation left our Military Weak – 1 combat ready Battalion – Jap 100 Germany 200 – GI-GOVERNMENT ISSUED – TRUCKS LABELED TANKS. • 5 Million men Volunteered • Draft – provided 10 million more men • ARMED SERVICES STILL SEGREGATED GOVERNMENT CONTROL • AGENCIES CREATED TO CONTROL ALL ASPECTS OF ECONOMY AND WAR EFFORT. • OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE • OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION • WAR PRODUCTION BOARD • NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD • OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION WAR PRODUCTION BOARD • CONTROLLED NATION’S ECONOMY • CONVERTED PEACETIME INDUSTRIES TO WAR INDUSTRIES – AUTO MAKERS BECOME TANK MAKERS, LIBERTY SHIPS – Wilm NC? • INCREASED PRODUCTION • U.S. ECONOMY MAKES DRASTIC CHANGE FOR THE BETTER-OUT OF DEPRESSION. WHAT DOES THIS IMAGE SUGGEST? WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? • PLANT VICTORY GARDENS WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? • BUY WAR BONDS TO HELP FINANCE THE WAR WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? • JOIN THE USO – UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATION • ENTERTAIN AND PROVIDE FOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? • CONSERVE AND FOLLOW RATIONING LAWS • RATIONING-WAY OF DISTRIBUTING GOODS FAIRLY What is this Picture showing? WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME? • SCRAP DRIVES FOR METAL, RUBBER, STEEL, ETC. WOMEN AT WAR • PLAYED MANY ROLES • ROSIE THE RIVETER-SYMBOL OF WOMEN AT WORK IN FACTORIES • WACS- WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLES • STILL IN SEGREGATED UNITS When stationed in the South when off base had to follow Jim Crow Laws • GREAT MIGRATION CONTINUES • “DOUBLE V” CAMPAIGN-VICTORY OVER RACISM ABROAD AND AT HOME • TUSKEGEE AIRMEN African Americans At Home • Civil rights leader James Farmer founded an interracial mvmt called? Congress of Racial Equality CORE would confront urban segregation in the North. • Racial tensions increased in 1943 violence swept the nation – the worst in Detroit 9 whites dead 25 blacks. Mexican Americans • Served their country well Experienced discrimination. In 1943 LA exploded in an anti Mexican American riot • “The Zoot Suit riots” Sailors beat Zoot suiters senseless. Zoot suits were long suit style worn with pleaded pants & broad brimmed hats. Mexican youth rebelled against tradition. The cities response was to ban the Zoot Suit. SUSPENSION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES • INTERNMENT OF JAPANESEAMERICANS • 1945- KOREMATSU V. UNITED STATES – COULD DETAIN GROUP DUE TO “MILITARY URGENCY” National Security • JAPANESE-AMERICANS FOUGHT WELL IN OUR ARMY AGAINST GERMANY WHAT CASE DOES THIS REMIND US OF FROM WORLD WAR I? Japanese Internment Cont • The Japanese American Citizenship League ( JACL) pushed the Gov to compensate those families sent to the camps. Congress reimbursed families in • 1954 - $ 1000 • 1965 • 1989 each family received 20,000 dollars. PROPAGANDA • PROPAGANDA OFFICES AND OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION USED: – POSTERS – NEWSREELS – PAMPHLETS • TO INFLUENCE HOME AND ABROAD