Transcript USA Homefront PPOINT #9

1941 War Powers Act
• Gave president sweeping powers to conduct the war
• Censorship allowed, though media generally censored themselves
Marshall and Mobilization
• Army underfunded
and underdeveloped
in late 1930s
• Marshall became
Army Chief of Staff
Office of War
Information
“The Voice of America”
• 1942
• Coordinated release of war
news
• Promoted patriotism
• Recruit women into
factory work
• Propaganda program
Guardsmen carry Sewell Avery,
president of Montgomery Ward, from
his office for failing to comply with
NWLR rulings
Liberty Ships
• Usually cargo ships
• Many sections
prefabricated
• By 1943, three
entered service daily
The War’s Economic Impact
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GDP more than doubled
Wages and salaries nearly tripled
Federal civilian employment more than tripled
Female employment up by a third
Labor union membership grew by over 50 percent
National debt ballooned by over 600 percent
South saw great prosperity
West became economic powerhouse
African American population shifts
The Women’s Army Corps
• Marshall noted
British success in using
women for noncombat
duties
• Congress created
Women’s Auxiliary
Army Corps in 1942
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
(AAGPBL)
Women began
to expand into
all different
aspects of life,
including
baseball!
This propaganda poster displays
typical American-held
stereotypes of the Japanese
A map of relocation centers in the
western U.S.
Despite this Oakland, California,
grocer’s sign, he was interned
and his business sold
• Forced to sell homes, businesses, property…Lost an estimated $2 billion
• Poor conditions: Barbed-wire enclosures, Barracks with cots and no
plumbing, Meager food budget, Low temperatures
• Manzanar
Life in the Camps
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
• Sponsored by a former
internee
• Paid $20,000 to each
surviving internee
• Government apologized
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen
The Bracero Program
• Established due to wartime labor shortage
• Experienced Mexican laborers brought in for CA farm work; expanded
nationwide
• Reported human rights abuses
• Lawsuits filed to collect savings withheld from braceros’ pay
Moving Ahead
►America emerges as the worlds dominant
economic and military power
►BUT new problems and social changes
are on the horizon