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The War on the Home Front Events and Ideas #4 Unit 5 Essential Question Contains these Videos: • Episode #35 – World War II – Part 2 • Complete the worksheet • Wartime Rationing • Answer questions Crash Course Video: World War II – Part 2 Episode #36: • Complete the worksheet that goes with the following video: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hof nGQwPgqs Japanese Internment • Feb. 19th, 1942 – two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, FDR authorized the military to ban anyone from the Pacific Coast. • All people of Japanese ancestry were taken from California, Washington and most of Oregon. Japanese Internment Japanese Internment • 110,000 Japanese were placed in camps • 62% were American citizens Allowed to go Home • January 1945 the exclusion order was rescinded. • Japanese began to return home. • The freed internees were given $25 and a train ticket to their former places of residence. • Most lost everything they owned while they were in the camps. • In 1988 Congress passes legislation apologizing for the internment, and paid reparations of $1.6 million Resident/Enemy Aliens • At the start of WWII 11,507 German “enemy aliens” were detained and interned in the U.S. • All were either former civilians or citizens of Germany. German interment camp at Fort Meade Resident Enemy Aliens • There were too many German-American’s to inter them all, instead many were evicted from coastal areas. • 36% of the total internments during WWII were Germans. Resident/Enemy Aliens • One month after Pearl Harbor was bombed, 600,000 Italians were required to register and carry an Two enemy alien registration cards carried “enemy alien registration card” at by an Italian couple who all times. • By June 1942, 1,521 Italians were had lived in the US 30 years arrested by the FBI. Many of them served time in internment camps. • Neither the German nor Italian Americans who were interred received apology or reparations. WWII Rationing – Part of Daily Life Wartime Rationing • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W2jk gs-ugs Wartime Rationing • Answer the following questions while watching the video (just number them – don’t write the questions): • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W2jkgs-ugs 1. What things were rationed during the war? 2. How many gallons of gas could you get a week? 3. How were women thought of in the 1940’s compared to today? Rubber Rationing (write down stats) Gas Rationing • 1942 — Gas rationing was used not to save fuel but to save tires and the rubber they were made of. • A nationwide speed limit of 35 miles per hour was also enforced to save wear on tires. Sharing Rides To Save Tires Scrap Metal Drives Nylon is Rationed • Drawing in the seamline on “Makeup” stockings with a device made from a screw driver handle, bicycle leg clip, and an eyebrow pencil, 1942. Scrap Paper • Paper was needed for packing weapons and equipment before they were shipped overseas Sugar Rationing • Sugar was the first food to be rationed, in the spring of 1942. • The war with Japan cut off U.S. imports from the Philippines, and cargo ships from Hawaii were diverted to military purposes. • The nation’s supply of sugar was quickly reduced by more than a third. Canned Goods And Ration Points Salvaging Waste Fats Meat Shoes Even Typewriters Rosie the Riveter • Not enough men to work in the factories. • Employers had to recruit women and minorities. • 6 million women worked in shipyards, aircraft factories, and other manufacturing plants. Rosie the Riveter • Women were paid 60% of men’s wages for doing the same job. • Most of the women lost their jobs when the war was over. Essential Question