Transcript WWII Homefront APUSH

Women in the Armed Forces
• 275,000 women
volunteered for military
service.
• Women were used in all
areas except combat.
• Women began to develop a
want to work outside the
household and led to many
women joining the
workforce after the war
Join the Women’s Army Corps
Women’s Army Air Corps
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Female War Photographer
“What should we do - send
the boys returning from WAR
back to the kitchen?”
A Philip Randolph
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Executive Order 8802
Proposed march on Washington, but
executive order desegregated defense
industry.
"Salvation for a race, nation or
class must come from within.
Freedom is never granted; it is
won. Justice is never given; it is
exacted and the struggle must be
continuous for freedom is never a
final fact, but a continuing
evolving process to higher and
higher levels of human, social,
economic, political and religious
relationship.“ - A. Philip Randolph
Rationing and Conservation
• During World War II, all
Americans were asked to
reduce the amount of
food, fuel, metal, and
rubber that they used.
– Rationing meant that you
were only given a set
amount of a particular
item.
– Conservation called for
people to reduce their
consumption on their own.
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Citizenship, Civil Rights &
Japanese Internment
Historical Background
• Aliens or Immigrants
• Asian Immigration &
American Nativism
(1870s-1920s)
• Legacies of Anti-Asian
Sentiment
Harper’s Weekly
illustration from 1870s
was critical of antiChinese sentiment.
Image 1
Wanto Grocery, owned by an Asian American, UC Berkeley
graduate. (California, December 1941)
Image 2
Reading evacuation orders on a bulletin board in Los Angeles.
These families will have as little as one week to report to the
relocation center. (1942) Library of Congress.
Image 3
Dorothea Lange, “One Nation Indivisible.” Pledge of Allegiance
at Rafael Weill Elementary School a few weeks prior to
evacuation. (San Francisco, 1942)
Image 4
Japanese Americans register for internment at the Santa Anita
reception center in Los Angeles. (1942) Library of Congress
Image 5
Evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old train station in
Los Angeles, CA. The train will take them to Owens Valley.
(April 1942) Library of Congress
Image 6
Japanese Americans waiting to board the train that will take them to
the internment camp in Owens Valley. (April 1942)
Image 7
“All Packed Up and Ready to Go” Editorial Cartoon, San
Francisco News (March 6, 1942)
Image 8
Family arriving in internment camp barracks, from the Tacoma
New Tribune, University of Washington. (no date)
Image 9
An American Soldier on guard duty at an internment camp holds a
Japanese American child. Tacoma News Tribune, University of
Washington.
Image 10
Internment camp mess hall. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, University of
Washington.
Image 12
G.S. Hante, a barber in Kent, Washington, displays his sentiments
about internment. (March 1944)
An Apology
In 1988, the U.S.
government apologized
to Japanese Americans
for these internment
camps and paid all
internees $20,000.
These payments were awarded to
82,210 Japanese Americans or
their heirs at a cost of
$1.6 billion
Internment Camp Reading
Anti -Semitism
This is the term given to
political, social and
economic agitation against
Jews.
Aryan Race
This was the name of what Hitler
believed was the perfect race. These
were people with full German blood,
blonde hair and blue eyes.
Between 1939 and 1945
six million Jews were
murdered, along with
hundreds of thousands of
others, such as Gypsies,
Jehovah’s Witnesses,
disabled and the
mentally ill.
Percentage of Jews killed in each country
A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS
USED BY THE NAZIS.
16 of the 44 children
taken from a French
children’s home.
They were sent to a
concentration camp
and later to Auschwitz.
ONLY 1 SURVIVED
A group of
children at a
concentration
camp in Poland.
Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B poison
gas pellets found at Majdanek death
camp.
Before poison gas was used ,
Jews were gassed in mobile gas
vans. Carbon monoxide gas
from the engine’s exhaust was
fed into the sealed rear
compartment. Victims were
dead by the time they reached
the burial site.
Smoke rises as the
bodies are burnt.
Bales of hair shaven
from women at
Auschwitz, used to
make felt-yarn.
After liberation, an Allied
soldier displays a stash of
gold wedding rings taken
from victims at Buchenwald.
Writing Prompt
• Compare and contrast the Japanese
internment camps to the concentration camps
of the Holocaust. What were the main goals
of each? How did these camps affect society?