Transcript World War II - Margaret Mead Junior High School

World War II
Life at Home
Take Notes On:
• List examples of propaganda – what did they
want people to do
• Define ration
• What was the role of
– Women
– African Americans
– Native Americans
– Latinos
– Japanese Americans
examples of propaganda:
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Christmas War Bond
War cost $_______ billion – 10 times more than WWI
-Paid by _________ tax, __________ taxes, loans,
& _____ ____
Building an Army
• Selective Service Act 19____ & 19____
• _______ million volunteers & draftees
• Draftees – physical exams & injections against
small pox & typhoid
• GIs – “___________ ___________” –
uniforms, boots, & equipment
• 8 weeks basic training – weapons, load
backpacks, read maps, pitch tents, dig
trenches
“Yet you say we’re fightin for democracy. Then why don’t
democracy [i]nclude me?” – Langston Hughes
African Americans
• _____ million served, 1st low level assignments
• Later combat & integrated units
• ___________ Airmen – 200 enemy planes
Native Americans
• “_______ ___________” – Navajos special code for
American communication
Latinos
• ______________ served in armed forces
• ____________ program – worker recruit from Mexico
Women
• WACs – Women’s __________ Corps
• WAVES – Women Appointed for ___________
_____________ ____________ in the Navy
(also in marines, Coast Guard, army air corps)
• Clerical workers or _________
• _____ combat
Rosie the Riveter
• 1st time to work
outside of home
• Paid ______ than
men
•Lost jobs once
men returned
•Changed public
opinion on role of
women in the
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War Economy
War Production Board
• Automakers switch to ______ ,
________ & _________
• 2.5 million women go to
factories – airplanes, shipyards,
other manufacturing
• ________ __________–
volunteer spotters watched for
enemy aircraft
•Coastal Cities – blackouts and
night
Office of Price Administration
•________
consumer prices and
rents
• Ration ______ ,
_______ , ________
, _________…
• Victory Gardens
•Smithsonian
Interactive
“After all those years, having worked his whole life to build a dream – having
it all taken away…He died a broken man.” – Peter Ota
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Nisei – ___________ ________(born in U.S.)
Government feared their __________
FDR order relocation of over _____________
_____________ camps – detention centers,
mainly West Coast in deserts
• 1944 Korematsu v. U.S. – Supreme Court
allowed relocation
• 1988 – U.S. admitted to injustices, formal
apology & $20,000 to each survivor