Transcript Entertainment propaganda Life on the Home Front

U.S. Prepares for War
-”Cash and Carry “ policy begins to
allow warring nations to buy US
arms, as long as they paid cash &
transported them in their own
ships
-Axis Powers formed J/G/I
-Selective Service begins draft
process (in case of a 2 front war)
-Roosevelt seeks third term & wins
-Lend-Lease policy begun to help
supply allies-Arsenal of
Democracy GB had NO money
-Atlantic Charter signed between
U.S. and Britain becomes basis
for United Nations
resembles 14 points of Wilson
Hitler’s Mistake
-Battle of Britain has stalled
-June 1941 Germany attacks Russia
-early success but then stalemate
-Russian winter sets in and halts
advance
-Now war is on two fronts
U.S. enters the War
-U.S. has embargo on Japan for
actions of Aggression in the
Pacific (J hoped to unit all of East
Asia) Japan could not live w/o our
Oil.*Defeating J w/o firing a shot
-U.S. had warning of a possible
Japanese attack somewhere
- Early Dec. 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor
Hawaii is attacked
“day that will live in infamy”
-U.S. declares war on Japan and
then Germany, Italy declare war
on U.S.
*For 1 ½ hrs, J was barely
disturbed by US Guns
*Killed 2,400 Americans
*wounded 1,178
*Sunk/Damaged 21 HUGE Battleships
*Destroyed 300 Aircrafts
*More Damaged combined than all WW
Americans in the Service
-millions volunteered and millions
more were drafted: Selective
Service System Expanded
-GI’s went to basic training for 8
weeks
-Women’s Auxiliary Corps
thousands volunteered- served in
Nonbattle/Non Combat positions
-Minorities served in segregated
units- not allowed combative roles
until last year of the war
Tuskegee Airmen 1st all AA Air
force, Africa
Life on the Home Front= Production Miracle
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials ex: automobile
plants retooled to produce
tanks/planes
WWII brought the US out of the
Great Depression!
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
Life on the Home Front
-Scientists are mobilized: to bring
into the war effort
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project) :
intensive program to build an
atomic bomb in shorter than 3 yrs
*Albert Einstein warned against it
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter” icon for
women in the workforce- propanda
-Entertainment propaganda
-newsreels
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda
Life on the Home Front
-War Production Board
industries were retooled to make
war materials
-Scientists are mobilized
radar, sonar, penicillin, atomic
bomb (Manhattan Project)
-women stepped into many war
materials jobs
“Rosie the Riveter”
-Entertainment propaganda:
Hollywood churned out War
propaganda films
Government Control
-Inflation controlled by price
freezes
-many products rationed to
conserve resources :Coupon books
to be used for buying such scare
items- meat, shoes, coffee
gasoline
-income taxes increased
-War Bonds sold –loaning the Gov’t
$
-Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. United States
Government Control
-Inflation controlled by price
freezes
-many products rationed to
conserve resources
-income taxes increased
-War Bonds sold
-Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. United States
discriminatory policy???
Government Control
-Inflation controlled by price
freezes
-many products rationed to
conserve resources
-income taxes increased
-War Bonds sold
-Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. United States
discriminatory policy???
German
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