Transcript 35 American Homefront

The American Home front:
Mobilization, Propaganda,
and Racism
The Draft
Selective Service Act
- 1940
- first peacetime
draft
- all men ages 21-35
then 18- 45 had to
register
- local draft boards
determined
eligibility
Mobilizing for Victory
The government
controlled the
economy as it did
during World War I.
- the War Production
Board helped factories
to produce war goods,
set prices and ration
goods
Analyze the Following
Propaganda Posters and
identify what the
Government expected of
American Citizens
During World War II, 10 million men were drafted,
and another 6 million men and women enlisted.
Ration
cards and
coupons
“Rosie the Riveter”
symbolized the
millions of women that
worked in factories.
Over 6 million women
entered the workforce,
replacing men that
joined the military.
We Can Do It!
- Rosie the Riveter
Artist: J. Howard Miller
Relocation of Japanese Americans
· After the attack on Pearl
Harbor, many Americans
questioned the loyalty of
Japanese Americans,
fearing they may act as
spies or help Japan invade
the U.S.
The Wartime
Relocation
Agency
(WRA) forced
approximately
120,000
Japanese
Americans
to…
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…sell their homes and businesses,
and relocate to inland camps, living in
crowded barracks behind barbed wire.• They
were
released in
1944, after
victory
against the
Japanese
seemed
imminent.
Internment
camp in
Manzanar,
California
Japanese “Relocation Centers”
Japanese Internment What does this word mean?____________
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Korematsu vs. United States (1944)
Fred Korematsu was a Japanese-American.
• When Roosevelt issued Executive Order #9066, Korematsu
refused to go to the camps.
• He was arrested and sued because he believed his natural
rights were being violated.
SUPREME COURT RULING:
• The Supreme Court ruled that in times of war, a person’s
rights may be limited.
• Fred Korematsu was ordered to the “relocation camps”
Cartoons,
Propaganda,
and Racism
Goes to War
Causes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXKrecRIsM&feature=related
Soviet Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcBt904OJ0
Walt Disney- Hitler’s children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LO03pd6X-4&feature=related
Bugs Bunny- War Bonds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI8jKZ9HH3U&feature=related
Donald Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPB0JCuZY4&feature=related
Daffy Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulFHqPu__nY
Looney Tunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwIoLnKBdC4
Americans Dehumanize the Japanese
What does this Poster urge Americans
to do?
Americans Dehumanize the Japanese
Americans Dehumanize the Japanese