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Focus:. Would you support an act of war by congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor? Why or why not? What would be different in your life during wartime? What things would change? What sacrifices would you make, if any?. Americans Join The War Effort.

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  1. Focus: • Would you support an act of war by congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor? Why or why not? • What would be different in your life during wartime? What things would change? What sacrifices would you make, if any?

  2. Americans Join The War Effort • Selective Service-provided 10 million soldiers through the draft. Report for 8 weeks of BT. • These men were known as GI’s(Gov’t Issued) • Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps(WAAC) is formed by Army Chief of staff, General George Marshall. Theses women didn’t receive the same rank/pay as men performing same duties. • Issue? Who will do the cooking, the washing, the mending? In all, over 250k women served during the war effort.

  3. Cont… • African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Asian Americans; “Why die for democracy for some foreign country when we don’t even have it here?” • Under Axis control? • ½ million Mexican Americans join; over a million African Americans served, but were segregated into separate units.; 13k Chinese Americans; 33k Japanese Americans; 25k Native Americans, including 800 women.

  4. Life on the Home Front • 1942-no automobiles; retooled for the war effort(tanks, planes, boats, and command cars.) • Mechanical pencil factory began making bombs. • Shipyards began making Liberty ships, tankers, troop transports, and “baby” aircraft carriers. • By 1941, work was at a high demand, and people mobilized, including 6 million women and 2 million minority workers.

  5. Cont… • To protest discrimination in the work place, A. Philip Randolph became the nation’s leading African-American labor leader, and leads a march on Washington with success for minorities. • Scientists-OSRD is created(Office of Scientific Research and Development. Develop medicines, pesticides, and war technology, including the A-bomb(Manhattan Project).

  6. Cont… • Spending was up b/c wages were up, including for entertainment purposes. • Movies!!Movies!!! Movies!!!(Every week!) • Propaganda films become very popular. • Radio/magazines very popular(covering war)

  7. Focus • Discuss what you felt while watching the attack on Pearl Harbor in a 5-6 sentence paragraph. What would your response be? Think about the reality that the Pacific Fleet was completely destroyed!

  8. Japanese Internment • The American government stated that the internment was necessary for national security. Many were Nisei, or Japanese Americans born in the U.S.(2/3) • The actual deportations did not start until after February 19, 1942, when the first document was signed giving the military authority to evacuate people

  9. Cont…. • After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans--adults and children, immigrants and citizens alike. Decades later a congressional commission found the justification of military necessity to be false.

  10. Economic Controls • Prevent Inflation(define)? Production of consumer goods was falling while income rising-What happens to the value of the dollar? • Congress creates OPA(Office of Price Administration-Froze prices on most goods, raised income taxes, leaving them with less to spend. • War Production Board(WPB)-Conversion from peacetime production to wartime production, allocated raw materials by leading drives.

  11. Cont… • OPA sets up rationing, or fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military. • Homes received ration books. Used for everyday goods such as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gas. • Black market becomes popular. • Most people behaved like “patriotic, loyal citizens.”

  12. Activity with Partner • Compare and contrast the Nazi concentration camps with the Japanese Relocation camps? What was similar and what was different?

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