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Boys encourage

New Yorkers to

donate aluminum

$320 billion on war effort

1. War Bonds (60%)

Postal Savings Plan?

2. Revenue Act of 1942: Made more businesses & people pay taxes (Right from paycheck)

Unions agreed not to strike during war

15 mil. went to war!Who fills these

jobs?

The unemployed at first

60% less pay & no

job security

Women (over 6 mil.)

Rosie the Riveter

Propeller inspections

Woman Ordinance

Worker

1.Japanese Internment

2. Zoot Suit Riots

Worry about loyalty of Japanese Americans if

Japan attacked USExecutive

Order 9066: Authorized

the removal

Relocation camp in Gila

River, AZ

Dust storm in Manzanar, CA. 7/3/42.

Family apartment (converted horse stall)

5 people in 2

rooms

Hirano family at Colorado River Rel. Center,

Poston, AZ.

A makeshift classroom

Prison within a

prison. A steel cell

block for 4 prisoners

at Manzanar

1988: Congress issued a

formal apology & gave each

survivor $20,000

Pres. Reagan signed it into law

Let’s read

about the Zoot Suit

Riots!

1. Japanese internment was necessary

because...2. Japanese internment is

a sad chapter in our nation’s history because...

Create a propaganda poster including a

slogan & design that could have been seen in the U.S. during WWII.