Good Morning!!!

1. NVC

2. HOT ROC: Pearl Harbor Conspiracy

3. Economic Changes at Home

Essential Question(s): Did the US have prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor? What economic changes occurred on the home front?Homework: Enjoy your weekend

Pearl Harbor Conspiracy?!

• Did the United States have prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor?– Did we LET it happen?!– What evidence did you find most convincing?

Transition: Rosie the Riveter

• Rosie the Riveter Clip– What is the message? – Is it effective?

• Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CQ0M0wx00s

Women and the Changing Economy

• New Opportunities for women in the work place– “Rosie the Riveter”

propaganda– Struggles for equal pay,

combating gender roles continue

Other Economic Changes at Home

• War Bonds: Citizens “buy” bonds, giving money to the government

• War Production Board: manage the mobilization of civilian industries to make military equipment

• Tax Increases: needed to pay for increased government war spending

• Rationing: limited distribution of food, gasoline, etc• Price Controls: scarcity of goods = high demand, government

decides price to prevent big increases• Great Depression Ends: demand for military supplies revives

the economy, incomes and jobs increase

35.1, 35.2, 35.3 : Economic Changes at Home

• Read pg.449-453 for more depth