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The American Homefront during World War II
CQ#3: What were the consequences of total war on the American Homefront? How did the war change American social, economic, and political life during and after the war?
Total War:
Homefront:
Conflict where nearly 100% of a nation’s energies & resources are devoted to war, without restraint
● Civilian population of a nation at war as an active support system for the military.
● How/where the war is “fought” away from the fighting and outside the military.
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Creating National Unity
•Wilson faced same problem during WWI•Lots of support for neutrality•Very Diverse Nation
○ Large ethnic populations with sympathies to both sides of the war
○ German-Americans largest ethnic group
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Issues Wilson & WWI FDR & WWII
Value Appeal
Democracy● “the world be made safe for
democracy” (War Message, 4/2/17)
Gov’t Agency
Tone of Propaganda
Effects on American Identity
Creating National Unity
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Issues Wilson & WWI FDR & WWII
Value Appeal
Democracy● “the world be made safe for
democracy” (War Message, 4/2/17)
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Gov’t Agency
Committee on Public Information
Tone of Propaganda
Effects on American Identity
Creating National Unity
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Issues Wilson & WWI FDR & WWII
Value Appeal
Democracy● “the world be made safe for
democracy” (War Message, 4/2/17)
Gov’t Agency
Committee on Public Information
Tone of Propaganda
Started with goals of emphasizing positive info and avoiding distortion but tended increasingly towards anti-German
Effects on American Identity
Creating National Unity
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Issues Wilson & WWI FDR & WWII
Value Appeal
Democracy● “the world be made safe for
democracy” (War Message, 4/2/17)
Gov’t Agency
Committee on Public Information
Tone of Propaganda
Started with goals of emphasizing positive info and avoiding distortion but tended increasingly towards anti-German
Effects on American Identity
100% Americanism, Germanophobia-->xenophobia, nativism
Creating National Unity
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Creating National Unity
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Issues Wilson & WWI FDR & WWIIValue Appeal Democracy
● “the world be made safe for democracy” (War Message, 4/2/17)
Freedom● Four Freedoms Speech
(State of the Union, 1/6/41)
Government Information Agency
Committee on Public Information Office of War Information
Tone of Propaganda
Started with goals of emphasizing positive info and avoiding distortion but tended increasingly towards anti-German
Effects on American Identity
100% Americanism, Germanophobia-->xenophobia, nativism
Creating National Unity
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The Four Freedoms• From FDR speech: 1941 State of the Union Address
○ January 6, 1941○ Before US entry
• Outlines what’s at stake in the War
○ Freedom of Speech
○ Freedom of Worship
○ Freedom from Want
○ Freedom from Fear
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Hugo Ballin (1942) Burbank, CA
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Norman Rockwell (1943) Saturday Evening Post
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Freedom of Speech
● Setting: Town Meeting
● Average American speaks
● Given respectful attention of diverse audience.
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Freedom of Worship
● Diverse Americans worshipping together
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Freedom from Want
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Freedom from Fear
● Only explicit reference to war○ Headline of
newspaper
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Changing Economy
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War Towns
Mobile Before the War Mobile Transformed
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Union Membership
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Sacrificing on the Homefront
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Race & World War II
Japanese American Internment
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Race & World War II (cont.)
Disrupting the Status Quo AA in the Military
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Race & World War II (cont.)
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Rosie the Riveter
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Women & Work in WWII•Many men (workers) in military waging war
•Many workers needed
•Women recruited to do “Men’s” Jobs
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Issues Wilson & WWI FDR & WWIIValue Appeal Democracy
● “the world be made safe for democracy” (War Message, 4/2/17)
Freedom● Four Freedoms Speech
(State of the Union, 1/6/41)
Government Information Agency
Committee on Public Information Office of War Information
Tone of Propaganda
Started with goals of emphasizing positive info and avoiding distortion but tended increasingly towards anti-German
Goal of emphasizing positive and common cause; demonization & racist caricature of Japanese more than German or Italian
Effects on American Identity
100% Americanism, Germanophobia-->xenophobia, nativism
● Limited Patriotic Assimilation
● Inspired activism for change for those still outside the boundaries of freedom
Creating National Unity