US HOME FRONT Pick up WWII a Nation coming

together #29, Let finish WW1 Notes

Learning Target: I can use visual information to gain information about how WWII affected Americans.

Using the laptop go to the WWII Home Front PP and look at the rest of the photos to answer.

Navajo Code TalkersHow did the Navajo Code Talkers

contribute to the war effort?

How did African American contribute to the war effort?

"Surrounded by a veteran crew of Marines who have spent 15 months in the Southwest and Central Pacific, this gun, named the 'Lena Horne' by its crew, points majestically skyward. The gun is manned by members of [the 51st] Defense Battalion, one of two such Negro units in the Corps."

"Pfc. Luther Woodward..., a member of the Fourth Ammunition Company, admires the Bronze Star awarded to him for `his bravery, initiative and battle-cunning.' ..."

A dispensary at a Naval ammunition depot in the Marianas. Prevention against a case of sore throat

Full Scale Wartime Production After Pearl Harbor people rallied behind

the war efforts with full mobilization of industry and armed forces

This included: Rationing food, gas, luxury items blackout drills Meatless Tuesdays and victory gardens

Role of Women

200,000 women joined the military- WAC where they operated radios, repaired planes and vehicles and clerical duties

5 million women worked in factories devoted to wartime production

although their pay was always less then men!

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African Americans Nearly 1 million served in the military –

segregated units Initially not in combat, later as war dragged on

African American men saw combat Tuskegee Airmen – some of the most decorated

flyers At home: moved North to work in factories,

some met with racial violence Despite this they earned more than ever before

Japanese Americans Thousands of Nisei, or Japanese

Americans were US citizens After the attack at Pearl Harbor the US

believed that they were a threat to national security

Wartime Relocation Authority (WRA) Executive Order 9066 established

military zones for imprisonment (see Japanese Pwrtpt)