us & wwii - union city high...
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US & WWII!
Mobilizing for War!
Axis Advantages: Japan & Germany controlled more land & more prepared for war than Allies!
War was fought on Multiple fronts in France, USSR & Asia!
Allied Advantages: USSR’s massive military & United State’s massive production abilities!
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Production Boom: !
486,000 workers producing ammunition, cannon shells & rifles!
Built 300,000 aircraft by end of war!
1940-1945 US factories produced planes, tanks, jeeps & guns!
88,000 water to land crafts... 215 submarines... 147 aircraft carriers... 952 warships & 5,200 merchant ships!
Gov’t Expansion: !
War Productions Board = oversaw increased military production!
Office of War Mobilization = coordinated all gov’t agencies involved in war effort!
Directing Economy: !
Gov’t controlled economy!
Created income tax for M.C. & L.C. Americans!
Sold War Bonds!
Rationed gasoline, tires, coffee, sugar, meat, butter & canned goods!
Froze wage increases!
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Raising An Army: !
1940... US called National Guard to active duty!
Selective Training & Service Act = created first PEACETIME draft in US history... All men aged 18-45!
Before Draft: 269,023 Army... 160,997 Navy... 28,345 Marines!
12 million US soldiers fought in WWII!
300,000 women... nurses, drove vehicles & ferried planes in order to allow men to fight!
Rosie The Riveter!
Liberty Girl!
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Victory Garden!
Americans Remember The Homefront!
“When my son enlisted in the air force, he went to McDill Field in Florida. So I went there... Then I came back to Westminster... And found that people who didn’t have someone overseas were not too concerned. They were interested in bacon and sugar and gas, which I was not... I did a lot of war work... when I was at McDill, I worked in the hospital... I started to do some volunteer work in Westminster, like rolling bandages, but I couldn’t make it. The people I was doing it with were not in my situation at all. They were more concerned with what they were having to give up than with what was happening in Europe. I had people call me up and ask, ‘Do you have coupons? We can get butter tomorrow.’ I never stood in a line for a thing. I thought that if the men could do without it, so could I.” - Mary Speir!
Americans Remember The Homefront!
“[formed] a neighborhood Victory Garden, plowed up the backyards of three houses, and planted beans, corn, tomatoes, okra, squash, and all the things we could use. When the crop came in,... [we] used a pressure cooker and canned all day. I was canning until midnight and later, night after night, and I frequently said, ‘I wish I had Hitler in that pressure cooker.’” - Martha Wood!
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Women Working In US!
“Foremen from other departments come to my machine to ask me to do some work for them if I have time because they say I’m the best counter-sinker in the vast building! At forty-nine I’ve at last become not better than average, but the best!” - Female aircraft worker!
Victory Gardens!
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Gasoline Rationing!
Gasoline Rationing!
Rationing!
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Taxes & Bonds!
...They’re Watching Us...!
...They’re Watching Us...!
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...They’re Watching Us...!
...They’re Watching Us...!
Wartime Discrimination!
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Intro!
HAND IN CURRENT EVENTS ON AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST!
DISCUSS: What groups of people do you think were discriminated against during WWII? Why?!
Japanese Internment Camps!
Issei = Native born Japanese who moved to US!
Nisei = US born Japanese-Americas!
1942... Japanese-Americans put in detention camps in West & Midwest!
Hawaii placed under Martial Law!
Many Japanese-Americans STILL fought in WWII!
Interment Camps!
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Press Coverage!
Press Coverage!
Transportation to Camps!
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Sports @ Internment Camps!
Zoot-Suit Riots! Over 300,000 Mexican-
Americans served in WWII & Helped with Homefront Labor needs!
Moved from Southwest to West & Midwest for production jobs!
Discrimination in Housing, Jobs & Facility use!
Racial Hostility mostly between White & Mexican youths... led to riots & beatings!
Sum Up!
Why were the Japanese-Americans discriminated against?!
Why were the Mexican-Americans discriminated against?!
What group(s) today is(are) discriminated against?!
Why? Any similarities between today & WWII? What? !
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QUIZ TOMORROW "! STUDY!!!!!!!!
Fascism (3 countries), Totalitarianism (1), Militarism (1)!
Axis & Allied Powers (name those countries)!
“War of The Worlds” & Reactions!
Direct cause of US involvement in WWII!
Liberty Girl & Rosie The Riveter (what were they?)!
“When you ride alone you ride with [who?]”!
Japanese Internment & Zoot-Suit Riots!