World War II

Life at Home

Take Notes On:

• List examples of propaganda – what did they want people to do

• Define ration• What was the role of

– Women– African Americans– Native Americans– Latinos– Japanese Americans

examples of propaganda:

• .• .• .• .• .

Christmas War Bond

War cost $_______ billion – 10 times more than WWI

-Paid by _________ tax, __________ taxes, loans, & _____ ____

Building an Army

• Selective Service Act 19____ & 19____• _______ million volunteers & draftees• Draftees – physical exams & injections against

small pox & typhoid• GIs – “___________ ___________” –

uniforms, boots, & equipment• 8 weeks basic training – weapons, load

backpacks, read maps, pitch tents, dig trenches

“Yet you say we’re fightin for democracy. Then why don’t democracy [i]nclude me?” – Langston Hughes

African Americans• _____ million served, 1st low level assignments• Later combat & integrated units• ___________ Airmen – 200 enemy planes

Native Americans• “_______ ___________” – Navajos special code for

American communication

Latinos• ______________ served in armed forces• ____________ program – worker recruit from Mexico

Women

• WACs – Women’s __________ Corps• WAVES – Women Appointed for ___________

_____________ ____________ in the Navy (also in marines, Coast Guard, army air corps)

• Clerical workers or _________• _____ combat

Rosie the Riveter• 1st time to work outside of home

• Paid ______ than men

•Lost jobs once men returned

•Changed public opinion on role of women in the ____________

War Economy

War Production Board

• Automakers switch to ______ , ________ & _________

• 2.5 million women go to factories – airplanes, shipyards, other manufacturing

• ________ __________– volunteer spotters watched for enemy aircraft

•Coastal Cities – blackouts and night

Office of Price Administration

•________ consumer prices and rents

• Ration ______ , _______ , ________ , _________…

• Victory Gardens

•Smithsonian Interactive

“After all those years, having worked his whole life to build a dream – having it all taken away…He died a broken man.” – Peter Ota

• Nisei – ___________ ________(born in U.S.)• Government feared their __________• FDR order relocation of over _____________• _____________ camps – detention centers,

mainly West Coast in deserts• 1944 Korematsu v. U.S. – Supreme Court

allowed relocation• 1988 – U.S. admitted to injustices, formal

apology & $20,000 to each survivor