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Unit 5, Part 2 The War Front at Home

Unit 5, Part 2 The War Front at Home. FDR and the arsenal of democracy FDR promised to build 50,000 airplanes, people laughed We built 300,000 airplanes / 71,000 ships / 80,000 tanks Decrease in farm labor, caused prices to double

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Unit 5, Part 2 The War Front at Home

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  1. Unit 5, Part 2 The War Front at Home

  2. FDR and the arsenal of democracy FDR promised to build 50,000 airplanes, people laughed We built 300,000 airplanes / 71,000 ships / 80,000 tanks Decrease in farm labor, caused prices to double Depression limits on farm goods eliminated, all out effort, creating bumper crops

  3. Women & the War Effort 250,000 women serve, 38 KIA Flew airplanes into war zones, towed practice targets Rosie the Riveter – built planes and much more Conscription 15 before Pearl Harbor, first peacetime draft in US History Over 15 million men/women served

  4. Paying for War War Bonds – loans from regular folk to finance the war, paying interest later Pay through your paycheck War bond drives (Abbott and Costello) Hollywood and War Movies made about war, patriotic showing the might of the American military

  5. War and minorities at home War contracts filled with companies that only hired whites Protest march on Washington Executive order 8802, no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries…

  6. Japanese Americans Executive Order 9066; Removal of 127,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps Korematsu v. United States (1944) challenged the Constitutionality of internment Justice Hugo Black; “He was excluded because we were at war with the Japanese Empire, because the properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion on the West Coast…

  7. Segregation in the Armed Forces Black out enlisted whites by 60 % Usually assigned as laborers, ship loaders, etc. Tuskegee Airmen fighter squadron, never lost a bomber from an enemy fighter “A Jim Crow Army cannot fight for a free world”

  8. The Holocaust Final solution, a systematic elimination of the Jewish people Genocide New of the Holocaust reached Europe, but most found it unbelievable Two men escaped Auschwitz, begged Allied leaders to bomb it 6 Million Jews, 11 million total killed

  9. The End of Part 2

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