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World War II: The American Home Front

SHUT UP. PRODUCE. SACRIFICE. World War II: The American Home Front. & HATE. USHC 7.2.

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World War II: The American Home Front

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  1. SHUT UP PRODUCE SACRIFICE World War II: The American Home Front & HATE

  2. USHC 7.2 Evaluate the impact of war mobilization on the home front, including consumer sacrifices, the role of women and minorities in the workforce, and limits on individual rights that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans.

  3. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

  4. The Situation: 1941 The Allies The Axis Neutral WAR WAR WAR Occupied

  5. TOTALWar

  6. This MeansYOU

  7. So…SHUTYOUR MOUTH Especially you ladies… American women contributed to the war effort by working in munitions factories.

  8. And YOUR EARS American women contributed to the war effort by working in munitions factories.

  9. And really… JUST DON’T American women contributed to the war effort by working in munitions factories.

  10. THE WARECONOMY Government Regulation of: • Production • Pricing • Rationing

  11. War Production Board Peacetime industries converted to war production

  12. ROSIEthe Riveter Symbolic ofFemaleMunitions Workers

  13. Riveting!

  14. FDR’s Executive Order 8802 prohibited racial discrimination in the defense production industry.

  15. Office of PriceAdministration Government-controlled Price Ceilings

  16. Patriotic DUTY

  17. RATIONING

  18. Ration Stamps

  19. Ration Stamps

  20. Office of War Mobilization Coordinated all government war-related agencies James F. Byrnes (SC) James F. Byrnes Room (Clemson University) “Assistant President”

  21. Tokio Kid Douglas Aircraft Company (Government Contractor)

  22. REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

  23. For the kids! LINK Still from You’re A Sap, Mr. Jap (1942)

  24. Japanese-American Internment

  25. Internment Camps Former horse stalls converted for temporary occupation by Japanese American internees at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942 (Wikipedia)

  26. Korematsu v. United States 6-3 Fred Korematsu Internment of Japanese-Americans DOES NOT violate the Constitution.

  27. Korematsu v. United States Justice Hugo Black, a former Klan member, delivered the opinion of the Court. FAIL

  28. Better Late Than Never REPARATIONS President Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988

  29. In a Nutshell… SHUT UP PRODUCE SACRIFICE HATE Photo by ekurvine

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