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Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front and start working with a partner (15 Mins )

Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front and start working with a partner (15 Mins ). Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) describe life on the home front (2) analyze a video clip for key information. Homework.

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Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front and start working with a partner (15 Mins )

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  1. Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front and start working with a partner (15 Mins) Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) describe life on the home front (2) analyze a video clip for key information

  2. Homework • Open link posted on website and read/take notes (Two-column, underlining, highlighting, etc.) • DUE FRIDAY • If link does not work, find another article about the American Home Front and do the same thing.

  3. Powerful Home Front Essential Questions • How might a powerful economy help the US? • What are some advantages?

  4. Converted the Economy & Industry • Industry won the War • Cost-Plus Contracts: More equipment produced, the faster it was produced, the more money company made • Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC): Gave loans to companies

  5. “The greatest advantage the US enjoyed on the ground in the fighting was…the Jeep and 2.5 Ton truck. These are the instruments that moved and supplied US troops in battle, while the German army…depended on animal transport….The US, profiting from the mass production achievements of it’s automotive industry…had mobility that completely outclassed enemy”

  6. Liberty Ships: • Main cargo ships • Enormous advantage • Welded not riveted • Hard to sink

  7. Creating an Army • Selective Service and Training Act – Draft • Overwhelmed facilities • “GI’s” – Gov. Issued • 8-Week Basic Training  off to war • “Special Sense of Kinship”

  8. Increased role of women in factories and workforce

  9. Manpower –Educational Documentary (1943) • Please write down 3 CCQ’s on the video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAW_zwX9m80

  10. Do Now: Read "An American Story" on page 749, and answer the following question:How did Laura Brigg's outlook on life change with the beginning of World War II? How is this different than before? 

  11. Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) transfer knowledge of American Home Front to propaganda poster(2) describe life on the home front Homework: Finish reading the article posted on the website FYI – Midterm Review Sheet is on Website under USII Main Page

  12. Propaganda Played a Large Role Again

  13. Rationing • Limiting availability of products • Blue Points and Red Points • Red – Processed foods • Blue – Meats, fats, and oils • Used these coups when buying products

  14. Office of Price Administration • FDR put a control on prices and wages • Kept inflation under control

  15. Victory Gardens • People grew their own gardens • Scrap Drives held

  16. War Bonds (E-Bonds)

  17. “V” for Victory • Despite the hardships, Americans believed in the cause of the war!

  18. Create your Own Propaganda Poster • Choose one of these WWII topics we’ve discussed: • Joining the Army • Rationing • Buying War Bonds • Wage control • “V” for Victory • Victory Gardens

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