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Life at home

Life at home. Compare life at home during the War to Current times. Double V Campaign. Double Victory for African Americans on the home front and at war Victory over Fascism abroad Victory over discrimination at home Harlem Race riots 1942. Don’t Ask don’t tell, revoked.

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Life at home

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  1. Life at home Compare life at home during the War to Current times.

  2. Double V Campaign • Double Victory for African Americans on the home front and at war • Victory over Fascism abroad • Victory over discrimination at home • Harlem Race riots 1942

  3. Don’t Ask don’t tell, revoked • Mandated in a public law to reduce discrimination based on sexual orientation, prohibited anyone from disclosing their sexual orientation • End of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, September 20th, 2011.

  4. War Production Board • Supervised production for war purposes during WWII. • Military aircraft production totaled 6,000 in 1940 to 85,000 in 1943.

  5. Military Contracts • Lockheed Martin $50,223,372 • Northrup Grumman Space and Mission $24,365,763 • Boeing Company $12,100,000

  6. Internment • Korematsu v. United States: Constitutional * Executive Order 9066 Panic/ Fear 120,000 Americans went to “relocation camps” Camp Harmony

  7. Zoot Suit Riots • Arguments between Mexican Americans and military stationed in Los Angeles, California.

  8. Rationing / price control • Food shortages pushed prices up • Government controlled the prices of products

  9. Gas Price Control/ Taxes • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 2002, price caps on each megawatt of power bought to help control rolling blackouts. • 1973 oil crisis: OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo

  10. Women in the Workplace • Most were home • “double shift” • After the war: cultural division remained • Baby Boom • Home sales, Tupperware Party!!!

  11. Home Party sales • Tupperware • Mary Kay • Pampered Chef

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