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WW II Lesson 2 The Home Front

WW II Lesson 2 The Home Front. 2007 Jo Dee Jolliff. Vocabulary. Rationing Tuskegee Airmen Atomic Bomb Manhattan Project. Rationing. Government limits the amount of gas, food, sugar, and other items that families could buy each month. Atomic Bomb. Massive explosion of energy

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WW II Lesson 2 The Home Front

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  1. WW II Lesson 2The Home Front 2007 Jo Dee Jolliff

  2. Vocabulary • Rationing • Tuskegee Airmen • Atomic Bomb • Manhattan Project

  3. Rationing Government limits the amount of gas, food, sugar, and other items that families could buy each month.

  4. Atomic Bomb • Massive explosion of energy • Albert Einstein warned President Roosevelt that Germany might be working on an atomic bomb.

  5. The Home Front Certain cities began to grow and double in population. Factories were altered so they could begin making military equipment. (ships, guns, planes, bullets, uniforms) 80% of new workers were female Creation of new jobs ended the Great Depression

  6. New Jobs for Women Nurses, airplane pilots, radio operators, and mechanics. Factory workers and baseball players Scholastic Web site link below http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/ahf/reilly/intro.htm

  7. Web Site for Interviews • http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/

  8. Rationing • Stamps for meat, dairy, and canned vegetables. • When your stamps ran out for that food you could not buy it again until next month.

  9. Victory Gardens

  10. Scrap Drives Metal was collected to recycle pots, pans, and toys.

  11. African Americans African Americans left the South and moved to work in the cities located in the North and West. Discrimination still existed.

  12. Tuskegee Airmen First African Americans to serve as pilots in the military.

  13. Japanese Americans Executive Order #9066 Japanese Americans were moved into internment camps.

  14. Executive Order #9066 • People were afraid that Japan would soon attack the West Coast. They feared that Japanese Americans would help in the attack against the US. • Order 9066 allowed the military to remove anyone seen as a threat.

  15. Technology Radar and Sonar Helped to find objects in the water or darkness Code Breakers Sending messages by secret code Code breakers would break the code Enigma code Complicated German code machine broken by British mathematicians

  16. Albert Einstein • http://www.history.com/media.do?id=tdih_jul16_broadband&action=clip • Test run of the atomic bomb

  17. Manhattan Project Manhattan Project: the secret building of the atomic bomb. Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico. J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project.

  18. Vocabulary Allotment given out • Rationing • Tuskegee Airmen • Atomic Bomb • Manhattan Project First African Americans to serve as pilots in the military Massive explosion of energy Secret project of building the bomb

  19. Essential Question How did life on the home front change after the US entered WW II?

  20. Changes • Women went to work in the factories • Factories changed what they produced • People did with less so that soldiers could have what they needed • Children collected scrap metal and helped with victory gardens

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