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US Home Front

US Home Front. Full Scale Wartime Production. After Pearl Harbor people rallied behind the war efforts with full mobilization of industry and armed forces This included: Rationing food, gas, luxury items blackout drills Meatless Tuesdays and victory gardens. Role of Women.

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US Home Front

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  1. US Home Front

  2. Full Scale Wartime Production • After Pearl Harbor people rallied behind the war efforts with full mobilization of industry and armed forces • This included: • Rationing food, gas, luxury items • blackout drills • Meatless Tuesdays and victory gardens

  3. Role of Women • 200,000 women joined the military- WAC where they operated radios, repaired planes and vehicles and clerical duties • 5 million women worked in factories devoted to wartime production although their pay was always less then men!

  4. Home Front finances.. • To pay for the war Americans were encouraged to buy bonds!

  5. Home Front Conservation Efforts: • Americans conserved and recycled MORE during WW II than even today!

  6. Home Front Patriotism

  7. African Americans • Nearly 1 million served in the military – segregated units • Initially not in combat, later as war dragged on African American men saw combat • Tuskegee Airmen – some of the most decorated flyers • At home: moved North to work in factories, some met with racial violence • Despite this they earned more than ever before

  8. Japanese Americans • Thousands of Nisei, or Japanese Americans were US citizens • After the attack at Pearl Harbor the US believed that they were a threat to national security • Wartime Relocation Authority (WRA) • Executive Order 9066 established military zones for imprisonment (see Japanese Pwrtpt)

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