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Mobilizing the Home Front. During WW2 15,000,000 Americans served in the military Winning the war depended on mobilizing the home front to support & supply the armed forces. Geography Time… Why is it IMPERATIVE to be able to mobilize?. Combat Training.
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Mobilizing the Home Front • During WW2 15,000,000 Americans served in the military • Winning the war depended on mobilizing the home front to support & supply the armed forces Geography Time… Why is it IMPERATIVE to be able to mobilize?
Combat Training • Army, navy & air bases were built all over the country • Recruits were trained to fight in the jungles of the Pacific, deserts of North Africa & towns/ farmlands of Europe
Women joined all armed services - Carrier pilots from base to base - Taught men to fly - Were not allowed in combat
War Production Board: Helped factories shift from making consumer goods to making guns, ships, aircrafts & war materials
For Example…. automobile makers now made tanks & trucks
In 1942 alone American workers produced more than 48,000 planes & shipped over 8,000,000 tons of goods
As production of war goods went up, production of consumer goods went down
Rationing: limitations on the amounts of certain goods that people could buy • Rationing coupons bought coffee, sugar, meat, gas • “Waste Makes Haste”
Victory Gardens: During WW2, vegetable gardens planted to combat food shortages in the U.S. Over 20,000,000 gardens produced 40% of all veggies grown in the country! We’ll be making our very own… wootwoot!
To pay for the war, the gov’t raised taxes & sold war bondsMovie stars helped to sell these bonds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxRKwKJI_uI&feature=related
In Fact… • 1941 Marvel (Timely) • Alter ego of Steve Rogers, a wimpy young man who was enhanced to the peak of human perfection by gov’t experimental super-serum in order to aid the United States war effort in WW2 • An intentionally patriotic creation who fought the Axis powers
The war ended the Depression • Unemployment fell = millions of jobs opened in factories • Minority workers found jobs where they had been rejected
ALPHABET SOUP ROUNDABOUT! • I have some ABC soup…. • You will blindly grab a letter from my soup • Create a ginormous circle in alphabetical order • If you have a “d” or a “p” – YOU DECIDE which it will be, BUT there can only be 1 of each letter! Negotiate… • When we get to you, you think of a word/person/theme/phrase that has to do with the WW2 UNIT SO FAR that begins with your letter • We keep cycling until people are eliminated
Let’s Decorate the Room! • Create a poster to hang in the classroom. Must include: • 1 of the themes to the left • 1 main “catchphrase” • 1-2 sentences describing your point • Main illustration • Color • Your name • Rationing • Enlistment • Women at Work • Work in Industry • Recycle Materials for Battle • Victory Gardens • War Bonds