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WWII Home Front Support & Government Oversight: A Comprehensive Overview

Explore how people on the home front supported the war effort, the role of the War Production Board, and the impact of WWII on America's political and social landscape. Discover the sacrifices, initiatives, and changes that shaped this pivotal period in history.

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WWII Home Front Support & Government Oversight: A Comprehensive Overview

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  1. 8X 4-14-2015 Objectives: Describe political and social developments during WWII. Agenda: • Do now: page 814 #1A and 1B • Discuss do now and homework • Fill in graphic organizer with information from the reading and video clips • Homework: copy main ideas and big idea from chapter 26.3. Copy and define key terms and people.

  2. 814 1A. How did people on the home front support the war effort? TS: victory gardens, donating foods, commercial farms went to war, not a lot of supplies: sugar, etc, young men as soldiers, women as pilots and nurses DH: sacrifices: ration cards – limit amount of things you can buy, collected scrap metal, bought war bonds from the government – money would go to military. Repay with interest, everyone was supportive, wasted nothing – “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” NP: factories – produced war vehicles and supplies, conservation, donated the scrap to military EC: soldiers, risked lives, supplied other nations with weapons and supplies, women worked in factories, 1B. What government agency oversaw factory production during the war? BK: The War Production Board (WPB) – factories produce war things. Banned making of cars. To increase military supply. EC: to support the Lend-Lease act and provide for other nations as well as arm ourselves.

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  4. Predict What is ideology? WWII – is a war of ideology – fascism and totalitarianism against democracy. Predict: How did WWII change America? • Government is getting bigger. People will protest this. • Brought us out of the GD • Hitler made people see the power of just one person. More careful of dangerous people. • More government dependency and in people’s lives • Isolation to world police • Became a significant world power. Most powerful in the world.

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