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Almost 5 million women joined the workforce Replaced men who were fighting Held a variety of jobs

Women in Wartime. Almost 5 million women joined the workforce Replaced men who were fighting Held a variety of jobs. Factories. Offices. Police Officers. Welders. Rosie the Riveter. Fictional woman factory worker, became the symbol of US women contribution to the war effort. .

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Almost 5 million women joined the workforce Replaced men who were fighting Held a variety of jobs

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  1. Women in Wartime Almost 5 million women joined the workforce • Replaced men who were fighting • Held a variety of jobs

  2. Factories Offices Police Officers Welders

  3. Rosie the Riveter • Fictional woman factory worker, became the symbol of US women contribution to the war effort.

  4. Women Confidence ↑ • Women’s Pay ↑ • Working Conditions ↑ • Fashions change • Overalls and Scarves • NO SKIRTS ON THE JOB!

  5. Woahhh! Pop-Culture!!!! Things always come back in style!...

  6. African Americans at War AA’s fought a Double V Campaign • Victory abroad over the enemy. Victory at home over racial discrimination. • Still discrimination at home: “Help Wanted. Whites only” signs replaced “No Help Wanted” • FDR pushed to end racial discrimination in industry.

  7. Racial Tensions • AA employment doubled during WWII. • Racial tension increased as a result of mixed living in cities and work places. • In 1943, race riots broke out in Detroit, NYC, and other cities.

  8. Courage Under Fire • Nearly 1 mil. AA’s served in WWII. • All-AA units commanded by white officers. • Looked passed the racism fought for country

  9. Tuskegee Airmen • AA fighter pilots trained at Tuskegee, AL • By end of war, they destroyed about 400 enemy aircrafts

  10. Japanese Americans Japanese Americans who had been living in the U.S. & were not connected to issues abroad were met with a HUGE amount of racism Most lived on west coast, or in Hawaii

  11. Forced Relocation • After PH, many Americans treated Japanese Americans poorly & questioned their loyalty • Fear of spies BUT no evidence to support that fear • FDR signed order allowing army to move Japanese Americans from their homes to relocation camps • Many were U.S. citizens by birth

  12. Japanese Internment Camps • 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to sell their homes, farms or businesses at great loss • In camps, they lived in crowded barracks behind barbed wire

  13. Fighting in WWII • Despite unfair treatment, thousands of Japanese American men served in the U.S. army • Most were put into segregated units & sent to fight in Europe (more dangerous)

  14. WOOOPS!!! • *1988 – Congress apologized to Japanese Americans who had been sent to camps during the war. • * Congress then approved compensation: repayment for losses - $20,000 to each camp survivor

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