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Objective: To examine the U.S. mobilization for war

Objective: To examine the U.S. mobilization for war. Selective Service Act. · During World War II, 10 million men were drafted, and another 6 million men and women enlisted. 12% of U.S. population served in WWII. More than 15 million men and 350,000 women served in U.S. armed forces

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Objective: To examine the U.S. mobilization for war

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  1. Objective: To examine the U.S. mobilization for war

  2. Selective Service Act • · During World War II, 10 million men were drafted, and another 6 million men and women enlisted. • 12% of U.S. population served in WWII. • More than 15 million men and 350,000 women served in U.S. armed forces • 18 % of U.S. families had a family member enlisted • Most Americans felt the draft was operated fairly, giving deferments (exceptions) to some college students, 2 million agricultural workers, & physically or mentally unable to serve

  3. Selective Service Act • Signed Sept. 14, 1940- first peacetime draft • Ages 21-35 required to register at local draft boards • Later ages 18-45 were eligible for service

  4. Discrimination in the military • Served in separate military units: • African Americans • Japanese Americans • Served in “white units”: • Hispanics • Native Americans • Chinese Americans • Italian Americans * Racial prejudices and tensions often decreased as men served with men unlike themselves.

  5. Government Controls the Economy 1942-1945 (Find on p. 567, what the agency or law regulated)

  6. Rationing: OPA created fixed amounts of products seen as necessary for the military. · Consumers faced a shortage of goods due to the war. • Many items, such as fuel, butter, and sugar, were rationed during the war. Examples: - No new cars were produced after 1942.

  7. Journal Write- Rationing • Rationing affected every American in some way. As an American on the homefront, write a journal entry of how rationing has affected you or your family. Include what items are rationed, whether you live in a rural or city setting… • Be creative! • Glue your ration stamp on your journal write in the notebook.

  8. U.S. War Time Posters for many reasons

  9. The wartime demand for goods ended the Great Depression and unemployment fell.

  10. New Roles for Women · Urgent need for women to enter the workforce: 1) to help with the war effort 2) to keep the nation’s economy going. · Over 6 million women entered the workforce, replacing men that joined the military. ←1942: a woman grinds the points on drills, and the drills will be used in the war effort.

  11. Not all women worked… • Only 4.4% of “skilled” jobs (like riveting) were held by women • Only 16% of women workers worked in defense plants • Number of working women increased by 57% during the war • 400,000 African American women left domestic jobs for higher paying industrial jobs. • 7 million women moved to war-production areas like Southern California • Women kept the American economy going.

  12. · “Rosie the Riveter” Postersymbolized the millions of women that worked in factories producing planes, tanks, ships, and other war goods. · Women enjoyed a newfound confidence in their ability and right to work outside of the home and many began to earn salaries equal to men. We Can Do It! Rosie the Riveter Artist: J. Howard Miller

  13. “Rosie the Riveter” Lyrics by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb, 1942 All the day long,Whether rain or shine, She's a part of the assembly line. She's making history, Working for victory, Rosie the Riveter. Keeps a sharp lookout for sabatoge, Sitting up there on the fuselage. That little girl will do more than a male will do. Rosie's got a boyfriend, Charlie. Charlie, he's a Marine. Rosie is protecting Charlie, Working overtime on the riveting machine. When they gave her a production "E," She was as proud as she could be. There's something true about, Red, white, and blue about, Rosie the Riveter.

  14. Relocation of Japanese Americans · After the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Americans questioned the loyalty of Japanese Americans, fearing they may act as spies or help Japan invade the U.S.

  15. We're gonna have to slap the dirty little JapAnd Uncle Sam's the guy who can do itWe'll skin the streak of yellow from this sneaky little fellowAnd he'll think a cyclone hit him when he's thru itWe'll take the double crosser to the old woodshedWe'll start on his bottom and go to his head Performed by Carson Robison, December 1941 – audio link

  16. When we get thru with him he'll wish that he was deadWe gotta slap the dirty little Jap We're gonna have to slap the dirty little JapAnd Uncle Sam's the guy who can do itThe Japs and all their hooey will be changed into chop sueyAnd the rising sun will set when we get thru itTheir alibi for fighting is to save their faceFor ancestors waiting in celestial spaceWe'll kick their precious face down to the other placeWe gotta slap the dirty little Jap

  17. The Wartime Relocation Agency (WRA) forced approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans to…

  18. …sell their homes and businesses,

  19. and relocate to inland camps, living in crowded barracks behind barbed wire. • They were released in 1944, after victory against the Japanese seemed imminent. Internment camp in Manzanar, California

  20. Japanese American Internment (U.S. Govt Propaganda)(9:26) Kenji - Manzanar (3:51) This is a video to the song "Kenji" by Fort Minor, or Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. It describes his family's life in the time of World War II and how they were put in a Japanese Internment Camp. Effects used in this make it seem as though the video was actually from 1942.

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