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Objective 10.03

Explore the multifaceted repercussions of war on the American economy, society, politics, and culture. War bonds, WACS, Rosie the Riveter, and more significantly shaped the nation. Discover how history unfolded during crucial wartime periods.

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Objective 10.03

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  1. Objective 10.03 Describe and Analyze the effects of the war on the American economic, social, political, and cultural life.

  2. War Bonds Created to finance the War effort by borrowing money from the people back home.

  3. WACS Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps- Established as a means of military service for women in WWII. Women served in clerical duties, radio operators etc., non combat duties

  4. War Production Board The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States. It rationed such things as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics.

  5. Rationing Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services: it restricts how much people are allowed to buy or consume.

  6. Selective Services Act This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 30 register with local draft boards. Later, when the U.S. entered World War II, all men aged 18 to 45 were made liable for military service, and all men aged 18 to 65 were required to register.

  7. Rosie the Riveter representing the six million women who worked in the factories that produced weapons during WWII. These women took the places of the male workers who were absent fighting in the Pacific and European theaters.

  8. African Americans migrated to escape the widespread racism in the South, to seek out employment opportunities in urban environments, and to pursue what was widely perceived to be a better life in the North. Northern Migration

  9. Korematsu v. US 1944Japanese Internment was the forced removal and internment of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans

  10. Japanese American Museum • The museum is located near downtown Los Angeles. It is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans.

  11. Fair Deal • the Fair Deal was President Truman’s policy of social improvement, outlined in his 1949 speech to Congress

  12. G.I. Bill Provided Education, Low interest Home Loans and Medical Treatment for returning veterans of WWII.

  13. Baby Boomers A baby boomer is a person born between 1946 and 1964 in the United States

  14. Middle Class The term often encompasses merchants and professionals, bureaucrats, and some farmers and skilled workers

  15. Levittown is the name of some large suburban developments created by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons:

  16. AFL-CIO the largest federation of unions in the United States

  17. Taft-Hartley • is a federal law that greatly restricts the activities and power of labor unions

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