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World War II: The Home Front. The Depression Ends. FDR knew that our country was the only country that could make enough weapons to defeat the Axis. FDR challenged the U.S. to make more weapons…which caused factories to increase…which caused jobs to ______________.
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The Depression Ends • FDR knew that our country was the only country that could make enough weapons to defeat the Axis. • FDR challenged the U.S. to make more weapons…which caused factories to increase…which caused jobs to ______________. • The Depression finally came to a close!
Women in the War sent military codes mechanics radio operators nurses factories: built war-related items airplane pilots
Women in the War • Besides creating many jobs for women, the war even created jobs in entertainment for women. • An All-American Girls’ Baseball League formed.
Why do you think some people did not think women could endure hardship?
“Do Your Part!” • All Americans helped during WWII. • Children held “scrap drives.”
“Do Your Part!” • The government limited the amount of food each person could buy. • This is called ________________________. • Each family was given ration stamps each month and could only get so much dairy, meat, canned vegetables, etc.
“Do Your Part!” • “Victory gardens” were planted. • These gardens helped to produce more food for the country. • They were planted on building rooftops, or in backyards.
What problem did rationing of food and other items help solve?
Why do you think the war called on Americans to “do their part”?
New Opportunities • During WWII, discrimination wasn’t as hard of an issue as it had been. • Factories and the military needed all the workers, and people they could get.
New Opportunities • Many African Americans moved to find new jobs and were able to make more money than they had ever made before. • Often, though, their wages were less than that of white workers. • The military needed men to serve. • The war had segregated units: white units and African-American units.
New Opportunities • African-American men were allowed to fight for freedom around the world, but were still not given the freedom they deserved in the United States.
Tuskegee Airmen • The Air Force did not accept black pilots. • African-American leaders protested this and 12 young men began pilot training. • The Tuskegee Airmen force was born.
Tuskegee Airmen • They were sent to fight once they had proven themselves. • By the end of the war, blacks and whites fought together.
What can you conclude from the fact that although African Americans found work, they were often paid less?
How did World War II change life for many African Americans?
Japanese Americans • After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, many Americans began to suspect that Japanese Americans were the enemy. • Most Japanese Americans lived on the West Coast. • Many feared that Japanese Americans would help Japan attack again.
Japanese Americans • FDR signed Executive Order #9066 which allowed military to remove anyone from the West Coast seen as a threat. • Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes!
Japanese Americans • They were moved into relocation camps. • Many Japanese Americans wanted to serve America and asked for permission to join the military.
WWII Technology • An important part of WWII was to find new technologies. • Scientists in the Axis and Allies competed to invent new tools which would help their side win.
WWII Technology • Albert Einstein was one of the world’s most famous scientists. • He was a Jew who escaped from Germany and lived in the United States. • He told FDR that it was possible to build “extremely powerful bombs of a new type.”
WWII Technology • Atomic bombs would create massive explosive energy by splitting atoms, the basic unit of _____________. • Einstein warned that Germany was probably working on atomic bombs too.
WWII Technology • FDR put Einstein to work with the Manhatten Project. It was a code name given to the building of the atomic bomb. • By 1945, scientists were ready to test the world’s first atomic bomb.
WWII Technology • Scientists on both sides also raced to develop more complicated, secret codes. • Each side also worked to figure out—or “break”—the enemies’ codes.
