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694-702 Understand and recognize the use of propaganda during World War II.

694-702 Understand and recognize the use of propaganda during World War II. Describe conditions on the home front during the Second World War. Propaganda: Lies and half-truths designed to win support for one’s cause.

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694-702 Understand and recognize the use of propaganda during World War II.

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  1. 694-702 • Understand and recognize the use of • propaganda during World War II. • Describe conditions on the home front • during the Second World War. Propaganda: Lies and half-truths designed to win support for one’s cause.

  2. World War II PropagandaDirections: As we watch and listen to the following pieces of propaganda, write down how each tries to support the war. World War II Cartoon: • “Daffy Duck Meets Der Fuehrer” World War II Songs: • Freedom Train • Rosie The Riveter • In Der Fuehrer’s Face

  3. Mobilizing for World War II: • Creating a war economy • War Manpower Commission – allocated workers among industries. • War Production Board – managed industry and invested $17 billion into war factories. • Office of Price Administration – set price controls on goods & rationing. • All industries re-tooled to mfg. war materials. • Enlisting Science • Office of Scientific Research and Development was created with goal of building atomic bomb.

  4. Manhattan Project: • Led by Robert Oppenheimer • at Los Alamos, NM. • Two plants to produce the • plutonium and uranium for • the bombs. (Richland, WA • and Oak Ridge, TN). • Trinity Test – 7/16/45 at • Alamogordo Air Force Base • in New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer The Manhattan Project “Trinity Test”

  5. 3. Mobilizing Americans • American Indians • 25,000 served in integrated units • Navajo “code talkers” • African Americans – segregated units - 761stTank Batallian - 99thPursuit Squadron • Women - 350k served in military - WASP-(Women Air Force Service Pilots) - (WAC-Women Army Corps; WAVES-Navy)

  6. 4. The Home Front • Families impacted • Service Wives • Latchkey Children • Scrap Drives • Victory Gardens • Office of War Information • Developed propaganda • Censored soldiers letters • Blocked publication of war casualties.

  7. 4. The Home Front • New Workers joined the workforce • Women- 1940=6 million; 1944=19 million • Mexican-Americans- Bracero Program • Native Americans – 40k took “off-reservation” jobs • Blacks- won modest gains under the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) • Japanese-Americans- • 1942 FDR issued order #9066 for Internment Camps. • Korematsu v. US (1944) Supreme Court Case

  8. The Hellwig Brothers Farm (Chesterfield, MO), where nearly 100 internment camp relocatees are working. -- Gumbo, Missouri. 8/31/43

  9. Japanese-American employees on the HellwigBrothers farm west of St. Louis are here seen entering the specially built mess hall on the property.. 9/1/43

  10. Kitchen crew at the HellwigBrothers

  11. Showing some of the dormitories and the mess hall which were built by the Hellwig Brothers on their farm. 9/2/43

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