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    The document is notes from a history class discussing World War 2 and the home front. It includes information about: - Opportunities created by the war such as economic gains from defense industries and falling unemployment, population shifts to towns with new jobs, and the GI Bill providing education benefits and home/business loans for veterans. - Social adjustments as families dealt with fathers in the military and adjusting when they returned, and couples rushing to marry before deployments. - Civil rights protests as racial tensions rose in Northern cities during the war and the 1943 Detroit race riots. - The internment of over 110,000 Japanese Americans in prison camps, which the Supreme Court upheld but compensation was later provided.

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    of 18

    Thursday February 12th

    Grab the worksheet as you enter!

    Happy Charity Week!!


    You look sooo Athens!!

    Test scores are on Edline

    Test Corrections

    Today - After school (until 2:30)


    Friday Before school (@7:00) or After
    School

    Agenda

    Notes Section 1

    Chapter 17 Section 1
    Mobilizing for Defense

    Main

    Idea: The U.S. helps lead the Allies to victory in


    World War II, but only after dropping atomic bombs on
    Japan. American veterans discover new economic
    opportunities, but also simmering social tensions.

    Essential

    Question: How did the United States use its


    resources to win World War II?

    Main

    Idea: Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the


    United States mobilizes for war.

    Why

    it Matters: Military industries in the United States


    today are a major part of the American economy.

    ow did women and minorities join in the war effort?

    Americans Join the War Effort

    Selective Service and the GI

    After Pearl Harbor, 5 million men volunteer for military


    service
    10 million more drafted to meet needs of two-front war

    Expanding the Military

    General George MarshallArmy Chief of Staffcalls for


    womens corps
    Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)women in
    G-Pa Schoony
    noncombat positions
    Thousands enlist; auxiliary dropped, get full U. S. army
    benefits

    ow did women and minorities join in the war effort?

    Americans Join the War Effort


    Recruiting

    and Discrimination

    Minority groups are denied basic citizenship rights


    Question whether they should fight for democracy in
    other countries

    Dramatic

    Contributions

    300,000 Mexican Americans join armed forces


    1 million African Americans serve; live, work in
    segregated units
    13,000 Chinese Americans and 33,000 Japanese
    Americans serve
    25,000 Native Americans enlist

    How did the war change life at home?

    A Production Miracle

    The Industrial Response

    Factories convert from civilian to war production


    Shipyards, defense plants expand, new ones built
    Produce ships, arms rapidly
    use prefabricated parts
    people work at record speeds

    Labors Contribution

    Nearly 18 million workers in war industries; 6 million are women


    Over 2 million minorities hired; face strong discrimination at first
    A. Philip Randolph, head of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
    Organizes march on D.C.; FDR executive order forbids
    discrimination

    Mobilization of Scientists

    Office of Scientific Research and Developmenttechnology,


    medicine
    Manhattan Project develops atomic bomb

    How did the federal government regulate American life


    during the war?

    The Federal Government Takes


    Control

    Economic

    Controls

    Office of Price Administration (OPA) freezes


    prices, fights inflation
    Higher taxes, purchase of war bonds lower
    demand for scarce goods
    War Production Board (WPB) says which
    companies convert production
    allocates raw materials
    organizes collection of recyclable materials

    Rationing

    Rationingfixed allotments of goods needed


    by military

    WAS WORLD WAR II JUSTIFIED


    BY ITS RESULTS?

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    Agenda

    Notes 17-4
    Finish your notes, questions, vocab
    Worksheet

    Chapter 17 Section 4
    The Home Front

    Breakin it down
    Main

    Idea: After World War II,


    Americans adjusted to new economic
    opportunities and harsh social tensions.

    Why

    it Matters: Economic opportunities


    afforded by World War II led to a more
    diverse middle class in the United States.

    WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DID THE


    WAR CREATE AT HOME?

    What opportunities did the war create at home?

    Economic

    Gains

    Defense industries boom, unemployment falls


    to 1.2% in 1944
    average pay rises 10% during war thats alot

    Farmers prosper from rising crop prices,


    increase in production
    many pay off mortgages

    Percentage of women in work force rises to 35%


    Population

    Shifts

    War triggers mass migrations to towns with


    defense industries

    WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DID


    THE WAR CREATE AT HOME?

    What opportunities did the war create at home?

    Social

    Adjustments

    Families adjust to fathers in military; mothers


    rear children alone
    Families must get to know each other again
    after fathers return
    Many couples rush to marry before husband
    goes overseas
    1944 GI Bill of Rights or Servicemens
    Readjustment Act:
    pays education; loan guarantees for homes, new
    businesses yup

    How did World War II affect African Americans and Mexican


    Americans?

    HOW DID WORLD WAR II AFFECT AFRICAN


    AMERICANS AND MEXICAN AMERICANS?
    Civil

    Rights Protests

    Racial tensions rise in overcrowded


    Northern cities
    James Farmer founds Congress of
    Racial Equality (CORE)
    works on racial segregation in North

    1943 racial violence sweeps across


    country; Detroit riots worst case
    Tension

    in Los Angeles

    Anti-Mexican zoot suit riots involve


    thousands servicemen, civilians

    What reason was given for the internment of Japanese


    Americans?

    WHAT REASON WAS GIVEN FOR THE


    INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS?

    Japanese Americans Placed in Internment Camps I like pie

    Hawaii governor forced to order internment (confinement) of Japanese


    1942 FDR signs removal of Japanese Americans in four states
    U.S. Army forces 110,000 Japanese Americans into prison camps
    1944 Korematsu v. United StatesCourt rules in favor of internment
    After war, Japanese American Citizens League pushes for compensation
    1988, Congress grants $20,000 to everyone sent to relocation camp

    WAS WORLD WAR II JUSTIFIED


    BY ITS RESULTS?

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