US Home Front – WW2 Chapter 25
Women’s Army Corps
War Production Board
Military aircraft total Summary of production System Allies Axis Tanks and SP guns 227,235 52,345 Artillery 914,683 180,141 Mortars 657,318 100,000+ Machineguns 4,744,484 1,058,863 Military trucks 3,060,354 594,859 Military aircraft total 633,072 278,795 Fighter aircraft 212,459 90,684 Attack aircraft 37,549 12,539 Bomber aircraft 153,615 35,415 Transport aircraft 43,045 5,657 Training aircraft 93,578 28,516 Aircraft carriers 155 16 Battleships 13 7 Cruisers 82 15 Destroyers 814 86 Submarines 422 1,336
National War Labor Board
John L. Lewis – Coal Strike - 1943
Rosie the Rivoter
AA March on DC – A. Philip Randolph
Executive Order 8802 No desegregation of military No discrimination of workers in gov’t jobs Formed Fair Employment Practices Comm.
Tuskegee Airmen
Detroit Race Riot 1943
Zoot Suit Riots
Individual Income Tax Act of 1944 Revenue Act of 1942 Year / # of Brackets/ lowest rate/ top rate / top bracket / modern day equivalent 1932 55 4% 63% $1,000,000 $16.4M Depression era 1936 31 79% $5,000,000 $80.7M 1941 32 10% 81% $76.3M World War II 1942 24 19% 88% $200,000 $2.75M Revenue Act of 1942 1944 23% 94% $2.54M Individual Income Tax Act of 1944 1946 20% 91% $2.30M
Office of War Information Patton Newsreel MacArthur Returns to Philippines
Dorothy Lamour
Edward R. Murrow
Ernie Pyle
Cartoon Propaganda Bugs and War Bonds Bugs Bunny – Japan Disney Propaganda