“A date which will live in infamy” SCR PG 5 December 7, 1941 “A date which will live in infamy”

Organizing the Economy War Production Board- helped factories shift from consumer goods to materials needed for war (guns, ships, aircrafts, etc.)

Rationing Rationing- Gov’t limited the amount of goods that Americans could buy. *Provides more resources for the military*

Jobs for Women *Women worked outside the home because large numbers of men had entered military service.* Office workers, factory workers, welders, bus drivers, police officers, gas station clerks, etc.

SCR PG 8

Japanese Internment Camps FDR feared that Japanese Americans living in California and Hawaii might act as spies and help Japan invade the U.S. Approx. 110,000 were forced to live in internment camps.

1988 – U.S. Apologizes Pres. Ronald Reagan and Congress passed legislature that granted any survivor of the internment camps $20,000. U.S. realized their actions were based on war prejudice and war hysteria.

SCR PG 7