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Women's Roles As WWII continued, women across the world were learning to work as factory workers, nurses, and journalists. Many women even joined the army through an organization called the Women's Army Corps. WWII also brought about an increase in women as subjects of propaganda as well as an increase in prostitution. Finally, women worked as drivers, farmers, mail delivery personnel, garbage collectors, builders, and mechanics.

Women's Roles These women were known as “Rosie the Riveter”

Role of African Americans Over 2.5 million African-American men registered for the draft, and black women also volunteered in large numbers. While serving in the Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, they experienced discrimination and segregation but met the challenge and persevered.

Role of African Americans Tuskegee Airman : African American fighter pilots were trained as a part of the Army Air Force, but only at a segregated base located in Tuskegee, Alabama. Hundreds of airmen were trained and many saw action.

Role of African Americans Tankers of the 761st Medium Tank Battalion - European Theater of Operations, August, 1944

Rationing and War Measures During World War II, rationing became a necessity. To wage a war of such a large magnitude half a world away in opposite directions required an absolutely phenomenal amount of personnel and materiel. Production was increased as much as was possible. Consumption was limited through rationing.

Rationing and War Measures Materials needed for the war included sugar, meat, coffee, liquor, silk stockings and products such as tires and gasoline.

Rationing and War Measures Each civilian received ration books that contained stamps that allowed a fixed amount of certain rationed items to be dispensed.

Japanese Internment. Executive Order 9066 called for the evacuation of all Japanese Americans to “Internment Camps”.

Japanese Internment. During the spring and summer of 1942, the United States Government moved 110,000 people of Japanese descent from their homes in an area bordering the Pacific coast. They were moved into 10 wartime “Internment Camps” constructed in remote areas between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Mississippi River.

F.D.R. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) 32nd president of the United States (1933-1945) Roosevelt served longer than any other president and held office during two great crises: the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II.

F.D.R. The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 authorized the president to transfer military equipment to victims of aggression. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States declared war on Japan, and on Germany and Italy.

F.D.R. On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt died and Vice President Harry S. Truman became president.