DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR? Factories are switching production of cars to TANKS and PLANES Clothing factories are switching production of clothes to UNIFOFMS and PARACHUTES Government is selling WAR BONDS People are RATIONING food and resources
There were 9 main rationed commodities groups: Tires (beginning 1/5/42) Automobiles (beginning 2/25/42) Sugar (beginning 5/5/42) Gasoline (beginning 7/22/42) Fuel/oil (beginning 3/14/43) Coffee (no beginning date given, ending 7/29/43) Shoes (beginning 2/9/43) Processed foods (beginning 3/1/43) Meats and fats (beginning 3/29/43)
Women in the workforce Women in the military
The Tuskegee Airmen
Japanese Internment Camp
CLASS DISCUSSION How did WW2 change the role of woman? African-Americans? Japanese-Americans? How did rationing change the way people lived day to day?