Imagine you are interviewing someone who lived in the USA during WWII, what would they say if you asked them, “Give me ONE word to describe this time period?”

IF SO… Yes or No? Do you like sugar? Do you like shoes? Do you have a friend or family member that is 18? Are you a woman? Do you eat meat? Are you a minority? Do you have a bicycle? IF SO…

How much… Meat Sugar Coffee Canned/Frozen foods Fuel (how much are you in the car) Shoes Consumer goods (Computers)

If you were alive during WWII, list one word that you associate with this time? RATIONING Read examples

Prices were regulated by the government to prevent inflation. NOTES… Rationed US items Scrap metal and rubber Gasoline, kerosene, other fuels Paper Sugar Meats and canned goods Fats Shoes Typewriters, bikes, cars, appliances, etc. Victory Gardens Food Canning Prices were regulated by the government to prevent inflation.

Factories ran 24/7 producing ships, tanks, jeeps, guns and ammunition. Preparing For War Some would say the Depression ended with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Why? Factories ran 24/7 producing ships, tanks, jeeps, guns and ammunition.

The Draft 1940 – First draft during peacetime Selective Service Act - 21-35 years olds were required to sign up Later more men were needed, ages 18-38

Women African Americans Mexican Americans Took over male factory jobs 300,000 served in the army corps and air force **ROSIE One million served in the armed forces (mostly segregated) The navy would not allow them in combat Dorie Miller Tuskegee Airmen 300,000 served in the military Bracero program and zoot-suit riots

Steve Rogers When skinny Steve Rogers submitted himself for a top-secret US government experiment to create a Super Soldier, he had no idea he would become the Sentinel of Liberty and the embodiment of America’s greatest hopes and ideals. But with the downing of a powerful serum, Rogers was transformed into Captain America. The superhero soon known familiarly as Cap was just what WWII Americans needed.

Cap quickly established himself—along with his sidekick, Bucky—as a tireless crusader in the war against the Axis powers. Fighting the Red Skull and countless other Nazi minions, Cap blazed a Stars and Stripes trail around the world before the war’s end slowed his super pace. He fell into temporary obscurity in the 1950s before being revived from a block of ice in the early 1960s, a man of the 1940s living in strange new times. Joining the super team the Avengers, he became the moral center of the modern Marvel Comics universe of heroes.

Perhaps the most important characteristic of Captain America was that he always strove to represent the aspirations that united America. When the law or the current presidential administration clashed with what he believed America should be, he often defied the government, shed his mantle, or went underground. He was invariably proven right. In 2007 Rogers was assassinated, and his former sidekick, Bucky, took his place as Captain America. As has happened with so many fallen comic book heroes, the original Cap will inevitably return one day to resume his place as a quintessential heroic icon in American pop culture.

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Make sure you get… Give examples of rationing Effects on US economy Draft Women and Minorities Internment

It is 1943, you are seniors in HS… Sit down if you are a boy and would be 18 years old between Sept. – June. Sit down if your mother works. Sit down if you are of German, Italian or Japanese descent How does your classroom look now?

Japanese American Internment Feared Japanese spies Without evidence, Roosevelt issues internment camps – forced relocation and imprisonment This effected 115, 000 people, half were children Some German and Italian Americans were also taken Few Japanese were allowed to fight, and some of those had families in camps

Friday, December 13, 2019