WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT World War II ends the Great Depression and creates the framework for the next thirty years of economic prosperity –John Maynard.

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WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT World War II ends the Great Depression and creates the framework for the next thirty years of economic prosperity –John Maynard Keynes: deficit spending (US national debt goes from $43 million in 1940 to $259 million in 1945)—Keynesian Economics Economic policy of war years maintained in postwar era

WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT Economic Mobilization and the South –Hastens the decline of southern agriculture –South becomes both a campground and an arsenal during the war

Andrew Jackson Higgins – New Orleans

Wage and Price Controls Rationing

WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT Women and World War II

Hair Style for Safety

Women in Military Service

WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT African Americans and World War II –An even greater migration More than 1 million blacks leave the South for the North and West (twice the number of migrants during the “Great Migration” during the WWI years)

Double-V Campaign Smith v. Allwright (1944)

A segregated military

Tuskegee Airmen Benjamin Davis

WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT Black Protest –A. Philip Randolph (March on Washington) –Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)

Eleanor Clubs

Zoot-Suit Riots

WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT Birth of Teen Culture –Weakening of family ties and authority of the schools –Prosperity and enhanced job opportunities –Changes in high school –Increase in teen gangs and juvenile delinquency

Forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans (1942) Concerns about National Security

America and the Holocaust Anti-Semitism

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