1. Chapter 14, Section Three In preparation for today’s lesson read - on pages 500 to 501 and page 507 - answering in your notes the following: – [1] To whom did factories turn when their was a labor shortage during WWII? How was this labor need satisfied? – [2] To what does “Blue Points, Red Points” refer? 3/7/16

2. Major Questions to Consider Over Next Few Weeks: (1) How did the role of the U.S. in world affairs change because of its involvement in WWII? (2) How did the U.S. impact the outcome of WWII, leading to Allied victory? (3) Was the decision to drop the atomic bomb by the United States justified?

3. “Rosie the Riveter” Video Summarize ideas Importance? Symbolism? http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/rosie-the-riveter

4. Stations Questions to Consider: – [1] What is important in the content you’re reading and the posters / artwork you see? – [2] How does this information help us answer, “How did the U.S. impact the outcome of WWII, leading to Allied victory?” – [3] What are the messages conveyed in posters / artwork?

5. Economic Prosperity, Rationing, and the War Production Board

7. Women and the Workforce

9. African American Contributions in WWII

10. Major Questions to Consider Over Next Few Weeks: (1) How did the role of the U.S. in world affairs change because of its involvement in WWII? (2) How did the U.S. impact the outcome of WWII, leading to Allied victory? (3) Was the decision to drop the atomic bomb by the United States justified?

11. Changes on the Home Front (1) Women in the workforce (2) Housing crisis (3) Rationing … “Blue Points, Red Points” (4) Victory Gardens (5) Scrap drives

12. Write down the following prompts in notebooks, leaving one line between preparing for a video clip about “America’s Time: 1941 - 1945 Homefront” (9:25 – 33:00) (1) America’s motor city transformed to … (2) Attitudes toward married women working outside the home changed because … (3) Percentage of workers that were women during WWII … (4) Number of planes and tanks created each year … (5) Americans were taught to hate … (6) Executive Order 9066 established … (7) Gold stars in windows meant … 3/8/16

13. Changes on the Home Front (1) Women in the workforce (2) Housing crisis (3) Rationing … “Blue Points, Red Points” (4) Victory Gardens (5) Scrap drives

14. Converting the Economy By 1944, the U.S. is producing 40% of the world’s arms (weapons). Unprecedented government spending – 1939 - $9 billion – 1945 - $100 billion Reconstruction Finance Corporation … – Loans to businesses to convert their production “Tanks replace cars …” Automobile industry produced 1/3 of all military equipment Building “Liberty Ships” … “MTT,” M35

15. Changes on the Home Front War bonds – $185 Billion of total $300 Billion cost for war War stamps

16. War Productions Board - The WPB directed conversion of industries from peacetime work to war needs -Allocated scarce materials -Established priorities in the distribution of raw materials -It rationed such commodities as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, paper, and plastics.

17. Mobilizing for War Selective Service and Training Act (1940) … – Between the ages of 21 to 35 “Segregated Army” … – Segregated training and segregated units

18. African Americans in WWII “Tuskegee Airmen” Famous Units: - 99 th Pursuit Squadron - 332 nd Fighter Group - 761 st Tank Battalion ** Faced Segregation

19. African Americans in American During WWII Continuation of “Great Migration” Pushing for “Double V” Anti-Lynching Legislation

20. Voter Intimidation “It was in the state of Georgia, in 1946, that a young Negro veteran named Maceo Snipes learned that by the Supreme Court ruling he had a right to vote. No Negro had voted in his county since Reconstruction, but Maceo Snipes went down and registered. The following morning he was sitting on his porch and a white man came up and killed him with a shotgun. His funeral was held the next day and in the midst of the funeral oration, Maceo’s mother rose and moved up through the crowd, up to his coffin, where they waited to lower it into the earth. And she asked her second son to come forth. He was 17. And she said to him, ‘Put your hand on this coffin, and swear on the body of your brother than when you get to be 21, you’re going down to the courthouse to do what he did — to vote.’ ” - Henry Wallace - Progressive Party Candidate for President - “Radio Address,” September, 1948

21. Other Minorities in WWII - Japanese-American soldiers served even after “internment” experiences - Native American ** 1/3 adult population served ** Navajo Code Talkers

22. Women in WWII Women’s Army Corp: - Noncombat roles: clerical, supply services, nurses, mechanics, and other positions Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs): -300 pilots made over 12,000 deliveries

23. Unemployment Rates 1928 – 4.2% 1930 – 8.7% 1932 – 23.6% 1934 – 21.7% 1936 – 17% 1938 – 19% 1940 – 14.6% 1942 – 4.7% 1944 – 1.2% 1946 – 3.9% “What does this economic data tell us? Gross Domestic Product -$$ amount everything a nation produces in a year 1928 – $97.4 1929 –$103.6 1930 – $91.2 1932 – $58.7 1934 – $66 1936 – $83.8 1938 – $86.1 1940 – $101.4 1942 – $161.9 1944 – $219.8 1946 – $222.3

24. Why was this economic growth possible? (1) Massive government spending – Federal government budget 1939 - $9 billion 1945 - $100 billion – $323 billion during war years (1941-1945) (2) 19 million new jobs – full employment – U.S. Army grew from 227,000 in 1939 to 16 million soldiers by 1945 – These soldiers taken out of the workforce (3) Limited direct taxation to pay for war (4) Renewed confidence by Americans

25. Write down the following prompts in notebooks, leaving one line between preparing for a video clip about “America’s Time: 1941 - 1945 Homefront” (9:25 – 33:00) (1) America’s motor city transformed to … (2) Attitudes toward married women working outside the home changed because … (3) Percentage of workers that were women during WWII … (4) Number of planes and tanks created each year … (5) Americans were taught to hate … (6) Executive Order 9066 established … (7) Gold stars in windows meant … 3/8/16