1.  ADMIT SLIP  ATTENDANCE  PRAYER  WORLD WAR 2 BEGINS  MOBILIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES  DOMETIC POLICIES  THE JAPANESE

2. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. Lord, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, and To be loved as to love With all my heart. Amen

3. Race, Rationing, and Gender

4. Japan boasts that America is “trembling in her shoes.” The United States is anything but.

5. 5 million enlist https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=xgQm3crZxkI https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=xgQm3crZxkI Selective Service (Draft) provides another 10 million Women’s Auxillary Army Corps (WAAC) formed

6. “There are innumerable duties now being performed by soldiers that can be done better by women.” – George C. Marshall. Opposed by some in Congress. Women given full U.S. Army benefits by 1943. 350,000 women joined!

8. Race was still a major issue during the War, as segregation and racism flourished.

9. 300,000 served. 1/10 th population of LA 1/5 th of the city’s casualties

10. “We would not need the Selective Service, if all volunteered like Indians.” “Wind Talkers” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQH hbhtpJ3M Most Iconic: Ira Hayes

11. 1,000,000 joined. Fighting for freedoms they didn’t have in the United States. “Just carve on my tombstone, ‘Here lies a black man, killed fighting a yellow man, for the protection of a white man.’”

12. The Army was even segregated, and due to the amount of African Americans wanting to serve, hoping that they would be viewed as equals, the 99 th Pursuit Squadron was created.

13. Mexican-Americans and Native Americans fought next to their white counterparts. Japanese and African Americans fought in segregated units. Does that represent the values America was fighting for?

15. Automobile plants now made tanks and planes. Workers could build a ship in 4 days.

16. 18 million in the labor industry. 6+ million were women.

17. Many companies refused to hire African Americans. A. Philip Randolph took on FDR, and won. FDR issued executive order that provided for full employment opportunities within the defense industries.

19. The Federal Government took complete control of the U.S. Economy Implemented economic restrictions.

20. Raised nearly all corporate taxes, and required nearly all Americans to pay income tax. Froze prices, wages, rents. Caused rationing of foods. Rationed fuel, metals, plastics, oil.

21. Many resources and good became rationed in order to fuel the war effort. Citizens issued rationing booklets. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9W2jkgs-ugs

22. American citizens weren’t the only ones that faced the consequences of rationing. The American Government contributed to rationing as well.

23. The United States had to borrow money to fund the war. A lot of this money came from United States citizens. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=92hJjW5n6ZQ

24. Realizing the amount of service members joining for the war, the government created the GI Bill to help veterans reintegrate into society upon their return from the war.

25. Lives of the Japanese Americans

26. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans were rounded up and placed in internment camps. Many viewed these internment camps as American versions of concentration camps.

27. Is this different than the sign we saw regarding the Holocaust earlier?

29. How would rationing affect your daily life back then? How would you feel about rationing implemented for the current War on Terror?

30. How did patriotism or nationalism contribute to the domestic policies of rationing and racial disparity?

31. Before you leave class, write a letter to FDR putting yourself in the shoes of an African American or Japanese American. How would you feel being asked to fight for freedoms you did not have? Segregated military units? How would you react to being sent to an Internment Camp?