1. EQ: How did the war unite America in a common purpose? 4/23
No Homework this Week! Feel free to write schedule in agenda but not required. 
WWII: The Homefront
EQ: How did the war unite America in a common purpose?
4/23

2. Quick Write: Video Clip
What is going on here?
What day did this happen?
What were the effects of this event?

3. Production & Industry kicked into Overdrive.
WWII affected EVERYONE living in America, whether they fought in the war or not.
Production & Industry kicked into Overdrive.
Men enlisted or were drafted.
Women went to work.
All Americans were asked to make sacrifices.
Government launched a massive propaganda campaign.

4. WWII on the Homefront Guided Reading Questions
Page 810
Read the Section (Please do not just skim for answers)
Answer the Questions thoroughly on your paper.
We will discuss and check the answers at the end of class.

5. 1. How did war mobilization end the Great Depression?
Factories ran 24 hours a day making ships, tanks, jeeps, guns, & ammunition
Farmers produced food to send to troops in Europe

6. 2. What did the War Production Board do?
Oversaw the conversion of factories to war production
1942: WPB banned production of cars!

8. 3. How did Congress begin to prepare for war in 1940?
Passed the Selective Training & Service Act
1st Peacetime Draft
21-35 (later 18-38)
16 million Americans served in WWII

11. 4. How did the government pay for the war?
Raised taxes
Sold War Bonds

13. 5. How did American citizens help with the war effort?
Collected scrap metal
Had to follow rations of gas, rubber, shoes, and certain foods
“Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without!”

16. 6. How did NC women help with war production?
Built submarine chasers, minesweepers, & merchant ships
Worked in factories making ammunition, bomb clusters, radar components and rockets

18. 7. In what 3 ways did women serve in the military?
Women’s Auxiliary Corps (WAC)
Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Nurses

20. 8. How did life remain the same for African-Americans & Mexican-Americans?
Faced discrimination and received lower pay
Even though new job opportunities were open to them

21. 9. Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
1st Black Pilots
Trained at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama
Under Benjamin O. Davis, who became the first black general

22. Montford Point Opened in 1942 Trained the first black Marines
They did serve in WWII

23. 10. Describe the process of internment that Japanese Americans faced.
Executive Order 9066
Evacuated from their homes & relocated to Internment camps

24. 11. Why were Japanese Americans interned?
Feared that they were secret agents for Japan & would help prepare Japan for an invasion of California

26. 12. What did the Nisei lose when being interned?
Jobs
Homes
Belongings
Dignity

27. Tomorrow: We’ll continue looking at the American Homefront

28. American Homefront Jigsaw Activity
Each group has an article describing the war experience for different people in the U.S.
Read the Article; taking important notes.
Create a Poster giving the main points of your Article.
You will be sharing your poster in a Gallery Walk.