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1 World War II The Homefront Created by Mr. Johnson

2 Selective Service Act, 1940 The Draft!!!

3 War Production Board Shift away from laissez faire Gov’t Regulation
Production of goods Consumption of resources… Gasoline Heating oil Metals Rubber Plastics

4 Office of Price Administration
Price controls Rent controls

5 Rationing

6 Rationing

7 Victory Gardens

8 War Bonds

9 Income Tax

10 Media Censorship

11 Propaganda & Stereotypes

12 Taft-Hartley Act Anti-union law Fear of communism… Cold War coming

13 A.F.L.-C.I.O. A.F. of L. (1886) Breakaway – C.I.O. (1938)
Reunited into AFL-CIO (1955) Refrained from strikes during the war

14 Internment Camps

15 Korematsu v. U.S. Executive Order 9066 Wartime powers of government
Civil rights

16 Black Soldiers Tuskegee Airmen Buffalo Soldiers

17 Opportunities

18 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943
1st Amendment Citizens cannot be forced to pledge allegiance to the flag

19 War Industry

20 National War Labor Board
Government arbitration… …no interruptions in production

21 Rosie the Riveter

22 W.A.C.S. Womens’ Army Corps

23 Navajo Code Talkers

24 Great Migration

25 “Double V” Campaign

26 A. Philip Randolph March on Washington Movement

27 Executive Order 8802 “Fair Employment”
No racial discrimination in defense industry

28 Mexican-American Soldiers
Served in integrated units

29 Bracero Program Temporary Mexican agricultural laborers

30 G.I. Bill Passed in 1944 Federal aid to veterans Education Housing
Unemployment “Servicemen’s Readjustment Act”

31 Fair Deal Harry Truman Extension of New Deal Republican Resistance
National health insurance Republican Resistance

32 Levittown, PA William J. Levitt Suburbia

33 Levittown, PA Prefabricated Homes

34 “Little Boxes” Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.

35 Middle Class

36 Middle Class

37 Births in the United States
Baby Boom Births in the United States

38 Boomer Generation

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