1. SWBAT: Describe the experience of Americans on the home front during WWII
Do Now:
a) Analyze the posters and answer the questions on your worksheet.

3. Daily Life in Wartime America Wages and Price Controls
FDR was worried that mobilizing the economy might result in inflation. Wages and prices began to rise quickly during the war because of the demand for workers and raw materials. To stabilize this, Roosevelt set up the agencies to regulate wages and prices of products. They managed to keep inflation under control.

4. What was Rationing?
Rationing, started by the OPA, was a system that provided everyone with the same amount of scarce goods. The system was designed to keep prices low and to make sure people had what they needed.
Some things were scarce because they were needed to supply the military - gas, oil, meat, metal and other food, for example. Some things were scarce because they normally were imported from countries with whom we were at war with or because they had to be brought in by a ship from a foreign country. Sugar and coffee were very scarce. They didn't make Coca-Cola during the war because sugar was so scarce.

5. Why would people support the idea of rations?
But rationing made sure no one went hungry. Everyone was given a ration book with a number of stamps in it. Grocers and other business people would post what your ration stamps could buy that week. The items at the store still cost money, but you couldn’t even buy the item without a ration stamp.

6. Victory Gardens
People were encouraged by the government to plant Victory Gardens and grow their own vegetables to supplement the foods they could buy with their ration stamps.
For Americans at home, living without was not that difficult because many people remembered the Depression. By comparison, things were not that bad. Most people were glad to have some way to help and take an active part in the war.

7. Paying for the War
The war cost the United States more than $300 billion. In order to raise money, the government raised taxes however that only covered less than half of the costs. The government again issued bonds to raise money for the rest of the cost (Just as they did during WWI). When Americans bought bonds they were loaning money to the federal government and the government promised that the bonds could be redeemed at a future date for the price of the bond plus interest.

9. Women and the War Effort
When the United States entered the Second World War, "Rosie the Riveter" became the symbol for women workers in the American defense industries.

10. African-Americans

11. Tuskegee Airmen

12. Role of African Americans
Home
Migrated to Northern cities to improve their economic status
Discriminated in terms of salary

13. Japanese Internment
About 110,000 Japanese Americans forced to sell homes and businesses

14. Nisei- Japanese Americans
Viewed as a threat
FDR orders imprisonment of Japanese Americans – Executive Order 9066

15. Relocation:

16. Relocation Camps: Crowded barracks surrounded by barbed wire

18. Korematsu V. U.S. 1944
BACKGROUND
Forced Relocation
No acts of Japanese sabotage or treason were identified
Thousands of Japanese fought for the U.S.

19. Korematsu V. U.S. 1944
14th Amendment
“equal protection”
ISSUES
Executive Power
5th Amendment
“life, liberty and property”

20. Korematsu V. U.S. 1944
DECISION
Right to deprive an entire race of the 5th and 14th Amendment was in the interest of National Security

21. Korematsu V. U.S. 1944
Ronald Reagan
a) ,000 survivors received $20,000 tax free

22. Sum It Up
Describe what life was like for…
Women
African-Americans
Japanese-Americans