1. The Homefront

2. I. Propaganda
Material created to influence the thoughts of others.

3. II. Economic Effects of WWII
War Production Board
Agency that changed the American automobile industry to make tanks, trucks, and aircraft.
Rationing
Regulating consumer use
Limited purchase on: sugar, meat, gasoline, etc.

4. Women in the labor force
%age rose from 30% in 1940 to 38% in
Worked in factories welding metal, building equipment, making bullets and bombs.
350,000 women served in military – W.A.C. and W.A.V.E.S.

5. Women’s Army Corps
Real Life Rosie

6. Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services

7. Paying for the War Taxes paid for 40% of the war War Bonds
Income Tax introduced
War Bonds
Pay ½ face value up front – 10yrs later it is worth face value.
Citizens provided scrap metal and rubber for military use

8. III. Segregation
1941 – Roosevelt issued executive order that banned discrimination in the defense industry.
Unemployment dropped to 1.2% but minorities were often limited in types of jobs available
Armed forces were segregated until 1948 by Harry Truman.
700,000 African Americans served in WWII.
Tuskegee Airman shot down more than 200 enemy planes (Red Tails)

9. IV. Manhattan Project
Albert Einstein sent President Franklin Roosevelt a letter warning of German attempts to build a nuclear bomb.
In early 1940’s the U.S. launches the secret $2 billion project
Centered at Los Alamos, New Mexico
37 other locations across nation
Major location in Oak Ridge, TN
The goal was to develop an atomic bomb

10. V. Oak Ridge, TN
The Manhattan Project built huge facilities at a secret site in Oak Ridge, TN, to test three techniques in developing an atomic bomb
Eventually all three techniques developed at Oak Ridge contributed to producing the ingredients for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

11. K-25
Gaseous Diffusion Process Building

12. X-10
Graphite Reactor Building

13. Y – 12
Electro- Magnetic Separation of Uranium

14. VI. The Atomic Bombs The end of the War
April 30, 1945 Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide in his Berlin bunker.
May 8, 1945 Germany surrenders.
Japan is the only one left to defeat.
1st test of an atomic bomb: July 14, 1945
Cracked windows 75 miles away

15. Early Stage of the “TRINITY” fireball – First nuclear bomb test

17. VII. Facts about the Bombs
Dropped from 30,000 feet
Detonated at 1,900 feet above the center of the two Japanese cities.
78,000 people died in less than 1 second. (Hiroshima)
Over 150,000 Japanese died in the two explosions.
4 square miles of land disappeared.

18. AUG. 6, 1945 – The Enola Gay drops “Little Boy” over Hiroshima.
AUG. 9, 1945 – The Bockscar drops “Fat Man” over Nagasaki.

19. Nagasaki before and after bombing

20. VIII. Surrender
At the White House, President Harry Truman announces the Japanese Surrender. August 14, 1945 (the War is over)

21. IX. Minority Groups Japanese Internment Camps
U.S. government questioned the loyalty of Japanese Americans
100,000 were relocated to camps for safety
300,000 served in the military (most were volunteers)
Apology
In 1988, the U. S. gov. acknowledged that it had acted improperly in the matter of Japanese-American internment and offered each internee compensation of $20,000.

22. African Americans 1 million served in World War II
Assigned to all black units
USS navyman Dorie Miller – first African American to win the Navy Cross (Cuba Gooding Jr.)

23. X. Globalization
A movement to industries being interlocking systems of manufacturing and marketing on an international scale.
Dwight Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander
Military Industrial Complex – the close relationship between the armed forces and the industrial sector of the U.S. economy.
Interstate Highway System – construction of 41k miles of highway roads. Every 5 miles, 1 had to be completely straight for national defense.