1. America’s Home Front WWII
“But there is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States - every man, woman, and child - is in action That front is right here at home ,in our daily lives.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1942
Definitions:
Home Front: The civilian population or the civilian activities of a country at war.
Bond: a certificate promising payment by a certain date with interest.
Ration: to control the amount one can use.

2. Peacetime Draft 1940, 1st peace time draft passed Ages 21-35
Most soldiers not needed until invasion of Europe in 1944
16 million total drafted

3. Lend Lease Act

4. End of The Depression
Unemployment rate dropped (1940: 8 million, 1943: virtually unheard of)
War-time production created millions of jobs
Companies hired more people & set longer working hours.
Jobs opened due to the draft as well

6. Women In The Workforce Women replaced men who left for war
“Rosie the Riveter” became symbol
Significant change in role of women in society
Types of jobs: nurses, factories, government, etc

7. Minorities Discrimination in workplace
Movement led by A. Phillip Randolph
FDR issued Presidential Order 8806, “Fair Employment Practices Committee” for hiring procedures

8. Rationing 1942, rationing system begins
Citizens allowed only portions of certain items
Civilians issued ration coupons to purchase certain items
Ex: -typewriters, gasoline, coffee, nylons, shoes, meat, canned foods, etc…

10. Japanese Internment Camps
Executive Order 9066: the internment or imprisonment of Japanese Americans into camps. In February 1942 politicians and army officials urged Roosevelt to sign the order due to post Pearl Harbor hysteria .

11. Japanese Internment Camps
Relocation:
-War Relocation Authority
-remove Japanese citizens from California, Oregon, and Washington
-relocate anyone with as little as 1/16th Japanese ancestry
-given 10 days to sell property and take whatever they could carry
10 total relocation camps in the West
120,000+ individuals relocated

12. Internment Camps
Fort Minor:

13. Patriotic Duty Propaganda used:
-Advertisements (billboards, posters, etc…), magazine stories, films, and radio programs.

15. War Bonds and Recycling
Donating money to the war effort
Repaid later with interest
Advertised by celebrities and soldiers
Conserving and Recycling:
Victory Gardens: save on foods needed on the fronts

16. War Bond Sales