1. Chapter 23 Section 4 World War II Erupts Mr. Riddlebarger
Mobilizing For War
Chapter 23
Section 4
World War II Erupts
Mr. Riddlebarger

2. United States 48 states 135 million people Tremendous industrial power
Key component
American war production vs. Axis Powers
Double that of axis powers

3. Mobilizing the Armed Forces
Pearl Harbor impact
isolationists
Mobilization
ending Great Depression.
George C. Marshall
Office of War Propaganda
It’s your duty!

4. Finding Soldiers The draft 1940 expansion Millions volunteer

5. Women and the Armed Forces
Women and military
WAC, Women’s Army Corp
Full induction later
WAVES
WASPs

6. Mobilizing Industry & Science
Factories are converted
Government spending
New government agencies & regulation
Production
prices
use of nation’s raw materials.

7. Rosie the Riveter Women in industry What women? Pay

8. Labor in World War II Government spending President and labor
Job creation
Laissez faire???
Concentration of wealth
President and labor
strikes
1941: ¾ of military contract wealth was handled by 56 large corporations (Zinn)

9. Mobilizing Science importance of technology. Manhattan Project Germans
atomic bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Germans
outcome

10. African-Americans in military
Hundreds of thousands serve
New barriers broken
1st enlistments in US Marines
1st commissioned officers in US Navy
Discrimination still faced
segregated units
No Medal of Honor recipients.

11. African-Americans in the Workforce
demand for factory workers
new opportunities
lowest paying jobs
FDR order

12. Challenges for Hispanic- Americans
Bracero Program
labor shortages on farms
Tensions is LA
Zoot Suit Riots (1943)
High rate of service and accomplishment in military

14. Zoot Suit Riots
An eyewitness to the attacks, journalist Carey McWilliams, described the scene as follows:
Marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of several thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up every zoot suiter they could find. Pushing its way into the important motion picture theaters, the mob ordered the management to turn on the house lights and then ran up and down the aisles dragging Mexicans out of their seats. Streetcars were halted while Mexicans, and some Filipinos and Negroes, were jerked from their seats, pushed into the streets and beaten with a sadistic frenzy
Carey McWilliams. North From Mexico. Quoted in Richard Griswold del Castillo. The Los Angeles "Zoot Suit Riots" Revisited: Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp

15. Compare these two images from 1943 of a woman war worker
Compare these two images from 1943 of a woman war worker. The one on the right was painted by Norman Rockwell and appeared on the cover of a popular magazine, Saturday Evening Post. J. Howard Miller of the Westinghouse Corporation produced the one on the left.