1. Double V
Zoot Suits
War on the Home Front

2. Mobilizing for Defense
Selective Service Act: drafted 10 million men
War industries exploded
6 million women
Bracero Program: import Mexican workers to fill agricultural labor shortage
Rationing of food and gas

3. Double V
Campaign for Victory against Germany/Japan AND at home against Racism

4. Zoot Suits
Zoot Suits: style adopted by Mexican-American youth as a symbol of rebellion against tradition
Seen as flashy and even un-American

5. Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial 1942
Los Angeles police detained 600 Mexican-American teenagers after finding one teenager dead.
22 teens found guilty (all released years later)

6. Zoot Suit Riots May and June 1943 in Los Angeles
Thousands of servicemen stationed in LA participated in the attacks
Targeted with beatings and racial slurs and stripped of their Zoot suits
500 Mexican Americans arrested and 0 servicemen

7. Japanese Aggression and Internment Camps

8. “A day which will live in infamy”
“A dagger aimed at America’s heart” –Hideki Tojo
2,403 Americans killed and 1,178 wounded
Damaged 21 ships

9. Japanese-American War Contributions
33,000 Joined the war
Thousands volunteered as spies and interpreters

10. POW Treatment/Bataan March
After Japanese took the Philippines
POW’s “disgracefully” surrendered
65 miles March to camps
Beheading
Starvation

11. Executive Order 9066 Issued by FDR in 1942
Response to aggressive anti-Japanese sentiment
Removal and Internment of Japanese Americans (Nisei)

13. The War in the Pacific and the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
The Manhattan Project
“Fat Man” and “Little Boy”
The War in the Pacific and the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb

14. Allies Strike Back Doolittle’s Raid: 16 bombers bomb Tokyo
Does little damage but raises morale

15. The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway June 1942: Allies intercepted news of an attack on Midway, a key airfield.
322 Japanese planes bombed before they took off
Began island hopping campaign

16. Iwo Jima Crucial Base to reach Japan
21,000 Japanese entrenched: only 200 survived

17. Okinawa 1,000 Kamikaze attacks damaged over 300 ships
110,000 Japanese & 7,600 Americans
Now Americans feared a ground war in Japan!

18. The Manhattan Project
Development of the atomic bomb led by J. Robert Oppenheimer
600,000 workers but few knew its purpose
Truman unaware of existence until elected

19. Truman’s Decision
Less than 10 days after test he warned the Japanese of “prompt and utter destruction”

20. Opinions on the Atomic Bomb
“I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt that it should be used”
-Harry Truman
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”
J. Robert Oppenheimer

21. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6
B-29 Enola Gay dropped Little Boy over Hiroshima
Plutonium
August 9 Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki
Uranium