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1 World War II The Homefront

2 Key Terms War bonds Baby boomers Fair Deal G.I. Bill
Korematsu v. United States, 1944 Levittown Northern Migration Middle class Rosie the Riveter Selective Service Act AFL-CIO Taft-Hartley Act WACS War Production Board Japanese American Internment Rationing

3 The Homefront “Home” – United States “Front” – Line of battle
How is the war being waged in the U.S.? Total War – all sectors of society are mobilized for war

4 Restrictions

5 Selective Service Act, 1940 The Draft!!!

6 War Production Board Shift away from laissez faire Gov’t Regulation
Production of goods Consumption of resources… Gasoline Heating oil Metals Rubber Plastics

7 Office of Price Administration
Price controls Rent controls

8 Rationing

9 Rationing

10 Victory Gardens

11 War Bonds

12 Income Tax

13 Media Censorship

14 Propaganda & Stereotypes

15 Taft-Hartley Act Anti-union law Fear of communism… Cold War coming

16 A.F.L.-C.I.O. A.F. of L. (1886) Breakaway – C.I.O. (1938)
Reunited into AFL-CIO (1955) Refrained from strikes during the war

17 Internment Camps

18 Korematsu v. U.S. Executive Order 9066 Wartime powers of government
Civil rights

19 Black Soldiers Tuskegee Airmen Buffalo Soldiers

20 Opportunities

21 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943
1st Amendment Citizens cannot be forced to pledge allegiance to the flag

22 War Industry

23 National War Labor Board
Government arbitration… …no interruptions in production

24 Rosie the Riveter

25 W.A.C.S. Womens’ Army Corps

26 Navajo Code Talkers

27 Nisei Regiments

28 Great Migration

29 “Double V” Campaign

30 A. Philip Randolph March on Washington Movement

31 Executive Order 8802 “Fair Employment”
No racial discrimination in defense industry

32 Mexican-American Soldiers
Served in integrated units

33 Bracero Program Temporary Mexican agricultural laborers

34 G.I. Bill Passed in 1944 Federal aid to veterans Education Housing
Unemployment “Servicemen’s Readjustment Act”

35 Fair Deal Harry Truman Extension of New Deal Republican Resistance
National health insurance Republican Resistance

36 Levittown, PA William J. Levitt Suburbia

37 Levittown, PA Prefabricated Homes

38 “Little Boxes” Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.

39 “Little Boxes” And the people in the houses All went to the university Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same And there's doctors and lawyers And business executives And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. -Malvina Reynolds

40 Middle Class

41 Middle Class

42 Births in the United States
Baby Boom Births in the United States

43 Boomer Generation

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