1. Japanese Internment Response to Pearl Harbor
– Within 48 hours the FBI started rounding up suspected Japanese Agents
Japanese ordered to report for possible relocation
– Mainly west coast
– Given 1 week to register, pack, and sell or rent property
– Limited what families could bring

2. Japanese Internment
Japanese Internment camps built in remote areas around the country
– (2 in Utah)
Limited comforts
Great deal of tension at Home

3. At Home Most every home impacted Quick weddings Buying war bonds
Families would hang stars in the windows
– Gold Star Mothers
– Many loose multiple family members
» Sullivans, Borgstroms
Those left home had to sacrifice

4. Rationing Staples, gas, metals needed for the war
Rationing starts 1943
– Families issued ration books
Victory Gardens feed those at home
– Provide 40% of vegetables consumed at home
Those at home support by recycling
– Metal, rubber, nylon
All buy War Bonds
Hollywood shines

5. Industry America’s industrial base had to retool
– 1942 Auto production stopped
– From US companies produced 75k planes
» In 1942 FDR asked for 60k planes
– Liberty Ships (produced in 4½ days)
Era of industrial cooperation
– B-17 made by several companies
With men at war we needed a workforce
– Provided great opportunity for women and minorities

6. Women during War
Government reclassified 55% of jobs to allow women to work
– By 1943 every single woman employed
» Rosie the Riveter
When single women fully employed, married women join force
– Companies recognize burden, provide many services (child care, shopping, food services)

7. Women During the War Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
– Led by Jackie Cochran
– Women test and transport planes from factory to the airbases
» Free up men for the front
Nursing Corps
– Primary military role

8. Other Issues 1941 introduction of Penicillin – Dr Alexander Fleming
– Designed to reduce infection from war wounds
– Revolutionized medicine
Civil Air Patrol (CAP)
– Formed Dec 1941
– Duties to patrol coast/ search and rescue for downed aircraft
– 18 months of patrol 24 mil miles, spotted 173 UBoats, located 363 survivors of ship wrecks or air crashes

9. After Effects Women taste independence – Many desire to stay on job
Baby Boom
– Impact still felt today
Housing Boom
– Tract housing (small 1 level ranch)
– Architecture becomes simple
– VA Loans= Soldiers buy homes
GI Bill = Soldiers go to college