1. Life on the WWII Home Front

2. I: Social Groups on the Home Front

3. A. Women in the War Many believed women should not leave the home
Government hired 4 million women for clerical jobs
Male labor shortages got women factory jobs
Rosie the Riveter- symbol of female labor

4. B. African-Americans
African-Americans were not hired for factory work, despite labor shortages
A. Phillip Randolph, head of the Sleeping Car Porters, demanded fairer treatment
FDR issued Exec. Order , banning discrimination in employment
Created Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce

5. C. Mexican-Americans
To fight labor shortage in the Southwest, government created the Bracero Program in 1942
Bracero Program brought over 200,000 Mexicans to help with harvest

6. D. Wartime Migration
Labor shortages forced people to move to find the jobs
A bunch of jobs in the south and in southern California created the Sun Belt
Houses in short supply, government spent $1.2 billion to build public housing

7. E. Home Front Racism
African-Americans migrating for war jobs caused racial clashes
Zoot suits, large oversized suits which violated conservation, were adopted by Mexican- American teenagers
Soldiers rioted against zoot suit wearers, the outfit was banned

8. II: Life on the Home Front

9. A. The Economy FDR feared inflation
Created Office of Price Administration and Office of Economic Stabilization to regulate prices
War Labor Board worked to prevent striking

10. B. Conservation The OPA rationed, households limited to ration books
Victory gardens were planted to increase the food supply
Metal, certain fats, were donated to the war effort

11. C. Paying for the War
Raised taxes, sold war bonds, which were a donation to the war for a promised profit years later
$150 billion worth of bonds were sold