1. US History
World War II

2. Skills Work - WWII
You will explain a change or continuity that took place during the war compared to the era before the war for each of the following topics:
Economics
Women
African Americans
Japanese Americans

3. WWII Economy War Mobilization Industrial Expansion Economic Impact (2)
War Bonds
Rationing (2)

4. War Mobilization
“The Arsenal for Democracy” War Production Board – government takes over the US economy to produce war goods "The most important things in this war are machines," said Joe Stalin, "and the United States is a country of machines."

5. US Industrial Achievements
Production Numbers:
299,293 aircraft (Japan 70,000)
1,556 naval vessels
5,777 merchant ships
634,569 jeeps
88,410 tanks (Germany, 44,000)
6.5 million rifles
2,383,311 trucks
40 billion bullets.

6. Economic Impact of the WWII
Production Results:
GNP increased from 99.7 Billion in 1940 to 211 Billion in 1945.
Corporate profits went from $6.4 billion in 1940 to $11 billion in 1944.
Farmers prices rose 50%.
Due partly to overtime, average worker earnings rose 65%, as the war provided jobs for 3.2 million new job seekers and 7.3 million others (half of them women) who wouldn't have worked otherwise
By January, 1944, America had a weapons stockpile that would give the US a 3-to-1 advantage over the enemy, and supply 60% of all allied munitions.

7. Economic Impact of the WWII

8. War Bonds

9. Rationing

10. Rationing

11. Domestic Impact of WWII
Women
African Americans
Japanese Americans
Mexican Immigrants

12. Women in WWII Job opportunities Military service Rosie the Riveter
Pay inequity
Return home at the end of the war
Military service

13. African Americans in WWII (SUS)
Fought in segregated units
Double V Campaign
Greater job opportunities

14. Japanese Americans in WWII
Anti – Japanese Hysteria
Video 12:05 to 16:40
Korematsu v. US (1944)
Apology and reparations (1988)

15. Impact of the War on Mexican Immigrants
Background:
Mexican immigration increased in the early 1900s once Chinese and Japanese immigrants were no longer allowed in America
Continues into the 1920s with a demand for cheap labor, but ends with mass deportations in the 1930s during the Great Depression (including many US citizens)
Bracero Program:
With the demand for cheap labor during WWII, the US and Mexico agreed to “import” temporary Mexican workers (roughly 70,000 a year during WWII)
Braceros were under strict control of the contractors
Zoot Suit Riots (1943)

16. Korematsu v. US (1944) Background: Legal Question(s): Legal Decision:
FDR had ordered all Japanese on the west coast to be moved to internment camps.
Legal Question(s):
Did the federal government deny due process to American citizens of Japanese descent ?
Legal Decision:
No (6-3)
Impact:
During times of crisis, constitutional rights are not absolute.

17. Tuskegee Airmen

18. Pittsburgh Courier March 28, 1942
. . . This is not a campaign waged by colored citizens alone; it is a campaign waged by all citizens, regardless of color.
Every thoughtful American realizes that the independence of this nation depends upon victory for our armies against the forces of totalitarianism abroad on a dozen fronts.
It is widely understood that at home democracy may perish unless every one of us is unusually vigilant.
If we are to have no democracy at home, it does not make a great deal of difference what happens abroad.
Victory for democracy abroad means beating the armies of Hitler, Mussolini, and The Mikado.
Victory for democracy at home means beating disfranchisement, racial pollution laws, residential segregation, economic discrimination based on color, jim-crowism, social and educational inequalities, and all efforts to curtail or abolish the safeguards of the Bill of Rights.
A Double V pin indicates allegiance to these high ideals for which great men have fought and died through the centuries that we might have a measure of freedom today

19. Rosie the Riveter

20. Women in the Service

21. Anti-Japanese Hysteria