1. Write down the following prompts in notebooks, leaving one line between preparing for a video clip about “America’s Time: Homefront” (8:50 – 30:00)
(1) America’s motor city transformed to …
(2) Attitudes toward married women working outside the home changed because …
(3) Fraction of workers that were women during WWII …
(4) Americans worked together …
(5) Americans were taught to hate …
(6) Executive Order 9066 established …
(7) Gold stars in windows meant …

2. War Productions Board …
Established priorities in the distribution of raw materials
Converts economy, peacetime to war time

3. Rationing Booklets

4. 1930’s Women’s Swimwear
1940’s Women’s Swimwear

5. Converting the Economy
Army-Navy Munitions Board …
Developed contracts w/ American companies
“Tanks replace cars …”
“MTT,” M35

6. Changes on the Home Front
(1) Housing crisis …
(2) Victory Gardens …
(3) Scrap drives …

7. Changes on the Home Front
War bonds
$185 Billion of total $300 Billion cost for war
War stamps

8. Mobilizing for War Selective Service and Training Act (1940) …
Between the ages of 21 to 35
- Native American soldiers
- 1/3 adult population served
- Navajo Code Talkers
- Japanese-American soldiers served even after “internment” experiences

9. Write down the following prompts in notebooks, leaving one line between preparing for a video clip about “America’s Time: Homefront” (9:06 – 30:00)
(1) America’s motor city transformed to …
(2) Attitudes toward married women working outside the home changed because …
(3) Fraction of workers that were women during WWII …
(4) Americans worked together …
(5) Americans were taught to hate …
(6) Executive Order 9066 established …
(7) Gold stars in windows meant …

10. Why did the United States “unite” so well behind a common goal in WWII?

11. “What does this economic data tell us?
Unemployment Rates
Gross Domestic Product
$$ amount everything a nation
produces in a year
1928 – 4.2%
1930 – 8.7%
1932 – 23.6%
1934 – 21.7%
1936 – 17%
1938 – 19%
1940 – 14.6%
1942 – 4.7%
1944 – 1.2%
1946 – 3.9%
1928 – $97.4
1929 – $103.6
1930 – $91.2
1932 – $58.7
1934 – $66
1936 – $83.8
1938 – $86.1
1940 – $101.4
1942 – $161.9
1944 – $219.8
1946 – $222.3
“What does this economic data tell us?

12. Why was this economic growth possible?
(1) Massive government spending
Federal government budget
$9 billion
$100 billion
$323 billion during war years ( )
(2) 19 million new jobs – full employment
U.S. Army grew from 227,000 in 1939 to 16 million soldiers by 1945
These soldiers taken out of the workforce
(3) Limited direct taxation to pay for war
(4) Renewed confidence by Americans