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

3. Changes on the Home Front
Executive Order 9066

4. 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

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

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

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

8. Stations [1] Answer questions at each station
[2] Generate questions thinking, “What do I want to learn more about?”

9. Changes on the Home Front
Exit Slip:
What is the “most important change” on the American home front during WWII and “why?”

10. Women and the Workforce
Contributions to war effort …
Struggles women faced …
Propaganda switches …

12. Women in WWII - Women’s Army Corp:
- Noncombat roles: clerical, supply services, nurses, mechanics, and other positions
Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs):

13. African American Contributions in WWII

14. African Americans in American During WWII
Contributions to war effort …
Pushing for “Double V” …
Segregated
military …
“Tuskegee Airmen”

15. Economic Prosperity, Rationing, and the War Production Board

16. Rationing Booklets

17. 1930’s Women’s Swimwear
1940’s Women’s Swimwear

18. Changes on the Home Front
Exit Slip:
What is the “most important change” on the American home front during WWII and “why?”

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

20. War Productions Board … Rationing program …
Red stamps …
Blue stamps …
Stabilization Act of 1942 …
Govt. stabilization
prices, wages, and
salaries at 1942 levels
Insurance and
pensions exempted

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

22. “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?

23. 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