1. The Home Front in America

2. America First Movement
Atlantic Charter 1941
Roosevelt & Churchill ‘s war aims
Japan's role in SE Asia (allied w/ Germany and Italy)
8 common principles for post-war world
Most impt = restore self-gov'ts of occupied countries
Public affirmation of Allies against Axis
America First Movement
Anti-war and anti-aid to G.B. (isolationism)
Charles Lindbergh – speeches opposed to Lend-Lease
Support waned post-Pearl Harbor (Dec 1941)

3. Lend-Lease Program Jan 10, 1941 FDR
Cash-strapped Brits needed airplanes, tanks, ships Give aid to countries to secure US - To be paid back Prepare for growing threat of Japan
Supply USSR with arms - draw Hitler’s resources away from W. Europe - bargaining chip in post-war diplomatic relations
By end of the war US had given more than $50 billion in support to over 35 place

4. US Mobilizes for War Desegregation of Defense Industries 1941 (Truman)
Up military production
Seg. in armed forces continued until 1948
Rosie the Riveter
Gov't campaign to recruit women

5. Rationing War bonds Pearl Harbor → consumer goods, military production
Books/tokens
War bonds
To fund $3 bill war effort ($4 trill today)
Buy $25 for $18 – get diff in 10 years
Kids
Rationed Items
Tires Rubber from Asia limit
Cars
Bicycles
Gasoline
Fuel Oil & Kerosene A vs B cars
Solid Fuels
Stove
Rubber Footwear
Shoes
Sugar
Coffee
Processed Foods
Meats, canned fish
Cheese, canned milk, fats
Typewriters

6. Homefront Propaganda Poster
Perspective - of one of the countries below. US, Japanese, German, USSR, British Topic – Military Recruitment, War Bonds, Women in the War, Rationing, or Reasons to Fight

7. Pearl Harbor Draws US into the War
8 a.m. Dec. 7, 1941 – Honolulu, Hawaii Japanese fighter planes attack naval base 2 hours Destroy 20 naval vessels & 200 airplanes 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died Dec 8 - President FDR and Congress declare war on Japan Dec 11 - Japanese allies Germany and Italy declare war on US