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1 World War II: The American Home Front
SHUT UP PRODUCE SACRIFICE & HATE World War II: The American Home Front

2 USHC 7.2 Evaluate the impact of war mobilization on the home front, including consumer sacrifices, the role of women and minorities in the workforce, and limits on individual rights that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans.

3 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941

4 The Situation: 1941 The Allies The Axis Neutral WAR WAR WAR Occupied

5 TOTAL War

6 This Means YOU

7 Especially you ladies…
So… SHUT YOUR MOUTH American women contributed to the war effort by working in munitions factories. Especially you ladies…

8 And YOUR EARS American women contributed to the war effort by working in munitions factories.

9 And really… JUST DON’T American women contributed to the war effort by working in munitions factories.

10 THE WAR ECONOMY Government Regulation of: Production Pricing Rationing

11 War Production Board Peacetime industries converted to war production

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14 Source: http://fortmissoulamuseum.org/WWII/detail.php?id=402

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16 Symbolic of Female Munitions Workers
ROSIE the Riveter Symbolic of Female Munitions Workers

17 Riveting!

18 FDR’s Executive Order 8802 prohibited racial discrimination in the defense production industry.

19 Office of Price Administration
Government-controlled Price Ceilings

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21 Patriotic DUTY

22 RATIONING

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26 Ration Stamps

27 Ration Stamps

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31 Office of War Mobilization
Coordinated all government war-related agencies James F. Byrnes (SC) James F. Byrnes Room (Clemson University) “Assistant President”

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35 Tokio Kid Douglas Aircraft Company (Government Contractor)

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38 REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

39 For the kids! LINK Still from You’re A Sap, Mr. Jap (1942)

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42 Japanese-American Internment

43 Internment Camps Former horse stalls converted for temporary occupation by Japanese American internees at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942 (Wikipedia)

44 Korematsu v. United States
Fred Korematsu 6-3 Internment of Japanese-Americans DOES NOT violate the Constitution.

45 Korematsu v. United States
Justice Hugo Black, a former Klan member, delivered the opinion of the Court. FAIL

46 President Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Better Late Than Never REPARATIONS President Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988

47 In a Nutshell… SHUT UP PRODUCE SACRIFICE HATE Photo by ekurvine

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