1. American Home Front

2. Mobilization for War

3. men into Armed Forces + factories to war production = full employment & end of Depression

4. Average family income 19381942 DC$2227$5316 NYC$2760$4044

5. Union membership increases by over 20% Government gets some concessions: Limit on wartime wage increases No strike pledge – not followed by everyone

6. 1941 – 1945 US spent $321 billion More than the budgets for the last 150 years combined

7. Raised $100 billion in bonds New tax system: Tax Revenue Act of 1942 Starts withholding

8. National debt: $49 billion in 1941 $259 billion in 1945

9. Fear of inflation causes government to create the Office of Price Administration or OPA Able to keep inflation under control Not wildly popular due to role in rationing

10. War Production Board Supervises conversion to war production Auto makers trucks, planes, tanks Shirt makers uniforms, parachutes Refrigerator ammunition

12. Lansing Oldsmobile Plant

13. Henry Kaiser uses pre-fab to cut time to make ‘Liberty Ships’ 240 days to 40

15. Willow Run

16. 1941 6,000,000 industrial workers 1944 18,000,000 industrial workers

17. Where to get workers? Native Americans Hispanic ~ 300,000 Women

18. African Americans –height of the Great Migration, the shift to Northern cities 7 million from 1910-1970

19. 6,000,000 women work in industry Get 60% the pay of men

20. Rosie the Riveter

24. Armed Forces 15 million serve 10 million drafted

25. Includes: 900,000 African Americans 500,000 Hispanics 25,000 Native Americans 300,000 women

26. Zoot Suit Riots June 1943

28. Blacks mostly menial labor Tuskegge Airmen Experiment to show Blacks “racially deficient” and can not fly

30. Graduate 926 fighter pilots Over 200 missions 66 killed 33 captured Escorted Bombers lost: 0

31. Had to fly 100 missions to be rotated out instead of 50 missions for white pilots

32. Relocation of Japanese-Americans Concerns on West Coast about Japanese-Americans Attorney General Earl Warren & Governor Olsen Olsen pass law to dismiss J-A from gov. jobs & right to practice Medicine and law

33. February 1942 War Relocation Authority Executive Order 9066 110,000 rounded up, given 48 hours to sell homes and businesses 2/3 of those taken are born in the US

38. Korematsu v. US 1944 6 to 3 Relocation is constitutional

39. 442 nd Regiment Most decorated unit in ETO >9000 Purple Hearts 7 Presidential unit Citations 53 Distinguished Service Crosses 19 CMH

45. Waiting in line for rationed goods

47. Rationing A stamp for gas – 3 gallons per week 2 pair of shoes per year

48. Victory Gardens Over 20 million around the country 1/3 of fresh vegetables come from Victory Gardens

62. Who goes to war?

69. PT Boat

74. War and the Movies

75. Fighting Seabees

76. They Were Expendable

77. Guadalcanal Diary

79. Veronica Lake

80. Sahara

81. Mrs. Miniver

84. Destination Tokyo

85. Dewey Roosevel t Election of 1944

86. Thomas DeweyFDR

87. Fala

88. Election issue: Economy not war Unspoken issue: FDR’s health

89. FDR forced by party to dump VP Henry Wallace and pick Harry S. Truman

90. FDR 432 53.5% Dewey 99 46%

91. April 12, 1945 FDR has a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia while sitting for a portrait. Lucy Mercer Rutherford is with him