1. Impact of WWII on Americans
Ch. 35 TCI

2. Today you will answer
What opportunities and hardships did Americans face during WWII You will do this by answering a question at the end using evidence and creating a newsreel

3. Raising Money for the War
Office of Price Controls: Set prices for products Recycled everything Grew Victory Gardens

5. Rationing
Limited Distribution of Food, Clothing.

6. War Bonds
Used to raise money for the war

7. GI (government-issue)

8. Japanese-American Internment
After Pearl Harbor, fear of enemy spies working for Japan. Nisei: Japanese born in America

9. Japanese-American Internment
Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Ancestry ordered to go to Internment Camps

10. Japanese-American internment
Internment Camp

11. Japanese American Internment
Korematsu v. US
Refused to go to internment camp (American citizen)
Supreme Court: Court can ignore civil rights at a time of war.

12. Women at War
“Rosie the Riveter” “All day long, Whether rain or shine, She’s making history Working for Victory Rosie the Riveter”

13. Women at War
Women worked at Factories Women’s Army Corps

14. African Americans at War
“Why die for democracy for some foreign country when we can’t get it here?” Double Victory Campaign: Fight Racism at home at abroad. Segregated Troops.

15. African Americans at War
Tuskegee Airmen fought in most dangerous areas Never lost a bomber.

17. Jewish Americans at War
Very little reporting on the Nazi Extermination camps in US. Jews protested to bring awareness

18. Jewish Americans at War
Many served in Military War Refugee Board: Camps for Jewish refugees in Europe.

19. Mexican-Americans at War
Racism at home. Why fight for America? Many joined the Military

20. Mexican-Americans at War
Bracero Program: Immigration of Mexicans to help work on farms. (120,000)

21. Mexican-Americans at War
Mexican American teens (pachucos) started wearing zoot suits
Went against Rationing laws
Seen as act of defiance?

22. Mexican Americans at War
Zoot Suit Riot (June 1943)
Military people roamed the streets beating anyone wearing a Zoot Suit
Police arrested the victims
Media blamed the victims.