WWII Homefront

WWII Homefront

Mobilizing to Win the War

Open up this link for the reading

Multiple Choice

Which one promotes conserving on/rationing gasoline?

Click to Play the Day of Infamy Speech

from the Hollywood film "Pearl Harbor"

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if the embedded video doesn't

work, try this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7hc0oyEfgE​

The Selective Service:

• expanded the draft after Pearl Harbor

• troops need to fight on two fronts

• European Theater

• Pacific Theater

European Theater, 1942

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Pacific Theater, 1942

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Multiple Choice

Look at page 769, underneath the red heading. How many young men volunteered for the military, after Pearl Harbor?

• 5 million

• 10 million

Multiple Choice

Look at page 769, underneath the red heading. How many young American men were drafted, after Pearl Harbor?

• 5 million

• 10 million

The federal government asked Americans to make sacrifices

• taxes raised

• prices of goods frozen

• less goods available

• rationing

What was rationing?

the government limited how much of some goods you could buy

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if the embedded video does not work, use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sG-Xle5gwU​

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Multiple Select

According to page 774, under the bold term "rationing", which of the following items were rationed during WWII?

Click four.

• shoes

• coffee

• gasoline

Multiple Choice

According to page 773, which government agency controlled prices of goods, fought inflation by "freezing prices on most goods"?

• OPA (Office of Price Administration

• War Production Board

Multiple Choice

According to page 774, under "Rationing", which government agency controlled rationing?

• OPA (Office of Price Administration

• War Production Board

Multiple Choice

According to page 774, which government agency converted the economy from a peacetime economy to a wartime economy, meaning the government controlled where resources were allocated?

• OPA (Office of Price Administration

• War Production Board

Multiple Choice

According to page 576, which government agency governed scrap drives/"drives to collect scrap"?

• OPA (Office of Price Administration

• War Production Board

Fill in the Blanks

Which Loony Tunes character was in the scrap drive cartoon?

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Multiple Choice

What was Daffy Duck asking Americans to do?

• use as much material as you can, to keep it from the military

• salvage scrap for the war effort

Americans continued to sacrifice for their country

victory gardens

Multiple Choice

What was purpose of a victory garden?

• to have park space for statues honoring soldiers that had led the US to victory

• growing your own food in order to allow farmers to produce crops for the war effort

Americans were asked to buy war bonds

• government IOUS

• you give them money now

• the government uses your money now

• you get that money back later

• plus interest

Multiple Choice

The propaganda poster in the previous slide was trying to say?

• if you don't buy war bonds, the US won't win the war

• if you don't buy war bonds, the FDR will arrest your children

Multiple Choice

Read the top full paragraph of 771.
Which factory owner (industrialist) pumped out tons of cargo carrier ships for the US government?
He helped expand the US navy and his nickname was Sir Launch-a-Lot (that last bit is not in the book).

• Ronald the Riveter

• Henry J. Kaiser

Liberty Ship Class of Naval Vessel, produced in Henry Kaiser shipyards

Fill in the Blanks

Look directly beneath the name "Henry J. Kaiser" on page 573.
What was the type of ship that Kaiser was having built in his shipyards?
You just saw an example on the previous page.

_______ Bibberty ships (cargo carriers)

​If the embedded video doesn't work, use this:

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU2tt1h53jM&t=1s

Multiple Choice

Rosie the Riveter was an example of women having expanded job opportunities in WHAT area of the economy?

• agriculture

• working in shipyards building ships

Women in the Military

women didn't just work in the factories

around 250,000 women served in the armed forces in WWII

Multiple Choice

After seeing the previous slide and looking at the section with the green heading "Expanding the Military" on page 769, what part of the army did many women join?

• George Marshall

• WAAC (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps)

Multiple Choice

One minority group had been deported from the US during the Great Depression (job competition). Now, during WWII when people were needed to work for the war effort, FDR allowed this group back in through the bracero program. What group are we talking about?

Ask Mr. Beaver if you are unsure.

• American Indians

• African Americans

• Mexican Americans

Multiple Choice

Look on page 770, in the middle, under "Dramatic Contributions".
Check out the paragraph about African Americans.
Which word best describes the types of units that black Americans served in?

• segregated

• integrated

Multiple Choice

Check out the paragraph on 771, the third paragraph under the "Labor's Contribution" section.
Did it seem like black Americans had it fair or unfair when working in defense factories?

• fair -- equal employment opportunity in local, state, and federal government jobs

• unfair -- unequal opportunity to work in defense factories

Fill in the Blanks

Type the name of the civil rights leader and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters from the 1940s. His union was made up of workers on the luxury Pullman cars we learned about during the Gilded Age.
His name is a bold term on 772. Type it exactly as it appears.

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Multiple Choice

Underneath that on 772: What did Randolph get FDR to do?

• increase segregation in Washington DC

• ban discrimination in hiring in the defense industries

The Double V Campaign

was a 1940s civil rights movement. It called for victory over fascism in Europe and victory over racism at home in the US

Match

Page 799. Match the correct pairs.

• founder of a black civil rights organization during WWII

• an interracial organization whose goal was to confront Northern urban segregation

• a year of many incidents of urban racial violence in the US (that included white American soldiers)

• baggy clothing worn by Mexican-American young men, a symbol of their rebellion against society, especially during a time when there was fabric rationing

• racial violence against Hispanic Americans from 1943, also involving white American soldiers (navy sailors)

James Farmer

CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

1943

zoot suits

zoot-suit-riots

• James Farmer

• CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

• 1943

• zoot suits

• zoot-suit-riots

Multiple Choice

Given the last few slides and questions, which phrase seems more historically accurate?

• there were no gains made for African Americans during WWII

• though they still faced discrimination, WWII set the stage for the civil rights movement to start in the next decade (1950s)

​If the embedded video doesn't work, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTioTkHcB0

Multiple Select

Why were Japanese Americans sent to internment camps?

• suspicions of their disloyalty

• national security concerns

• click both of those other two...they are both correct

Multiple Choice

Check out the next to last paragraph on 801.
What did the Supreme Court rule about Japanese internment in the 1944 case Korematsu v. US?

• Japanese internment was unconstitutional for American citizens of Japanese descent

• Japanese internment was justified on the basis of "military necessity"

Review Questions

Multiple Choice

Which of these look like it's related to Japanese internment?

Multiple Choice

Which of these look like it's related to WWII rationing?

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is related to rationing gasoline?

​Use this if the embedded video doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWF8iRCan7I

Multiple Choice

The previous song was about:

• buying war bonds

• rationing eggs and milk

• farting in Hitler's face

• joining the Axis Powers if you are of German ancestry