WWII Homefront

•Internment of Japanese, German and Italian Americans

•Executive order 9066

•Rationing

•Draft

•US Office of War Information

•Nationalism

•War bonds and victory gardens

•Mobilization for war

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3rd place Hitler demanded ​

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WWII began when Hitler and Stalin invaded ​

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Czechoslovakia

Sudetenland

Poland

September 1, 1939

December 7, 1941

France

Italy

Japan

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Where did the Japanese attack the U.S. on Dec. 7, 1941?

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Americans purchased ​

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to help finance the war in WWI and WWII.

To supplement food shortages, Americans grew their own food in ​

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during WWI and WWII.

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War Bonds

Victory Gardens

Gold

Commercial Farms

​Just like WWI, citizens supported the war effort by purchasing War Bonds.

They could redeem them after the war.

War Bonds

Due to rationing, citizens grew their own food in their yards. This cut down on the amount of food bought so that it could be saved for the troops and the war effort.

Victory Gardens

Rationing was used to SAVE war material for the war, ie. steel, rubber, oil, gas, etc.

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​Rationing

​All incoming information about the war was filtered through the government.

The government produced news reels to keep citizens updated on the war.

OWI:

Office of War Information

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• Limited food and other resources needed for the war

• Citizens bought these to support the war with money

• Government agency that filtered and distributed all information about the war

• Gardens that citizens grew to supplement their own food supply

Rationing

War Bonds

Office of War Information

Victory Gardens

• Rationing

• War Bonds

• Office of War Information

• Victory Gardens

Women are an invaluable source of labor during WWII. They welded, made ammunition, put together aircraft engines, built ships, etc.

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​War Production and Women

Black women worked alongside White women in factories.

Black men fought alongside Whites in the military.

Tuskegee Airmen: Black Pilots whose performance opened doors for Blacks in the military: will lead to desegregation of the military.

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​African-Americans

​Ordered American citizens of Japanese, Italian and German descent into "Military Areas" or Internment Camps.

This was serious violation of civil rights, but the government deemed it necessary.

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Executive Order 9066

Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942) | National Archives

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The order does not call the camps "Internment Camps". What does the order call them?

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How long does the order state that detainees are to remain in the "Military Areas"?

 Executive order 9066 by President Roosevelt resulted in the internment

of 110,000 Japanese Americans in camps for the duration of WWII:

 “As President and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby

authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military
Commanders, whenever he or any designated Commander deems such
action to be necessary or desirable, to [order] military areas in such
places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Commander may
determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with
respect to which, the right of any persons to enter, remain in, or leave
shall be subject to whatever restriction the Secretary of War or the
appropriate Military Commander may impose in his discretion…”

 1. What was FDR’s rationale to relocate the Japanese Americans?
 2. In light of the attack on Pearl Harbor, do you believe FDR was

justified in issuing the order?

Crystal City (Family) Internment Camp | THC.Texas.gov - Texas Historical Commission

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African American fighter pilots​

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African American women ​

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Order by FDR to relocate Japanese, Italian, and German Americans to Internment Camps ​

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Tuskegee Airmen

Worked in factories and in the military

Order 9066