Impact of WWII on Americans

Ch. 35 TCI

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

Raising Money for the War

Office of Price Controls: Set prices for products

Recycled everything

Grew Victory Gardens

Rationing

Limited Distribution of Food, Clothing.

War BondsUsed to raise money for the war

GI (government-issue)

Japanese-American Internment

After Pearl Harbor, fear of enemy spies working for Japan.

Nisei: Japanese born in America

Japanese-American Internment

Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Ancestry ordered to go to Internment Camps

Japanese-American internment

Internment Camp

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.

Women at War

“Rosie the Riveter”

“All day long,Whether rain or shine,She’s making historyWorking for VictoryRosie the Riveter”

Women at War

Women worked at Factories

Women’s Army Corps

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.

African Americans at War

Tuskegee Airmen fought in most dangerous areas

Never lost a bomber.

Jewish Americans at War

Very little reporting on the Nazi Extermination camps in US. Jews protested to bring awareness

Jewish Americans at War

Many served in Military

War Refugee Board: Camps for Jewish refugees in Europe.

Mexican-Americans at War

Racism at home. Why fight for America?

Many joined the Military

Mexican-Americans at War

Bracero Program: Immigration of Mexicans to help work on farms. (120,000)

Mexican-Americans at War

Mexican American teens (pachucos) started wearing zoot suits

Went against Rationing laws

Seen as act of defiance?

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.