America's Home Front

Cartoon by Dr. Seuss. Retrieved from http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm on 3/31/10

Propaganda Posters

The US used many propaganda posters to drum up support for the war effort.Images retrieved from http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html

This poster uses demonizatoin to get American support.

New Opportunities For Women

Rosie the Riveter was created to encourage women to take

factory jobs while the men were away fighting.

Images retrieved from Images retrieved from http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html

Women were also encouraged to join

the military.

New Opportunities For African Americans

African American nurseshttp://davislearningcenter.com/WWII%20Project.html

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American aviators in the American military.http://davislearningcenter.com/WWII%20Project.html

The greater need for

factory workers

during WWII provided

many jobs for African

Americans on the home

front.http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/images/african-

americans-wwii-248.jpg

Conservation

Propaganda used emotional appeals to encourage Americans to make sacrifices and conserve as much as they could to help the war effort.

http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html

Victory Gardens

Americans were also encouraged to grow their own food during WWII.

War Bonds

http://www.propagandaposters.us/index.html

Americans were encouraged to buy war bonds to help finance the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bond#World_War_II for FDR video.

Japanese Internment

In 1942, FDR signed an executive order stating that Japanese-Americans must live in internment camps for the duration of WWII. This was because they were seen as a threat to American safety. More than 100,000 Japanese-Americans, many of whom were American citizens, were forced to live in these camps.