DBQ PowerPoint

Frank BediakoLuis

MuhammadRob Flores

TopicAmerica during World War II (WWII)

Prompt QuestionHow were the live of Americans on the

home front affected, socially and economically, during World War II?

Franklin D. RooseveltSource: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Radio Address Announcing the Proclamation of an Unlimited National Emergency, "We Choose Human Freedom" May 27, 1941

Now, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that an unlimited national emergency confronts this country, which requires that its military, naval, air and civilian defenses be put on the basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of aggression directed toward any part of the Western Hemisphere.

I call upon all the loyal citizens engaged in production for defense to give precedence to the needs of the Nation to the end that a system of government that makes private enterprise possible may survive.

I call upon all our loyal workmen as well as employers to merge their lesser differences in the larger effort to insure the survival of the only kind of government which recognizes the rights of labor or of capital.

I call upon loyal State and local leaders and officials to cooperate with the civilian defense agencies of the United States to assure our internal security against foreign directed subversion and to put every community in order for maximum productive effort and minimum of waste and unnecessary frictions.

I call upon all loyal citizens to place the Nation's needs first in mind and in action to the end that we may mobilize and have ready for instant defensive use all of the physical powers, all of the moral strength, and all of the material resources of this Nation.

DocumentsGraph showing the number of

employed in 1940-1946 (WWII)

Women during WWII"I think a lot of women said,

Screw that noise. 'Cause they had a taste of freedom, they had a taste of making their own money, a taste of spending their own money, making their own decisions. I think the beginning of the women's movement had its seeds right there in World War Two." -Dellie Hahne, an educator who worked as a nurse's aid for the Red Cross during the war

Americans of Japanese Descent

Source: In Response to Executive Order 9066, Dwight OkitaAll Americans of Japanese DescentMust Report to Relocation Centers

Dear Sirs: “Of course I'll come. I've packed my galoshes and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them love apples. My father says where we're going they won't grow I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. My best friend is a white girl named Denise- we look at boys together. She sat in front of me all through grade school because of our names: O'Connor, Ozawa. I know the back of Denise's head very well. I tell her she's going bald. She tells me I copy on tests. We're best friends. I saw Denise today in Geography class. She was sitting on the other side of the room "You're trying to start a war," she said, "giving secrets away to the Enemy. Why can't you keep your big mouth shut?" I didn't know what to say. I gave her a packet of tomato seeds and asked her to plant them for me, told her when the first tomato ripened she'd miss me.”Dwight Okita

Outside Information African-American Migration,

1940-1950 James Farmer and the

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Japanese Relocation Camps, 1942

Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

The Zoot Suit Riot in Los Angeles of 1943

GI Bill of Rights of 1944 The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

in Hawaii The Bracero program in 1942 Manzanar Internment Camp,

1943 The War Production Board

makings of weaponry Aftermath of the Great

Depression Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act

of June 1943 John L. Lewis and the United

Mine Workers The Baby Boom

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Roosevelt establishing the Fair

Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Pre-Civil Rights Movement The National Debt, 1930-1950 The Ration System of 1942 The American Teenage movement in

the 1940s The Women Airforce Service Pilots

(WASP) The African-American Double V

campaign Roosevelt signing of Executive Order

9066 Korematsu v. United States American propaganda during World

War II

Review Handout America was coming out of the Great Depression. They were trying to

keep out of World War II. The bombing of Pearl Harbor caused them to become involved. The lives of the Americans on the home front were changed drastically both socially and economically. The main change socially was women in the workforce. They began to occupy jobs that were once only occupied by men. They acquired a new sense of freedom and control over their own lives. They worked both at home and in the military. Another social change involved race. African Americans in the war gained African Americans at home some respect. They were no longer thought of as incapable. Large scale migration of African Americans from the south to north defense centers caused racial tensions in some of the more crowded cities. After bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were targeted and suspected of being spies. They were sent to internment camps. No Japanese American was safe from persecution. Economically every American was affected. A rationing system was implemented to save resources for the war effort. Income per person was at an all time high. Savings was as well, invested in war bond, which they benefited from post war. Nearly every American made sacrifices and did what they could to contribute to the war effort.

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