topic 8b the homefront. morale office of civilian defense victory gardens 40% of vegetables during...
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Production War Production Board Helped convert factories to war factories Limited the essential production of non-war materials Convinced business to build new factories Production doubled Beginning in 1942, unemployment decreased drasticallyTRANSCRIPT
Topic 8B – The Homefront
Morale• Office of Civilian Defense• Victory gardens
• 40% of vegetables during the war
• Scrapping• Volunteer work
• Entertainment• Media used to gather
support for the war• Movies• Radio addresses
Production• War Production Board• Helped convert factories to
war factories• Limited the essential
production of non-war materials• Convinced business to build
new factories• Production doubled• Beginning in 1942,
unemployment decreased drastically
Economic Effects• Wage rates increase by 24%• Weekly earnings rise 70%
• All due to increased war production• Office of Price Administration
• Fixes a price ceiling on goods• Rationing
• Americans gave up consuming certain items so it could go to war production• All despite increasing wages and desperation from the Great Depression
Social Effects• Migration to cities• Rise of Boomtowns • Family stress• Women• Children
• Racial Tension• Zoot Suit Riots • Bloody Monday
Social Effects• Japanese internment• “Relocated due to threat of
spying”• Businesses closed• Camps bleak and in the
middle of nowhere• Seemed more like prison
than anything• American citizens rounded
up and moved to camps• Japanese-Americans
suffered from racial discrimination
End of WWII• Effects• End of the New Deal and focus on winning the war• Government is now responsible for the economy
• Using deficit spending• Racism persists despite fighting Hitler• Great sacrifices were made to accomplish victory• America emerges as the strongest nation in the world
• Economically• Militarily
• Advances in society for minorities• Women• African-Americans