Ch. 20 Outline On the Home Front

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Ch. 20 OutlineOn the Home Front

• Take notes on the following

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Peace Time Draft

• Selective Service and Training Act of 1940
• First peacetime conscription in US history
• Males 21-35 required to register
• Lottery system
• Required to serve for twelve (12) months
• No more than 900,000 men allowed in training at
  one time
• Needed a minimum 4th grade education.

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Draft Evasion

• Canada had no law against draft evasion and was a
  popular destination for draft dodgers
• 6,000 men went to prison for illegally avoiding
  the draft
• Conscientious objection for religious reasons was
  1 legal way to avoid being drafted

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Romance

• 1,000 servicemen a day got married between
  December 7, 1941 and December 7, 1942

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Allotment Annies

• Allotment Annies hung around military bases.
• When the opportunity presented itself, an Annie
  romanced and married an unsuspecting serviceman.
• She then tearfully saw her soldier off as he
  headed overseas.
• As she began to collect his 50 monthly allotment
  check, she was already waiting to trap the next
  soldier.
• Some Annies collected six or seven checks per
  month, although authorities did eventually catch
  up with them.

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Army Life

• Boring
• Lots of drill
• SNAFU (Situation Normal, All)
• FUBAR (Beyond All Recognition)

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Segregation

• Trained by cast-off white officers
• Segregated barracks
• Second-hand equipment
• Blood plasma kept separate
• Did not end until 1948

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A. Philip Randolph

• Upset with discrimination in defense plants and
  segregation of the military.

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Japanese Soldiers

• No greater honor than to fight and die for the
  Emperor
• To surrender was disgraceful

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Problems in the Pacific

• Misunderstood the beauty of the women
• 16 inches of rain in 1 day and then HUMIDITY
• Sharks
• Head hunters
• Guadalcanal
• Leeches
• Jungle Bunnies

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Home Front

• Propaganda
• Stars and athletes
• Women worked in factories and received increase
  pay
• Child care centers

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Music

• Frank Sinatra
• Bing Crosby
• Andrews Sisters
• Glenn Miller (big band)

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Propaganda

• Started in schools
• Air raid drills
• Classes that emphasized technical skills and PE
• Colleges gave degrees in 3 years instead of 4

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Efforts to Support the War

• Scrap drives
• Victory garden
• Rationing
• Sugar
• Meat
• Gasoline

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Issei

• First generation Japanese American

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Nisei

• Second generation Japanese American

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Racism/Prejudice

• Japanese were accused of being spies
• Insurance companies cancelled policies
• Milkmen wouldnt deliver to them
• Banks wouldnt cash their checks
• Gas stations refused service

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Relocation

• Japanese Americans were moved to protect them
  from harm
• Received 48 hours notice

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Relocation Centers

• Barbed wire
• Guard towers
• No heat/running water
• Common latrines
• Raised the American flag everyday
• Rose Bowl
• Santa Anita Racetrack

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Japanese Americans in the War

• Allowed to join the army in 1943
• 100th and 442nd infantry
• Served in Italy with zero desertions

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Americans Under Attack

• West Coast
• Airplane attacks
• Balloons carrying bombs
• Submarines
• East Coast
• German submarines dropped off spies

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• If you had 48 hours to relocate, what would you
  take in your 2 allowed suitcases?