UNIT 7: WORLD WAR II

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UNIT 7 WORLD WAR II THE COLD WAR

• WORLD WAR II
• ON THE HOMEFRONT

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Preparing for war

• Like during WWI, the government stepped in to
  coordinate production.
• Office of Price Administration prevented
  inflation from shortages
• War Production Board converted industries to
  make war goods
• Office of War Mobilization a superagency that
  ran the country while Roosevelt ran the war

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Financing the War

• Government was willing to spend whatever was
  necessary to fight the war.
• Higher taxes paid about 41 of the costs.
• Revenue Act of 1942 increased the of Americans
  paying income taxes introduced pay-as-you-go
• War Bonds as in WWI
• Deficit Spending spending borrowed money and
  creating huge national debt.

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DAILY LIFE

• Shortages and controls
• Wartime shortages were common
• Metal for zippers typewriters was used to make
  guns
• Fashion changed to save cloth
• Sugar was in short supply when the Philippines
  fell to Japan
• Office of Price Administration (OPA) froze
  rents and prices rationing scarce goods through
  the use of coupon books

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WOMEN AND THE WAR

• New Jobs for Women Like WWI, women moved into
  factory jobs when men went to war.
• Problems for Working Women
• Worried about leaving their children alone
• Laws regulating equal pay for equal work were
  ignored
• Women were still responsible for taking care of
  home and family while working

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DISCRIMINATION

• African Americans
• Soldiers were segregated
• Double V campaign victory in the war for
  equal rights
• Native Americans had to adapt to life off the
  reservations
• Japanese Americans
• Hostility turned to hatred after Pearl Harbor
• Internment Camps remote inland areas where
  Japanese Americans were relocated to live during
  the war