America on the Homefront

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America on the Homefront
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National Unity

• Not a problem due to the Japanese
• German, Italian and Japanese Americans supported
  the war effort

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Japanese Interment Camp

• Executive Order 9066
• 110,000 believed to be a threat to national
  security
• Located in western states
• Unnecessary and unfair
• 1988 government officially apologized for its
  actions

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Camp in Colorado

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Building the War Machine

• Massive military order
• War Production Board
• End production on nonessential items
• Assigned priorities to raw materials
• Items were rationed
• Rubber and gasoline
• Henry J. Kaiser Sir Launchalot the miracle ship
  builder one in fourteen days

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Womenpower

• Draft drained the nation of workers
• More then 6 million took up jobs
• Rosie the Riveter

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Help from Mexico

• Agreement with Mexico brought thousands of farm
  workers to US
• Called Braceros
• Young teenagers
• Lived in temp camps
• Led to the the establishment of Latino
  communities in much of the South and Northwest

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Internal Migration during War

• Few events in US history have moved so many
  people
• West boomed
• Boomtowns grew LA, Detroit, Seattle, Baton
  Rough
• Many stayed in their new homes after the war

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African Americans

• 1.6 million left the South to seek jobs in the
  factories in the West and North
• Meant that race relations was to be a national
  issue after the war not a regional issue
• FDR executive order 8802 no discrimination in
  defense industries
• Double V

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Rationing on the Homefront

• Issued ration stamps/booklets
• Buy from the Office of Price Administration
• Trading took place when one ran out
• Book letter for gas type of job