Focus

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Focus

• If you were the same age as you are now and lived
  in America in 1945 . . .
• Would you support Americas declaration of war on
  Japan?
• How do you think war will change your life?
• What sacrifices are you willing to make to help
  your country?

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Mobilization for Defense

• Unit 8

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After Pearl Harbor

• Japanese Newspapers bragging about crippling the
  US
• 5 million American men volunteered to join the
  military
• Another 10 million were drafted
• GI government issued

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Women in the Military

• WAAC Womens Auxilary Army Corps
• Non-combat roles in the military
• Take women into the armed services and who then
  will do the cooking, the washing, the mending
• - US Congressman

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Minorities in the Armed Services

• African Americans
• Tuskegee Airman
• Some African Americans were drafted to fight for
  a democracy that didnt provide them with civil
  liberties
• Just carve on my tombstone, Here lies a black
  man killed fighting a yellow man for the
  protection of a white man
• Native Americans
• Code Talkers
• Navajo - 420
• Sac Fox in Missouri - 27
• Chinese Japanese Americans
• Interpreters

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Homefront

• Factories completly changed their production to a
  wartime production
• Car factories became plane factories
• Bottling factories became shell producing
  factories
• Prefabricated parts in factories shipped to
  shipyards
• Entire ships were built in 3 days
• Roosevelt ordered factories to not discriminate
  in their hiring practices
• For the first time, minorities and women got the
  opportunity to work in factory jobs that they
  were denied in the past

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OSRD

• Office of Scientific Research and Development
• Created
• Bug spray no lice!
• Sonar
• Radar
• Penicillin
• Atomic Bomb

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Federal Government Takes Control

• US loses its democracy and its capitalism
• Japanese Internment Camps

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Federal Government Takes Control
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Federal Government Takes Control
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Federal Government Takes Control
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Federal Government Takes Control
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Federal Government Takes Control
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Federal Government Takes Control

• Economic Controls
• Office of Price Administration (OPA) froze
  prices
• War Production Board (WPB) regulated raw
  materials to be sent to war industries
• Victory Gardens
• Rationing households were only allowed to buy a
  certain amount of meat, sugar, coffee, gas
• Coupon Books
• What would be a potential problem to rationing
  all Americans equally?
• Do we still have a capitalist economy?