Home Sweet Home Front

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Home Sweet Home Front

• Roberta Heath
• Capital High School

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Cranking Up Our War Machine

• The U.S. had to pull itself together after the
  humiliating defeat at Pearl Harbor.
• We ran the risk of the dictators crushing
  democracies.
• Our Navy was in shambles and our Army was far
  from formidable.
• The enemies miscalculated our ability to produce
  huge quantities of weapons and food.
• The dictators said democracy was rotten and
  decadent.
• THEY WERE WRONG!!

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Propaganda

• This war was everyones job and the government
  had to make sure that everyone did their share.
• Posters were everywhere urging all to do their
  share.
• Hollywood made newsreels that carried only the
  good news from the War.
• Americans were not allowed to see pictures of
  dead soldiers.
• Correspondents reports were censored.
• Folks at home did not know that most P.O.W.s
  were mistreated or even killed.

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Women

• More then 6 million women who had never worked
  for wages entered the workforce during World War
  II.
• Rosie the Riveter was created to show women it
  was o.k. to work.
• The government set up 3,000 day-care center for
  the children of the workers.
• When the war ended two thirds of the women war
  workers left the work force.
• Many were forced out by employers eager to
  reemploy returning servicemen.

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Japanese Americans

• The Japanese, to many, seemed to be the ideal
  immigrants
• Puritan work ethic
• A strong pattern of upward mobility
• Embraced the United Stated with great patriotism

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President RooseveltsExecutive Order 9066

• February 19,1942
• Relocated more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese
  descent (Nisei)
• They were sent to War Relocation Camps on the
  West Coast.
• More then 60 were U.S.Citizens
• One-third were under the age of 19

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African Americans

• About one million African-Americans served in
  every branch in every theater.
• Units and camps were segregated.
• A1940 decision gave up segregation at officer
  candidate schools-except Air Force
• A flight school at Tuskegee, Alabama trained 600
  black pilots

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African Americans - cont.

• An executive order forbade discrimination in
  defense work
• A nondiscrimination clause was added to defense
  contracts.
• The membership of the NAACP grew during the war
  from 50,000 to
• 450,000.

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Music

• Big Band swing was the rage during the war.
• Big band leaders Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman,
  Duke Ellington, and Tommy Dorsey became famous on
  the home front and over seas.
• Singer Frank Sinatra became the first teen idol
• Big Band jazz was made for dancing.
• The jitterbug and the lindy hop were the were the
  most popular dances in clubs from coast to coast.
• The government formed big bands and provided
  recordings called v-disks to provide
  entertainment for the troops.

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Rationing and Recycling

• Rationing was the activity that everyone at home
  had to do.
• Ration books were distributed.
• Favorite slogans were Use it up/ Wear it out
  ,Make it do/or do without, and When you ride
  alone,you ride with Hitler
• Citizens were urged to join car-sharing clubs

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Victory Gardens

• All citizens were urged to plant victory gardens.
• Home canning was encouraged since tin was scarce.
• Gardens were planted everywhere there was dirt.
• Americans were encouraged to waste not an ounce