The Home Front

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The Home Front

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Women's Roles

• As WWII continued, women across the world were
  learning to work as factory workers, nurses, and
  journalists. Many women even joined the army
  through an organization called the Women's Army
  Corps. WWII also brought about an increase in
  women as subjects of propaganda as well as an
  increase in prostitution. Finally, women worked
  as drivers, farmers, mail delivery personnel,
  garbage collectors, builders, and mechanics.

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Women's Roles

• These women were known as Rosie the Riveter

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Role of African Americans

• Over 2.5 million African-American men registered
  for the draft, and black women also volunteered
  in large numbers. While serving in the Army, Army
  Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard,
  they experienced discrimination and segregation
  but met the challenge and persevered.

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Role of African Americans

• Tuskegee Airman African American fighter
  pilots were trained as a part of the Army Air
  Force, but only at a segregated base located in
  Tuskegee, Alabama. Hundreds of airmen were
  trained and many saw action.

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Role of African Americans

• Tankers of the 761st Medium Tank Battalion -
  European Theater of Operations, August, 1944

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Rationing and War Measures

• During World War II, rationing became a
  necessity. To wage a war of such a large
  magnitude half a world away in opposite
  directions required an absolutely phenomenal
  amount of personnel and materiel. Production was
  increased as much as was possible. Consumption
  was limited through rationing.

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Rationing and War Measures

• Materials needed for the war included sugar,
  meat, coffee, liquor, silk stockings and products
  such as tires and gasoline.

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Rationing and War Measures

• Each civilian received ration books that
  contained stamps that allowed a fixed amount of
  certain rationed items to be dispensed.

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Japanese Internment.

• Executive Order 9066 called for the evacuation of
  all Japanese Americans to Internment Camps.

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Japanese Internment.

• During the spring and summer of 1942, the United
  States Government moved 110,000 people of
  Japanese descent from their homes in an area
  bordering the Pacific coast.

• They were moved into 10 wartime Internment
  Camps constructed in remote areas between the
  Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Mississippi River.

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F.D.R.

• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)
• 32nd president of the United States (1933-1945)
• Roosevelt served longer than any other president
  and held office during two great crises the
  Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II.

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F.D.R.

• The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 authorized the
  president to transfer military equipment to
  victims of aggression.
• On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the U.S.
  naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United
  States declared war on Japan, and on Germany and
  Italy.

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F.D.R.

• On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt died and Vice
  President Harry S. Truman became president.