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Title: 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?

2
Mobilization for Defense
  • Unit 8

3
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

4
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

5
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

6
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

7
OSRD
  • Office of Scientific Research and Development
  • Created
  • Bug spray no lice!
  • Sonar
  • Radar
  • Penicillin
  • Atomic Bomb

8
Federal Government Takes Control
  • US loses its democracy and its capitalism
  • Japanese Internment Camps

9
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?
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