America Enters World War II

GAME PLAN

• American Public: “Get Japan First”

• Government Strategy: ABC-1 Agreement

World War II at Home

Japanese-Americans

Internment Camps

Government feared acts of sabotage

Put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans into concentration

camps Wave of Post-Pearl Harbor

HysteriaAnti-Japanese prejudice on the

West Coast

Korematsu v. United States

Building the War Machine

Peacetime to Wartime Economy

• War Productions Board

• Farmers asked to increase their output

• Labor Unions - No-Strike Pledge - Strikes still occurred hurting the war effort

• Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act (1943)

Braceros

Zoot-Suits

Zoot-Suit Riots

Women

Rosie the Riveter

African-Americans

• Millions of African Americans left the South to seek jobs in the war plants of the West and North

• Tensions developed between whites and blacks

• Government response to tensions: Fair Employment Practices Commission

• More committed to advancing their Civil Rights

Native-Americans

• Thousands of Native Americans migrated to cities for jobs

• Comanche in Europe

• Navajos in the Pacific

• “Code-Talkers”

War Economy

• War invigorated the economy

• Gross National Product grew

• Office of Price Administration - hold the line of inflation

• Development of the west coast

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Federal Budget

$9 Billion $100 Billion

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GNP

$91 Billion $166 Billion