apush 2_25 home front

7/24/2019 APUSH 2_25 Home Front

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Do Now

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MATCHING)then set up

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2/25/2016The Home Front (1941 - 1945)

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Announcements


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On the Home Front

Selective Service

System (draft)

Commercial production

put to military use


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On the Home Front

Paid for war through

new taxes and loans

(bonds and

commercial loans) Food & other goods

rationed to save

materials for war


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Women

Women employed outside the

home rose from 12 million to 18

million

Many women took on mensjobs

New styles (pants, overalls)

made work possible for women

350,000 women served in the

armed forces in noncombat units


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African-Americans

Tuskegee Airmenfirst

African-American pilots in a

segregated military


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African-Americans

Double V Campaign

victory over fascism &

racism

Threatened March onWashington

Executive Order 8802

banned racial discrimination

in defense industries


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American Indians

Indian New Deal (1936)returned greater

power to tribes

Navajo Indians aided in war as code-talkers


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Japanese-Americans

Executive Order 9066

Japanese-Americans moved

to internment camps

Korematsu v. United States

Supreme Court tacitly

approves temporary

internment


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Mexican-Americans

Bracero program

brought 5 million

temporary

Mexican workers,19421964

White soldiers

attacked Mexican

youth in LA inZoot Suit riots,

1943


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Mexican-Americans


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Synthesis

The same thing applied in the Spanish-

American War. An imperialist president,

McKinley, led the country into war, in spite

of opposition from the Anti-imperialistLeague. In that case, Americans had a lot

of distance from the last war, weakening

opposition to conflict.

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