chapter 27, section 2 the home front. promoting the war families proudly displayed window banners...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
C H A P T E R 2 7 , S E C T I O N 2
THE HOME FRONT
![Page 2: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
PROMOTING THE WAR
• Families proudly displayed window banners with a star• Blue star = loved one in service• Gold star = death in combat
• Government encouraged media to keep national moral high• War bond sales
• Question: How does a war bond work to help the war effort?
![Page 3: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
![Page 4: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
ROSIE THE RIVETER
• Daily life of women changed• Backbone of WWII
• Rosie the Riveter is the symbol of patriotic female defense workers.• Without women, U.S.
could not have produced the materials needed for the war.
![Page 5: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II
• 1940-1944 – number of women in the workforce increased by about 6 million• Married women began working outside of the
home for the first time.• Left “women’s work” such as domestic service to work in
factories
• New sense of pride and self worth• Still paid less for the same work
![Page 6: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II
![Page 7: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
WRITING ACTIVITY
• Use the hand out to summarize three changes women underwent while contributing to the war effort.• Use three complete sentences.• 5 minutes.
![Page 8: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• African Americans:• Greater opportunities:• Better paying jobs in industrial sector• Key role in military effort
• Continued discrimination:• Kept out of some work – struggled to gain acceptance• Segregated units• Kept out of combat• Hate strikes staged by white workers
• Designed to keep black workers out of high paying factory jobs
• Housing• Competition for limited housing created tensions which led to
outbursts of violence
![Page 9: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• African Americans:• A. Philip Randolph
planned a march on Washington, D.C. to protest discrimination against black workers.• Called off after
Roosevelt issued an executive order forbidding racial discrimination in defense plants and government offices
![Page 10: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• To enforce the order, Roosevelt created the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)• June 25, 1941
• FEPC:• Investigated companies engaged in defense work to
make sure all qualified applicants, regardless of race, were considered for job openings
• May 27, 1943 – executive order requiring nondiscrimination clauses in all war contracts
• Lacked strong enforcement powers and unable to prevent widespread abuse
![Page 11: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• Mexican Americans:• Opportunities:• More than 300,000 served the military
• 17 earned Congressional Medal of Arms
• 88th Division – top combat unit known as the Blue Devils• Consisted mostly of Mexican American soldiers
• Helped home front needs• Carlos E. Castaneda served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC &
worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas.
• Moved from the Southwest to industrial centers in the Midwest and on the West Coast
• 1942 agreement between U.S. and Mexico – thousands of braceros came north to work in the Southwest
![Page 12: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• Mexican Americans:• Discrimination• Jobs, housing, and recreational facilities
• Especially Los Angeles
• Zoot-Suit Riots• Zoot-suit – long, wide-shouldered jackets, trousers pegged at the
ankle, and wide-brimmed hats• June 1943 – U.S. sailors attacked youths wearing zoot-suits• Viciously beat many Mexican Americans before U.S.
government stopped them• Los Angeles police responded by arresting Mexican Americans
![Page 13: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• Japanese American Relocation:• Internment – forced relocation and imprisonment• Japanese Americans living on Pacific Coast• Issei – born in Japan, regarded by U.S. as aliens ineligible for
U.S. citizenship• Nisei – born in U.S., U.S. citizens• No evidence of disloyalty of either types of Japanese
Americans
• Federal government removed people of Japanese descent from the West Coast• Anti-Japanese feelings among some politicians and residents
![Page 14: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• Japanese American Relocation:• Ordered to detention
camps in Wyoming, Utah, and other inland states
• Hawaiian islands placed under martial law for the duration of the war• Japanese population too large
to relocate
• U.S. Supreme Court upheld internment in 1944• Many Japanese Americans
remained imprisoned until 1945
![Page 15: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
DISCRIMINATION DURING THE WAR
• Japanese Americans:• Patriotism and the desire to disprove accusations of
disloyalty inspired many young men in the camps to volunteer for military duty• Served in segregated units• Combat team, 442nd – one of the most decorated units in the
armed services• Military Intelligence Service
• Interpreters and translators
![Page 17: CHAPTER 27, SECTION 2 THE HOME FRONT. PROMOTING THE WAR Families proudly displayed window banners with a star Blue star = loved one in service Gold star](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022070413/5697bfb91a28abf838c9fbfc/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
ACTIVITIES
1. Complete the graphic organizer about discrimination during the war.• You have 8 minutes
2. Discrimination was widespread during the war, even though African, Mexican, and Japanese Americans were helping with the war effort.• Draw an image or icon that represents this problem and how
it worked in America• Surround your image with a word cloud including at least 5
nouns, 5 verbs, and 5 adjectives• Discuss and develop with your partner• You have 6 minutes