Unit 4 Lesson 2 - WWII - the Home Front and Peace

The Home Front During WWII

Agenda:

• Evaluate the U.S. Homefront during World War II and the impact of U.S. Industrialization on the war overall.
• Observe how the United States government treated Japanese Americans after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Chart Practice - Labor During WWII

What year has the lowest percentage of unemployment during World War II in the United States?

1944 - 1.2%. A record low in American economic history and as near to "full employment" as likely possible.

E.O.9066

ALLIES

Axis Powers

U.S. Joins the War

Hitler preemptively declares war on the U.S. on December 11, 1941 - saving Roosevelt from having to make a tough decision.

Soviet UnionGreat BritainUnited States

GermanyJapanItaly

U.S. At Home During the War

Airplane Production

Aircraft Production by Country WWII

The United States outproduced the world in aircraft production.

The Manhattan Project is the name for the secret plan to produce a nuclear weapon by the United States. It was led by scientists working with the military to beat the Nazis in creating the first atomic weapon.

Site of a plutonium production react to manufacture plutonium. The plutonium created here was used in the Trinity nuclear test and the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.

Uranium enrichment facility. Created the uranium for the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

Paldet- Create

Salute to Service Plaque Project! Take what you have learned about one of the Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code Talkers, Women during the war, or the Nisei soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat team. Use the AI feature in Padlet to craft the image you would like to be displayed on your plaque! Put the name of your group in the title of your Artwork and a mini-description of their service!

Here is the link and some examples as inspiration! Can't wait to see and share your creations!

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North American Aviation

• P-51 Mustang Fighters.
• B-25 Bombers.

Both important aircraft and used all over the world. Mustangs helped escort bombers in Europe to their targets.

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After the Pearl Harbor attack, fear about national security arose on the West Coast. Pressure on Congress and the President to remove persons of Japanese descent on the West Coast.

Executive Order 9066

Japanese Americans given 48 hours to leave.

• Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066 that put control of removal into the U.S. Army hands. Avoiding constitutional issues.
• West Coast was divided into military zones.
• Authorized military commanders to exclude civilians from the military area.
• The order did not specify any ethnic group but the military focused on Japanese Americans.

Rosie the Riveter! Symbol of the American working women during World War II. Used to motivate and inspire other women to join the war effort - which they did. Forever changing how women were viewed in society and the "typical" jobs they would have. 19 million women were working outside the home and 2 million were working in war industries!

The Manhattan Project combined scientists, the military, and everyday citizens to create the atomic bomb. It would forever change the world & bring about other finds like nuclear power. J.Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Labratory which grew to 6,000 people by 1945.

Tule Lake was the largest of the Japanese Internment Camps. Here is a first hand account of what it was like to go through this time period as a Japanese American.

• They were given a weeks notice.
• Born out of fear of espionage and sabotage in 1942.
• No charges against those forced to move. All lost personal liberties; most lost homes and property as well.
• A 1982 congressional report said the incarcerations were due to "race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of poltical leadership.

Anyone of Japanese ancestery in this region was imprisoned.

Exclusion Zone

Over 122,000 people from this region were moved to camps. 2/3 (70,000) were born in the U.S.

This map shows the sites in the United States where destroyers and other ships were built. Imagine how many people it would take to staff these operations all day.

U.S. Shipbuilding

Liberty Ships

• Destroyers, aircraft carriers, submarines.
• Liberty ships transported Lend Lease cargo all over the world and were vital to the are effort. .

World War II at home and abroad shaped the future of the modern Civil Rights Movement in America. African Americans had fought in all United States wars and after fighting in World War I thought when they came home they would be seen as hero's. However, this was not the case. World War II would change all of that. Learn why in this video. By 1945, the percentage of blacks who held war jobs — eight percent — approximated blacks’ percentage in the American population — about ten percent

• Heavy Bomber.
• Strategic Bombing .
• Over 12,000 were produced.
• Used in Europe and the Pacific.

Built by Boeing

B-17 Flying Fortress

Seattle, Washington

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Williow Run Ford Plant- B-24 Liberator - Employed more thatn 40,000 people. Built 8600 airplanes

From Oppenheimer (2023) - The Trinity Test.First time an atomic device had ever been detonated. No one knew what would happen. Would it start a chain reaction that ignites the entire atmosphere? No one was 100% sure it would not.