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The Home Front (1941 - 1945)

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Announcements

On the Home Front

Selective Service
System (draft)
Commercial production
put to military use

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

Women
Women employed outside the
home rose from 12 million to 18
million
Many women took on mens
jobs
New styles (pants, overalls)
made work possible for women
350,000 women served in the
armed forces in noncombat units

African-Americans
Tuskegee Airmen first
African-American pilots in a
segregated military

African-Americans
Double V Campaign
victory over fascism &
racism
Threatened March on
Washington
Executive Order 8802
banned racial discrimination
in defense industries

American Indians
Indian New Deal (1936) returned greater
power to tribes
Navajo Indians aided in war as code-talkers

Japanese-Americans
Executive Order 9066
Japanese-Americans moved
to internment camps
Korematsu v. United States
Supreme Court tacitly
approves temporary
internment

Mexican-Americans
Bracero program
brought 5 million
temporary
Mexican workers,
1942 1964
White soldiers
attacked Mexican
youth in LA in
Zoot Suit riots,
1943

Mexican-Americans

Synthesis
The same thing applied in the SpanishAmerican War. An imperialist president,
McKinley, led the country into war, in spite
of opposition from the Anti-imperialist
League. In that case, Americans had a lot
of distance from the last war, weakening
opposition to conflict.