WWII: Wartime America

working in factories

joining the military

helping with Victory gardens

selling war bonds

a group of female airplane manufacturers who produced more airplanes than any other group

a group of Hispanic pilots who conducted raids over Germany to stop military production there

a squadron of African American pilots who flew 200 missions without a single casualty

the largely untrained air forces who flew brave missions over Europe

Women were appointed to serve in military agencies, but were never made officers.

Women were not allowed to enter the military, so they worked in factories and increased war production.

Women were used as morale boosters at home and held fundraisers across the country.

Women were assigned to vital noncombat services, such as delivering war planes.

discounted rates that businesses gave the government in exchange for war production contracts

guaranteed profits for businesses on the quick production of war materials

contracts for war production on which companies placed competing bids

money given to companies to quickly hire the people necessary to produce war materials

to help businesses and the government work together on war production

to ensure that Americans of Japanese and German descent suffered no prejudice

to lobby Congress for the funds necessary to build two navies

to advise the president on the military movements of Germany and Japan

They created a national sense of entitlement to civil service jobs.

They ended the Japanese American internment camps.

They ensured that no federal agency or war factory could discriminate on the basis of race.

They restricted the hiring of minorities in order to ensure there would be jobs for returning soldiers.

It gave them a sense of patriotism and caused them to work for lower wages.

It devastated them with the loss of family members to the war.

It created a new economic class that competed with the poor for resources.

It brought them into the mainstream of society.

discounted rates that businesses gave the government in exchange for war production contracts

guaranteed profits for businesses on the quick production of war materials

contracts for war production on which companies placed competing bids

money given to companies to quickly hire the people necessary to produce war materials

had to fulfill its collective security agreements with Western European nations

felt it necessary to defend the principle of freedom of the seas

suffered a direct military attack

was read to use its superior military and atomic capabilities

President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the action as a military necessity

Few of those relocated were actually United States citizens

Widespread Japanese Americans disloyalty and sabotage preceded the forced relocation

The Japanese American experience was similar to what happened to German Americans at this time

The Tuskegee Tank-men

The Tuskegee Airmen

The Harlem Renaissance

Office of Price Administration(OPA)

Office of Cost Administration(OCA)

Office of Money Administration(OMA)

withhold products for themselves later on

help the OPA on pricings items in stores

ration products to help with wartime shortages

keep people in line from not re-selling the products

Native Americans who fought in the European Theater against the Germans, stopping Hitler's advance

Asian American's who helped break the Japanese secret codes on battle plans

Navajo members used their native language as code and it was never broken by the Japanese

establishing new lands for boot camps to be built for army training across the U.S.

created more money for the american people in these harsh times

established zones for the relocation of Japanese-Americans into camps away from the public

Helped gather more Japanese Americans into the camps

Worked on making better camp conditions for everyone

volunteered to join the military and fight for the United States