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Objectives:
• Summarize the social effects of the war effort on the home front.
• Describe how racial intolerance on the home front effects Japanese Americans, African Americans & Hispanics.
• Describe how the war effort affected popular culture
What strains did war place on families?
• Housing shortages…
• Rationing…
• Balancing work and households…
• Lack of child care…
• Latchkey kids…
• Juvenile delinquency…
• High school drop-outs…
Family Life on the Home front
Between 1940- 1943 more than a million more couples married than if had there been no war
By 1946 divorces skyrocketed Housing Shortage-Federal Gov. build 2 million
new homes Juvenile Delinquency increased during the war By 1944 High School enrollments decreased by
1.2 million “Back to School Campaign” More books, magazines and baseball 60% of Americans viewed movies per week
Other war time trends?
• Marriage rate up…
• Incomes up….
• Divorce rate up…
• Public health improved…
• Death rate down…
Objective…Describe how racial
intolerance on the home front effects
Japanese Americans, African Americans &
Hispanics.
Japanese Internment Fear of invasion and lack of loyalty
0.1% of US Pop. Executive Order 9066
civil rights were suspended the army began rounding up Japanese citizens
Japanese Americans West Coast were given one week transported to camps in UT, CO, AK, ID,AZ,WY,
and CA. 120,000 people
442nd Japanese American Unit
KIA WIA MIA Total
Naples-Foggia Campaign
139 442 3 584
Rome-Arno Campaign
239 1,016 17 1,272
Rhineland Campaign-Vosges
160 1,220 42 1,422
Rhineland Campaign-Maritime Alps
11 102 2 115
Po Valley Campaign
101 922 3 1,026
Total 650 3713* 67 4,419*
KIA = Killed In Action (includes Died Of Wounds)WIA =442nd Regimental Combat Team Facts Wounded In Action (includes Injured In Action)*Includes 15 WIA/IIA in 442nd Anti-Tank Company at Southern France Campaign (invasion)
Source: U.S. Army Mediterranean Theater of Operations Information-Education Section. The Story of the 442nd Combat Team, Composed of: 442nd Infantry Regiment, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company, 1945.
F. KorematsuIn 1942
convicted of “being in a place from which all
persons of Japanese
ancestry were excluded”
Results of Internment Japanese Americans lost homes and
businesses valued at $500 million Korematsu vs the US (1944) The Supreme
Court upheld the relocation on the grounds of national security
In 1988 the US Congress gave reparations of $20,000 to each internee and a public apology to each of the 60,000 surviving victims
The citation in part read…“Fred Korematsu challenged our Nation’s conscience, reminding us that we must uphold the rights of our own citizens even as we fight tyranny in other lands.” President W.J Clinton
Civil Rights & Race Riots
Why was the goal of fighting for democracy in Europe viewed as hypocritical to most African Americans?...
What was the “Double V” campaign?
• Destroy racism at home and abroad
• Victory on battlefield and over racial discrimination
• Black support of war hinged upon America’s commitment to racial justice
A. Philip Randolph meets with FDR & demands…
• An end of segregation & discrimination in gov’t hiring.
• An end to segregation in the military.
• An end to discrimination & segregation in all employment.
How was A. Philip Randolph a leader in civil rights?
• President of the Sleeping Car Porters Union…
• Organized a march on Washington demanding that the gov’t open jobs in the defense industry to blacks
• Executive Order 8802…
• Fair Employment Practices Commission…
Discrimination and Reaction Between 1940 and 1944 the % of African
Americans working in skilled or semi-skilled jobs rose from 16% to 30%
In 1942 civil rights leader James Farmer founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to combat urban segregation
Detroit Race Riot of 1943 – 3 days, 9 whites, and 25 blacks were killed, FDR sent in troops
A. Phillip Randolph’s efforts resulted in the FEPC “Double V Campaign” started in Pitt. Pa
What was CORE?
• Interracial – Congress of Racial Equality
• Pacifists…
• Sit-ins…
• Integrate diners – Jack Sprat Coffee Houses in Chicago
What were the goals of the NAACP?
• Anti – lynching and poll tax legislation
• End discrimination in the military
• End black disenfranchisement
• Membership grew from 50,000 in 1940 to 450,000 in 1945
What was the source of racial tension during the war?
• Black migration -1.2 million left the South to work in defense industry…
• Housing shortage…
• Whites objected to economic equality..
• Increased black militancy…
“Wartime Detroit”
1. How did black expectations differ from the reality of the life they encountered in Detroit?
2. Why did Detroit become a center of racial conflict?
3. Who or what was at fault?
4. How was the situation resolved?
How did blacks gain by the war experience?
• More blacks are voting…
• Other countries are aware of racism in the U.S…
• The U.S. appears hypocritical….
• High expectations from blacks…
• 1 million blacks in the military – slowly begins to integrate…
Zoot Suit Riots 200,000 Mexican Americans were legally
brought to the US to work – Braceros Many Mexican Americans lived in barrios In 1943 Mexican Americans wore “Zoot
Suits” as a symbol of rebellion On June 4th, 11 sailors claimed they were
attacked, mobs violence erupted between servicemen and Zoot Suits, many young Mexican were beaten and jailed unjustly with 700 injured
How did the war affect popular culture?
• “country” and “rhythm and blues” migrated North
• Patriotism and the concept of the “good war”…
• Sentimental…
• Anti-fascist…
• Super – hero – comics…