Almost 5 million women joined the workforce Replaced men who were fighting Held a variety of jobs
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Almost 5 million women joined the workforce– Replaced men who
were fighting– Held a variety of jobs
Women in Wartime
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Offices Factories
Welders Police Officers
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• Fictional woman factory worker, became the symbol of US women contribution to the war effort.
Rosie the Riveter
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• Women Confidence ↑• Women’s Pay ↑• Working Conditions ↑
• Fashions change• Overalls and Scarves– NO SKIRTS ON THE JOB!
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Woahhh! Pop-Culture!!!!Things always come back in style!...
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African Americans at WarAA’s fought a Double V Campaign- Victory abroad over the enemy.
Victory at home over racial discrimination.
- Still discrimination at home: “Help Wanted. Whites only” signs replaced “No Help Wanted”
- FDR pushed to end racial discrimination in industry.
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• AA employment doubled during WWII.• Racial tension increased as a result of
mixed living in cities and work places.• In 1943, race riots broke out in Detroit,
NYC, and other cities.
Racial Tensions
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• Nearly 1 mil. AA’s served in WWII.
• All-AA units commanded by white officers.
• Looked passed the racism fought for country
Courage Under Fire
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Tuskegee Airmen• AA fighter pilots trained at Tuskegee, AL• By end of war, they destroyed about 400
enemy aircrafts
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Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans who had been living in
the U.S. & were not connected to issues
abroad were met with a HUGE amount of racism
Most lived on west coast, or in Hawaii
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Forced Relocation
• After PH, many Americans treated Japanese Americans poorly & questioned their loyalty
• Fear of spies BUT no evidence to support that fear
• FDR signed order allowing army to move Japanese Americans from their homes to relocation camps
• Many were U.S. citizens by birth
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Japanese Internment Camps
• 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to sell their homes, farms or businesses at great loss• In camps, they lived in crowded
barracks behind barbed wire
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Fighting in WWII
• Despite unfair treatment, thousands of Japanese American men served in the U.S. army
• Most were put into segregated units & sent to fight in Europe (more dangerous)
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• *1988 – Congress apologized to
Japanese Americans who had been sent to camps during the war.
• * Congress then approved
compensation: repayment for losses - $20,000 to each camp
survivor
WOOOPS!!!