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WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT • World War II ends the Great Depression and creates the framework for the next thirty years of economic prosperity – John Maynard Keynes: deficit spending (US national debt goes from $43 million in 1940 to $259 million in 1945)—Keynesian Economics • Economic policy of war years maintained in postwar era

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WORLD WAR IITHE HOMEFRONT

• World War II ends the Great Depression and creates the framework for the next thirty years of economic prosperity– John Maynard Keynes: deficit spending (US

national debt goes from $43 million in 1940 to $259 million in 1945)—Keynesian Economics

• Economic policy of war years maintained in postwar era

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WORLD WAR IITHE HOMEFRONT

• Economic Mobilization and the South– Hastens the decline of southern agriculture– South becomes both a campground and an

arsenal during the war

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Andrew Jackson Higgins – New Orleans

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Wage and Price Controls

Rationing

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• Women and World War II

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Hair Style for Safety

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Women in Military Service

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• African Americans and World War II– An even greater migration

• More than 1 million blacks leave the South for the North and West (twice the number of migrants during the “Great Migration” during the WWI years)

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Double-VCampaign

Smith v. Allwright(1944)

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A segregated military

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Tuskegee Airmen

Benjamin Davis

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• Black Protest– A. Philip Randolph (March on Washington)– Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)

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Eleanor Clubs

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Zoot-Suit Riots - 1943

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• Birth of Teen Culture– Weakening of family ties and authority of the

schools– Prosperity and enhanced job opportunities– Changes in high school– Increase in teen gangs and juvenile delinquency

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Forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans (1942)

Concerns about National Security

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America and the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism


WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT

WORLD WAR II THE HOMEFRONT

World War II Homefront Mobilizing for War Industrial Production Women and the War Rationing and shortages The Government and the people Conclusions.

World War II Homefront Mobilizing for War Industrial Production Women and the War Rationing and shortages The Government and the people Conclusions.

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War on the homefront pictures

World War I Notes The U.S. in War and Life on the Homefront.

World War I Notes The U.S. in War and Life on the Homefront.

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Lesson 12 africans americans, the homefront and women during world war ii – great depression and world war ii unit ii

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Crime and Punishment on the Civil War Homefront

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World War One The Homefront and the War Effort

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US Homefront During World War II

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The Homefront World War II Created by Mr. Johnson.

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World War II Homefront