World War II
The
Homefront
Created by
Mr. Johnson
Objective
•10.03 – Describe and analyze
the effects of the war on
American economic, social,
political, and cultural life.
Key Terms
War bonds
Baby boomers
Fair Deal
G.I. Bill
Korematsu v. United
States, 1944
Levittown
Northern Migration
Middle class
Rosie the Riveter
Selective Service Act
AFL-CIO
Taft-Hartley Act
WACS
War Production Board
Japanese American
Internment
Rationing
The Homefront
•“Home” – United States
•“Front” – Line of battle
•How is the war being waged in
the U.S.?
•Total War – all sectors of society
are mobilized for war
Restrictions
Selective Service Act,
1940
War Production Board
• Shift away from laissez
faire
• Gov’t Regulation
– Production of goods
– Consumption of
resources…
• Gasoline
• Heating oil
• Metals
• Rubber
• Plastics
Office of Price
Administration
• Price controls
• Rent controls
Rationing
Rationing
Victory Gardens
War Bonds
Income Tax
Media Censorship
Propaganda &
Stereotypes
Taft-Hartley Act
• Anti-union law
• Fear of communism…
Cold War coming
A.F.L.-C.I.O.
•A.F. of L. (1886)
•Breakaway – C.I.O.
(1938)
•Reunited into AFL-CIO
(1955)
•Refrained from strikes
during the war
Internment Camps
Korematsu v. U.S.
• Executive Order
9066
• Wartime powers
of government
• Civil rights
Black Soldiers
Tuskegee
Airmen
Buffalo
Soldiers
Opportunities
West Virginia State Board of
Education v. Barnette, 1943
• 1st
Amendment
• Citizens
cannot be
forced to
pledge
allegiance
to the flag
War Industry
National War Labor
Board
• Government
arbitration…
• …no interruptions
in production
Rosie the Riveter
W.A.C.S.
Womens’ Army Corps
Navajo Code
Talkers
Nisei Regiments
Great Migration
“Double V” Campaign
A. Philip Randolph
March on
Washington
Movement
Executive Order
8802
•“Fair Employment”
•No racial
discrimination in
defense industry
Mexican-American
Soldiers
• Served in
integrated
units
Bracero Program
•Temporary
Mexican
agricultural
laborers
G.I. Bill
Passed in 1944
Federal aid to
veterans
•Education
•Housing
•Unemployment
•“Servicemen’s
Readjustment Act”
Fair Deal
• Harry Truman
• Extension of New
Deal
– National health
insurance
• Republican
Resistance
Levittown, PA
•William J.
Levitt
•Suburbia
Levittown, PA
• Prefabricated
Homes
“Little Boxes”
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
“Little Boxes”
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
-Malvina Reynolds
Middle Class
Middle Class
Baby Boom
Births in the United States
Boomer Generation