18A Agenda
5.17.22
German POWs after D-Day
American wounded after D-Day
1.
2.
3.
4.
Assign I.S
Finish Homefront
The European Theater
D-Day Video
LIFE DURING WARTIME
DAILY LIFE DID NOT CHANGE RADICALLY,
HOWEVER SACRIFICES WERE MADE.
*VICTORY GARDENS- 20 MILLION
*RATIONING
*NIGHTTIME BLACKOUTS
LIFE DURING WARTIME
BOOKS
* NONFICTION BECAME MORE POPULAR
•1939 - PAPERBACK BOOKS
BEGIN TO BE POPULAR
Women
WOMEN - LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT
CHANGED DRAMATICALLY
* GOV. NOW URGED WOMEN TO ENTER THE
JOB MARKET
* ROSIE THE RIVETER - SYMBOL OF PATRIOTIC
FEMALE DEFENSE WORKERS
* PAID LESS
* SEEN AS
TEMPORARY
Women
* Some women joined the Women’s
Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and
served in non-combat roles
* Women Accepted for Volunteer
Emergency Service (WAVES), a unit of
the U.S. Naval Reserve, was another
way many contributed
(1901-1989)
Historian and Journalist
• Black population essential for war effort (10% of
How to best U.S. pop.)
utilize • Why fight racist enemy in racist army of racist
society? (WWI return to discrimination)
minorities? • Double V: Home and Abroad
• Mostly support roles
• Blacks thought as too stupid for Air Corps and too
cowardly for Marines
• Most in Army and Navy as support
• Always assigned inferior or mismatched equipment
• White officers often incompetent or resentful
•Doris Miller
•Navy Messman
•Heroic actions during
Pearl Harbor
•Medal
of Honor
Cuba Gooding Jr.
played Miller in
the movie Pearl
Harbor (2001).
MINORITIES
THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
TRAINED IN TUSKEGEE ALABAMA
*ALL-BLACK UNIT
OF FIGHTER PILOTS
*99th Pursuit Squadron
Also known
as Red Tails
MINORITIES
* OVER 400 SERVED AS
NAVAJO CODE TALKERS
* 1942 MARINE SIGNAL CORPS ORGANIZED A UNIT OF NAVAJO
TO USE THEIR LANGUAGE TO CREATE A CODE
* THEIR CODES WERE NEVER BROKEN
Zoot Suit Riots:
Video Questions
•Why did Southern California have
such a large Latino population?
•How did racial tensions rise
during the war?
•How did the authorities respond
to the riot?
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtThBTf0sI
A. Philip Randolph
• Labor Leader
• Civil Rights Advocate
• Pushed FDR to create the Fair Employment Practices
Committee (FEPC). This was the first meaningful Federal
Government action towards the elevation of black status since
Reconstruction ended.
• FEPC mostly symbolic, but still significant
Executive Order 9066
• Forced Internment of Japanese Americans in West Coast “Exclusion
Zone”
• Exclusion zone consisted of CA and parts of OR, WA, and AZ
• 110,000 sent to prison camps in remote areas
• Done for national security and to calm the broader U.S. population as
rumors of sabotage circulated the country.
• Homes and businesses sold at fraction of true value as relocations
commenced.
• Korematsu v. United States (1944); Supreme Court upholds internment
Manzanar in 1942 CA: Extremely remote and isolated
18B Quickwrite:
Why did the United States
initially want to focus on
victory in Europe?
•There was an effort to
soften the image of the
Stalin and the Soviets
after years of American
criticisms and maligning
•FDR enjoyed calling
Stalin “Uncle Joe” though
Churchill remains highly
skeptical
Video Questions:
• What beach was the most difficult to take in
the D-Day invasion? Why?