Please get out paper for your Chapter 34 quiz.

If Non-AP English Student, please turn in your JPR works cited page to the bin.

When finished, turn in and pull out the PD you read as homework.

Reminders for Thursday 3/1◦ Chapter 35 quiz◦ Unit debate due◦ Unit supplemental summaries due

Reminders for Monday 3/5◦ Exam 6 ◦ Unit 6 Reading Journals due◦ Exam 5 corrections due

You have a lot to cover today, so stay focused. Be kind, listen, and make good decisions. I

look forward to a good report.

Number off… get with your partner. You will work together throughout the period

to create a list of evidence statements in response to the following assertion:

Life on the home front was impacted (both positively and negatively) by WW2.

You’ll discuss 5 topics. Think deeply about the documents and video clips. Collect your evidence statements on the provided worksheet.

Take notes on your own paper.

Discuss “A Black American Ponders the War”.◦ Why did some African Americans argue against

supporting WW2?◦ Why did some African Americans argue for

supporting WW2? Video clip

Drawing from the PD and the video clip, develop an “evidence statement” using evidence based on minorities on the war front to support the assertion.

African Americans◦ non-combatant◦ segregated units◦ Double V Campaign

Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, women

Discuss the charts and map◦ What trends do you notice? What explains them?◦ Do you think the economy is strong or weak

during the period? Why? Video clip

Drawing from the PD and the video clip, develop an “evidence statement” using evidence based on mobilizing for war to support the assertion.

totally revamped the economy◦ War Productions Board

conversion of factories◦ Office of Price

Administration◦ War Labor Board

limited wage increases Smith-Connally Anti-Strike

Act

implications◦ end to Great Depression◦ debt ◦ close relationship between

business and government

Video clip

Discuss the posters: • What tactics are used to appeal to Americans? Are they convincing?• What is asked of Americans? How do these actions relate to the war front?

Drawing from the PD and the video clip, develop an “evidence statement” using evidence based on supporting the war through economic sacrifice to support the assertion.

Office of Censorship and Office of War Information

Conservation◦ victory gardens◦ Rationing

black market◦ material drives

Financial Support◦ war bonds◦ higher taxes

Rosie the Riveter lyrics (1942) All the day long,Whether rain or shine,She’s a part of the assembly line.She’s making history,Working for victory,Rosie the Riveter.Keeps a sharp lookout for

sabotage,Sitting up there on the fuselage.That little girl will do more than a

male will do.Rosie’s got a boyfriend, Charlie,Working overtime on the riveting

machine.When they gave her a production

“E,”She was a proud as she could be.There’s something true about,Red, white, and blue aboutRosie the Riveter.

Video Clip

Felicia Ruiz, Mexican American defense industry worker

 “During the depression the only

jobs available to young Mexican American women were limited primarily to sewing and laundry work, hotel maids, and as domestics. These jobs were both physically demanding and paid very little. When the war broke out, defense jobs were all of a sudden open to us because of the labor shortage with the men off to war. Many of us left these menial jobs into highly skilled occupations with good to excellent pay with overtime.”

Discuss the Documents – Has WW2 improved/worsened their lives? How might these experiences influence these groups once the war is over?

Drawing from the PD and the video clip, develop an “evidence statement” using evidence based on opportunities and obstacles for minorities at home (women, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans) to support the assertion.

Women◦ military service◦ flooded the labor force◦ returned to traditional

roles at end of war

Women◦ military service◦ flooded the labor force◦ returned to traditional

roles at end of war African-Americans

◦ migrated North and West◦ Congress of Racial

Equality◦ Fair Employment

Practices Commission

Women◦ military service◦ flooded the labor force◦ returned to traditional

roles at end of war African-Americans

◦ migrated North and West◦ Congress of Racial

Equality◦ Fair Employment

Practices Commission Mexican-Americans

◦ Bracero program◦ Zoot Suit Riot

That Damned Fence (circulated at Arizona internment camp)

 They’ve sunk the posts deep into the groundThey’ve strung out wires all the way around.With machine gun nests just over there,And sentries and soldiers everywhere. We’re trapped like rats in a wired cage,To fret and fume with impotent rage;Yonder whispers the lure of the night,But that DAMNED FENCE assails our sight. We seek the softness of the midnight air,But that DAMNED FENCE in the floodlight

glareAwakens unrest in our nocturnal quest,And mockingly laughs with vicious jest. With nowhere to go and nothing to do,We feel terrible, lonesome, and blue:That DAMNED FENCE is driving us crazy,Destroying our youth and making us lazy.

Video Clip

 

Imprisoned here for a long, long time,We know we’re punished – though we’ve

committed no crime,Our thoughts are gloomy and enthusiasm

damp,To be locked up in a concentration camp. Loyalty we know, and patriotism we feel,To sacrifice our upmost was our ideal,To fight for our country, and die, perhaps;But we’re here because we happen to be

Japs. We all love life, and our country best,Our misfortune to be here in the west,To keep us penned behind that DAMNED

FENCE,Is someone’s notion of NATIONAL DEFENSE!

Discuss the document :• What was life like in the camps? • Why were these camps created?• Was this an appropriate action for the U.S. government to take?

Drawing from the PD and the video clip, develop an “evidence statement” using evidence based on opportunities and obstacles (Japanese Internment) to support the assertion.

Japanese◦ Executive Order

9066 Internment Camps immigrants and

citizens West Coast residents upheld as

constitutional paid reparations

Answer this as a pair on the back of your worksheet.◦ How valuable was the home front to Allied

victory in World War2? Be sure to defend your assessment with specific evidence.