WWII: America at War & The Holocaust
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Mr. Ermer
U.S. History Honors
Miami Beach Senior High
WWII: America at War & The Holocaust
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1940: Congress passes Selective Service & Training Act1st peacetime draft in American history
Army flooded with new recruits, needs land & supplies
U.S. army was segregatedAfrican-Americans see war as opportunity to
fight racism“Double V”: Victory over racism in Germany and at
homeTuskegee Airmen: 99th Pursuit SquadronNavajo “code talkers”500,000 Hispanics (17 win Medal of Honor)
Women serve various roles (Women’s Army Corps)
The U.S. Military
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Camp Miami Beach
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FDR’s National Defense Advisory CommitteeCost-Plus: Gov’t will pay businesses the cost
plus a percentage in profit for war materialsBuilding fighter planes and “two ocean” navy
stimulate economic growth200,000 factories converted to wartime
productionCar factories make tanks, ships, planes“Liberty Ships”
America’s Wartime Economy
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WWII ends the Great DepressionFamilies move to where the jobs are—Sunbelt
Most men go off to war, especially white menWomen, African-Americans, Mexican immigrants fill
jobs once reserved for white, male American citizensExecutive Order 8802
“Victory Suits” and the “Zoot Suit” Race RiotsJapanese subs bomb California coast/oil refineries
West Coast Japanese moved to inland internment camps
German and Italian immigrants were restricted from travel, loss of property, internment camps
American Life During War
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Wages and prices rise b/c of demandOffice of Price Administration and Civilian
Supply (OPACS) and Office of Economic Stabilization (OES)Economy regulated better than in WWI
Rationing of supplies and resourcesVictory GardensOffice of War Information (OWI)Most Americans believe in reasons for war,
sacrifice
Daily Life In Wartime America
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Germany kills 6 million Jews, 5 million othersGypsies, handicapped, homosexuals, Slavic
peoplesNazis pass laws restricting the rights of JewsKristallnachtMany Jews try to leave for other countries—
rejected The St. Louis Affair
Rejected by the U.S. & Cuba, ship returns to Europe
The Final SolutionConcentration camps/extermination camps
Germany & the Jewish Persecution
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