WWII: The Home Front

Ch 12.3

Monday, April 23, 2012

• Daily goal: • Understand the significance of Korematsu v

US, the Bracero program and Rosie the Riveter.

Rosie the Riveter

• Rosie wasn’t a real woman, but a symbolic of every woman who worked a war job.

Bracero Program

• The gov’t started the program to fix the labor shortage on farms by bringing Mexicans to the US as temporary workers.

Fair Employment Practice Commission

• A. Philip Randolph pressured FDR create the FEPC to ensure “there shall be no discrimination in employment of workers in war industries.”

Zoot Suit Riots

• Mexican Americans were attacked byZ• Rumors lead to riots breaking out between

sailors and zoot suiters all over the country.

Japanese-American Internment

• FDR signed an order which gave the War Dept the right to make any part of the US a military zone and remove anyone they wanted from it.

• Japanese-Americans were ordered to “relocate” to internment camps.

Korematsu v US

• Fred Korematsu refused to go the interment camps and sued the gov’t.

• The gov’t found that the relocation order was constitutional, because it was not based on race but “military urgency.”

Rationing

• Rationing became necessary to ensure there would be enough for the War.

• Buying rationed items required the cash plus a ration book coupon.

Victory gardens

• Americans were encouraged to grow Victory Gardens, which would leave more for the troops.

E Bonds pay for the War

• The gov’t sold E Bonds and raised income taxes to pay for the war.

Wages and Price Controls

• The OPA and OES were created to control wages and prices.

• The War Labor Board settled disputes to avoid strikes.