1. America Prepares for World War
Two!
Japanese relocation camps,
Soviet Union joins the Allies, The
Draft in the U.S. …Life on the
Home front!

2. The U.S. wasn’t prepared to go into World
War 2 when Pearl Harbor was attacked!
• We didn’t have enough men in our army,
navy or air force to fight such big armies
as Japan, Italy and especially Germany!
• But the draft was one way to solve this
problem!
• Surprised young men soon received
letters informing them that they would
soon be training to head to Europe or
Japan to fight!

3. Soldiers had to say tearful
goodbyes to their families

4. Victory gardens were planted so more food
could be sent to the troops!

6. Posters told Americans to go to
work FOR their country!

7. America began to prepare for
WAR! Ships were built:

8. Car companies stopped making
cars and started making tanks!

9. World War 2 plane

10. All these new things being built put
out of work Americans suddenly
back to work!

11. As more men went off to fight,
women took their jobs!

12. Women answered the
challenge!

13. Food was limited by the U.S.
government. This is called
‘rationing’.

14. Ration books were issued

15. Even comics were propaganda
during the war to promote
patriotism!

16. How do you think the Japanese
Americans were treated after the attack at
Pearl Harbor?
Let’s see…

17. Japanese American families were
rounded up from their homes and
sent to camps in the middle of
nowhere.

18. A Japanese relocation camp in the middle of
the desert-in the middle of nowhere in
Arizona.

19. Japanese Relocation Camps in the U.S. during WW2

20. Japanese were herded onto trains and
buses away from their homes to live
somewhere they’d never been!

21. The U.S. government rounded up Japanese-
Americans by the thousands and forced them to
these camps!

22. They were given small ‘hut’ like
homes to live in.

23. Sometimes families lived in small
barracks.

24. They had very little space and no
privacy!

25. The camps were guarded and had
fenced limits.

26. Another sign from a camp.

27. These boys stand at a fence at a
Japanese ‘relocation’ camp

28. These little girls are inside a
relocation camp

29. They were given curfews (times to be in bed) but
occasionally they were allowed to have a dance
and stay up later

30. In WW2, black men and white men were
STILL separate. So…the black soldiers
were trained at different places.

31. The black pilots were trained here
in Alabama in a little town called
Tuskegee.

33. These were their planes

34. The Tuskegee airmen flew 1,500 missions against the
Germans in battles and NEVER lost a plane! They were
awarded more medals of honor than any other pilot group!

35. This is a modern replica of their
planes

36. President Bush salutes one of the few
remaining living Tuskegee airmen!

37. Today, the few remaining Tuskegee Airmen shows
his support for U.S. troops by visiting a training
base.

38. This jacket proudly displays a patch for
every battle the Tuskegee airmen fought in.