World War II had a massive impact on the American home front. Women and minorities played a larger role in the workforce as men went off to war and consumer sacrifices were expected. The government instituted war mobilization measures like rationing of goods and price controls to direct resources towards the war effort. However, this also led to the unconstitutional internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps based on their ethnicity alone.

1. World War II:
The American
Home Front

2. Evaluate the impact of
war mobilization on the
home front, including
consumer sacrifices, the
role of women and
minorities in the
workforce, and limits on
individual rights that
resulted in the internment
of Japanese Americans.

3. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941

4. The Situation: 1941
The Allies The Axis Neutral
Occupied
WAR

5. TOTAL

6. This
Means
YOU

7. • American
women
contributed to
the war effort by
working in
munitions
factories.
So…
YOUR
Especially you ladies…

8. • American
women
contributed to
the war effort by
working in
munitions
factories.
YOUR

9. • American
women
contributed to
the war effort by
working in
munitions
factories.
JUST

10. THE WAR
ECONOMY
Government
Regulation of:
• Production
• Pricing
• Rationing

11. War Production Board
Peacetime
industries
converted to
war production

16. ROSIE
the Riveter
Symbolic of
Female
Munitions
Workers

18. FDR’s Executive Order 8802 prohibited racial
discrimination in the defense production industry.

19. Office of Price
Administration
Government-controlled
Price Ceilings

21. Patriotic
Duty

22. R
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26. Ration Stamps

27. Ration Stamps

31. Office of War Mobilization
Coordinated all
government war-
related agencies
James F. Byrnes Room
(Clemson University)
James F. Byrnes (SC)
“Assistant President”

35. Still from You’re A Sap, Mr. Jap (1942)
LINK

38. Japanese-American
Internment

39. Internment Camps
Former horse stalls converted for temporary occupation
by Japanese American internees at Tanforan Assembly
Center, San Bruno, California, 1942 (Wikipedia)

40. Korematsu v. United States
Fred Korematsu Internment of
Japanese-Americans
DOES NOT violate
the Constitution.

41. Korematsu v. United States
Justice Hugo Black, a former
Klan member, delivered the
opinion of the Court.

42. President Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Better Late Than Never
REPARATIONS

43. In a Nutshell…SHUT UP
PRODUCE
SACRIFICE
HATE
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