The Second World War
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Organizing for war – Total War – Government controls everything, citizens willing to help
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Mobilizing production – massive military orders pulled US out of Depression
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War Production Board – government takes over manufacturing
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Stops production of nonessentials – cars
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Wartime rationing after supply of rubber cut off by Japan’s invasion of Malaya
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Full employment led to inflation
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Office of Price Administration – regulated prices
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Labor unions increase in size
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Women – Rosie the Riveter, African-Americans enter workforce in masse
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Some strikes led to Government taking over industry – Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Law
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Propaganda – buy war bonds, support rationing, work harder
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Posters, movies, demonize/dehumanizes Japanese
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Roosevelt works with businesses – in capitalism “you have to let business make money”
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Internment of Japanese Americans – Executive Order 9066
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Moved for protection, but mostly fear of spying or aiding invasion
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Constitutionality upheld by Korematsu vs. U.S. case – acceptable during wartime
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- Spring '10
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- US History, World War II, AP US History, War Production Board, massive military orders, Create Massive Western
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