1940-Selective Training and Service Act (Draft) All males aged 21-36 to register for

military service First peacetime draft in nations history

GI – nickname for soldiers, sailors or aviators in the war. “Government Issue”

Not just men in the military

Approximately 340,000 women served in the U.S. military during World War II: Army: 140,000 Navy: 100,000 Marines: 23,000 Coast Guard: 13,000 Air Force: 1,000 Army and Navy Nurse Corps: 74,000

Excluded from combat positions

Some served doing traditional “women’s work” in military branches (i.e. cleaning and secretarial duties)

Many women became nurses, or used their nursing expertise to help in the war effort (i.e. Red Cross, military nursing units)

Office of War Mobilization Organized and collected resources to be

used for war Production of consumer goods stops Factories convert to war production

mode Pride and Patriotism in work

Evidence that those at home cared about what we were fighting for

Women were told to conserve in order to support the war effort Carry groceries instead of using car

Preserved tired rubber Grow more food (Victory Gardens)

Increased food production, self-sufficiency

Sew and repair clothing rather than buying new clothes Save cloth for the troops

Contribute to war bonds

“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression…The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way…The third is freedom from want…The fourth is freedom from fear.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union

Message January 6, 1941

Wartime Propaganda Office of War Information - Created in

1942 Posters and ads in newspapers,

magazines, radio commercials and movies to stir Americans’ patriotic feelings

“Don’t Let That Shadow Touch Them”Issued by the

Treasury Department

“United We Win”Alexander Liberman

1943

“Waste Helps the Enemy”

Vanderlaan

“When You Ride Alone You Ride With Hitler!”

Weimer Pursell1943

“Man the Guns, Join the Navy”

McClelland Barclay 1942

“Want Action? Join the U.S. Marine Corps!”

James Montgomery Flagg

1942

Enlist in the WAVESJohn Falter

More Nurses are Needed!

The “ideal women worker” – loyal, efficient, patriotic, pretty

A huge icon for women during World War II, and in American wartime propaganda

Inspired women to get involved in the wartime effort

Rosie the RiveterLyrics by Redd Evans and

John Jacob Loeb, 1942

“All the day long,Whether rain or shine, She's a part of the assembly

line.She's making history, Working for victory, Rosie the Riveter… …That little girl will do more

than aMale will do… …Rosie is protecting Charlie, Working overtime on the

rivetingmachine……There's something true

about, Red, white, and blue about, Rosie the Riveter.”

Norman Rockwell1943

Grow your own, Can your own

Make This Pledge: I Pay No More Than Top Legal

Prices

Anti-Japanese hysteria after Pearl Harbor. Many expected Japan to attack the West Coast.

120,000 Japanese-Americans forced to leave their homes and businesses.

Established schools, churches, recreational centers, newspapers and their own camp governments.

•What constitutes fair actions during times of war?

•Consider the extent of citizens’ rights in a democracy during wartime.

•To safeguard American security, can the government carry out actions that violate the rights of American citizens?

•Or may the Constitution never be violated even under wartime circumstances?

Japanese Internment Propaganda Video

As you watch the video, complete the video response sheet provided

Japanese Internment Rap

                                                                                                             

In time of war, is it acceptable for the United States government to suspend some of your civil liberties?

Or should the government never violate your Constitutional rights? Why or why not?

Present-day examples?