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Objective 10.03Describe and analyze the effects of the war
on American economic, social,
political, and cultural life.
Major ConceptsMajor Concepts
• The Homefront
• Suspension of Civil Liberties
• Suburbanization
• Transition to Peacetime
Terms• War Bonds: type of savings
bond used by combatant nations to help fund a war effort.
• Baby Boomers: babies born during sharp increase after WWII (late 1940s-late 1950s). Largest generation in U.S. history!
• Fair Deal: Truman's policy of social improvement, outlined in his 1949 State of the Union Address to Congress. Only one Fair Deal bill, an initiative to expand unemployment benefits, was ever enacted.
• G.I. Bill: (Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944) Provided financial and educational benefits for WWII veterans transitioning to civilian life (ex: unemployment, low interest for homes, education, etc.)
Terms• Korematsu vs. U.S. (1944):
Supreme Court decided government’s policy of evacuating Japanese Americans to camps justified on basis of “military necessity”. These people were later compensated by the U.S. (1980s).
• Levittown: 4 large suburban developments created in U.S.A. and Puerto Rico by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons.
• Northern Migration: continued movement of African-Americans north/west for jobs and freedom.
• Middle-Class: fast growing section of the population after WWII. Attributed to return of soldiers and the post-WWII economy.
Terms• Rosie the Riveter: cultural
icon of the U.S., representing approx. 6 million women who worked in factories producing munitions/supplies during World War II.
• Selective Services Act: 1917 law requiring men to register for the military, making them eligible to be drafted. Used during WWII.
• AFL-CIO: (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) an industrial labor union that fought for workers’ rights.
• Taft-Hartley Act: amended National Labor Relations Act of 1935. Overturned lots of rights won by unions under FDR’s New Deal.
Terms• WACS: approx. 150,000 American women served WACS during WWII.
1st women other than nurses to serve w/ the Army.• War Production Board: est. 1942 by FDR. Regulated
production/allocation of materials/fuel during WWII in the U.S. Rationed gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics.
• Rationing: limiting how much people are able to buy/consume, usu. during a time of war or shortage.
Terms• Japanese Internment Sites: 110,000 sent to 10 “relocation centers” in
Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arkansas, Arizona, and California. • Japanese American Museum: located near Little Tokyo in Los Angeles,
Calif. Celebrated Japanese American history.• Japanese Internment: Japanese Americans interned b/c seen as a
threat on the West Coast during WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Internment Camp in Jerome, Ark.