1. THE PHILIPPINES
Essential Questions:
• How did the U.S. respond to World War II?
• What was the Bataan Death march?
• What was Executive Order 9066?
• What was the Battle of Midway?
2. Selective Service
After Pearl Harbor
eager young
Americans jammed
recruiting offices
Some fought for
country
Many looked for
excitement
3. Industry Responds to War
Automobile production for
private use stopped
Plants were shutdown and
retooled to produce tanks,
planes, boats, and
command cars
Across the nation factories
were converted to war
production
Mechanical pencil
manufacturers produced
bomb parts
Bedspread makers
manufactured mosquito
netting
4. Labor Responds
More than 6 million
new workers entered
the labor field…all
women
Many worked in the
manufacturing of
planes, tanks, and
other war items
2 million minority
workers were hired
5. War Bonds
In an effort to control inflation the
Treasury began marketing the
Series E bonds
Government used the hype of the
war to market the bonds
They were a way to raise money
for the war
In fact they were used to remove
money from the economy
Known as quot;war bondsquot;, quot;war
loansquot;, quot;victory bonds“
The names were meant to
appeal to a sense of patriotism
6. Bataan Death March
Took place in the Philippines
in 1942
Later labeled as a Japanese
war crime
60-mile march that occurred
after the three-month Battle of
Bataan
The march, involved the
forcible transfer of 76,000
American and Filipino
prisoners of war
They marched continually for
nearly a week in tropical heat
7. Bataan Death March
Characterized by wide-
ranging physical abuse
and murder
Beheadings, cut throats
and casual shootings
were the more merciful
actions
Others suffered bayonet
stabbings, rapes,
disembowelments, rifle
butt beatings
Death toll was between
6 and 11 thousand men
8. Executive Order 9066
A presidential executive order issued
by Roosevelt on February 19, 1942
Sent ethnic groups to internment
camps
Did not name any nationality or
ethnic group
Was used against those with
quot;Foreign Enemy Ancestry“
Japanese, Italians, and Germans
Led to the Japanese American
internment
Some 120,000 ethnic Japanese
people were held in internment
camps for the duration of the war
9. Battle of Midway
Took place in June 1942
Exactly six months after
Pearl Harbor
U.S. Navy defeated the
Japanese Navy attack
against Midway
The Japanese attack, like
Pearl Harbor, had similar
aims
To eliminate the United
States as a strategic
Pacific power
10. Battle of Midway
American codebreakers were
able to determine the date
and location of the attack
Four Japanese aircraft
carriers and a heavy cruiser
were sunk in exchange for
one American aircraft carrier
and a destroyer
The Japanese hoped a
demoralizing defeat would
force the U.S. to negotiate an
end to the Pacific War
Japanese losses permanently
weakened the Japanese
Navy
