notes

1. The Homefront
During WWII

2. Rationing
• Office of Price
Administration
limits availability
of essential
items
• Meat, sugar,
coffee, canned
foods, fuel,
nylons, & shoes
all require ration
coupons

3. • Oversees
transition to a
wartime
economy
• “Rosie the
Riveter”
symbolizes
female
workers
War Production Board

4. Propaganda
• Promotes
conservation
• Buying of war
bonds
• Any message
to keep
Americans
focused on the
war effort

5. African-Americans
• Serve in
segregated
units
• Face continued
discrimination
• Begin the
Double V
campaign for
victory abroad
& at home

6. Japanese-Americans

9. Executive Order 9066
• Issued by
President FDR in
1942
• Creates military
camps in the west
like Manzanar
• Japanese
Americans
relocated to
internment camps

13. Before & After Japanese Internment

16. Japanese Internment
• All Japanese-
Americans on
the West Coast
• Most were American
citizens
• 120,000 imprisoned
until 1945

20. The Zoot
Suit Riots
• Los Angeles in 1942
• Wool among goods
rationed during wartime
• War Production Board
bans “zoot suits”
• Baggy “zoot suits” were
popular among Latino
young men

21. The Zoot Suit Riots

22. • Clashes begin
between
stationed
servicemen &
Latinos
• Explodes into
riots in LA and
other cities
The Zoot Suit Riots