Transcript SCR PG 5

SCR PG 5
 December 7, 1941
“A date which will live in infamy”
Organizing the Economy
 War Production
Board- helped
factories shift from
consumer goods to
materials needed for
war (guns, ships,
aircrafts, etc.)
Rationing
 Rationing- Gov’t
limited the amount of
goods that
Americans could buy.
 *Provides more
resources for the
military*
Jobs for Women
 *Women worked
outside the home
because large
numbers of men had
entered military
service.*
 Office workers,
factory workers,
welders, bus drivers,
police officers, gas
station clerks, etc.
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Japanese Internment
Camps
 FDR feared that
Japanese Americans
living in California
and Hawaii might act
as spies and help
Japan invade the
U.S.
 Approx. 110,000
were forced to live in
internment camps.
1988 – U.S. Apologizes
 Pres. Ronald Reagan and Congress
passed legislature that granted any
survivor of the internment camps
$20,000.
 U.S. realized their actions were based on
war prejudice and war hysteria.
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