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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