Monday, February 23rd

• Take your seat• Take out your notebook• Open to notes “Dictators Threaten World Peace”

Precious Time Highlight and add in Cornell questions

Read over your notes and answer the following questions in 3-5 sentences.

Essential Question How did Americans react to events in Europe and

Asia in the early years of WWII? 1 paragraph SUTW

Today Agenda

• Precious Time / EQ

• Precious Time

• FN Discussion: • “Mobilization and the Homefront”

• Homework:• Read Ch. 10 Sec. 3 – quick reading quiz tomorrow

Mobilization on the Home FrontEQ 2:How did the United States react to the Japanese

attack on Pearl Harbor?

Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy

• Pearl Harbor, 1941• FDR put an embargo on Japan

•oil, iron ore, fuel, steel, and rubber

•by this time Japan was Germany’s ally

• Japan wanted to expand and wanted the US to stay neutral

• a decisive defeat would keep the US out of the war•Japan was still pretending to carry out diplomatic talks in DC

• six aircraft carriers brought 360 planes to attack the naval base

• Americans suffered heavy losses

•2500 killed, 8 battleships, 3 destroyers, 3 cruisers, 160 planes destroyed, 128 damaged

•the Arizona is still at the bottom of the harbor

• the US fleet was down for six months

•luckily the 3 aircraft carriers were not in the harbor

Pearl Harbor, 1941

Pearl Harbor, 1941

• “A day that will live in infamy”

• the US declared war on Japan and its allies

•Germany, Japan, and Italy declared war back

• the Doolittle Raid was sent in retaliation and to show we could reach Tokyo

•16 planes destroyed 100 buildings and killed 50 people

Mobilizing for War

• Office of War Mobilization• James F. Byrne made sure industry got the resources it needed

• unemployment disappeared•US production was double that of all the other allied nations combined

Mobilizing for War

• Office of Price Administration• Leon Henderson froze prices, wages, and rent

• kept inflation down• rationed essential foodstuffs and resources like gas• people were issued food stamps

Mobilizing for War

• War Productions Board, 1942• run by Donald M. Nelson (president of Sears-Roebuck), allocated resources for war effort

• shifted industry to wartime production

• FDR’s “arsenal of democracy”• 2.6 million machine guns• 40 billion bullets• 86,000 tanks• 76,000 ships (one in 4½ days)• 300,000 aircraft

• Ford Motor – 8000 B-52 Liberators

Selective Service

• the US began the draft in 1940

• all men 18 to 65 had to register

• more than 16 million served in the war

• 1,000,000 African Americans

• 350,000 women• 300,000 Mexican-Americans• 25,000 Native Americans

Office of War Information

• radio, print, and movies promoted the war and the purchase of war bonds

• Voice of America broadcasts spread news to foreign allies•Why We Fight•“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, and do without”

Essential Question 3:

• How did the war change America at home?