Although World War II was fought on the battlefields of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, American farms and factories also helped win the war. As the United States mobilized its resources for combat, the entertainment industry helped sustain morale. For Japanese Americans the war resulted in confinement in remote camps. For African Americans, Mexican Americans, and women, the conflict brought both new opportunities and reminders that discrimination and inequality still existed in American society. (p. 407, 16.2)
Your Assignment:
1.) How did the United States mobilize for war?
2.) Why were Japanese Americans interned during the war?
3.) What gains did African Americans and Mexican Americans make during the war?
Due: Sunday 4/19/09 by 11:59p.m.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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The United States mobilized for war by increasing production, expanding government control of the economy, and raising an army. Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were interned in relocation camps because of prejudice and war. The United States didn't want to take any chances with disloyalty after Pearl Harbor. African Americans and Mexican Americans won better factory jobs during the war but continued to fave widespread discrimination. Also they helped in the military effort.
ReplyDeleteThe United States mobilized for war by increasing production, expanding government control of the economy, and raising an army.
ReplyDeleteThe Japanese Americans living on the west coast were interned into relocation camps because of prejudice and because of war hysteria. The japanese americans living in mostly Washington, Oregon, and California had long suffered racial discrimination, and many vocal politians persuaded the federal government to remove the people of japanese descent. They were ordered to detention camps in Wyoming, Utah, and other states.
Even though African and Mexican Americans still faced wide spread resentment, they had oppotunities during the war. They both served in the war. And Mexican Americans helped meet home front labor needs.This brought about better factory jobs for both. But both still faced a high level of disrimination.
1.)U.S. mobilized for war by increasing production, expanding government control of the econommy, and raising an army.
ReplyDelete2.)Because of prejudice and war hysteria, Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were interned in relacation camps.
3.)African Americans and Mexican Americans won better factory jobs during the war but continued to face widespread discrimination.
1) The united states first mobilized by calling for more money to be devoted to military production. then had the economy switched from peacetime to wartime economy.
ReplyDelete2) Japanese Americans were interned because after Pearl Harbor, widespread fear of information leaks to japan from the US had many american citizens targeting japanese orients.
3) They were considered to be a part of the war and weer given recognition becasue of thier parts and duties served.
1. After pearl harbor America turned form peacemaker to wartime economy. And they set out for revenge.
ReplyDelete2. They were interned because they didn't want them to sneek out to japan and tell what the U.S. is up to.
3.They were allowed to fight.
1.By increasing production, expanding government control of the economy, and raising an army.
ReplyDelete2.Because of prejudice and war hysteria.
3.They got better factory jobs, and they got the chance to sever their country
1.) The united states mobilized for war by having a booming production of war items like planes, tanks, jeeps and guns. Also, by expanding the government and getting it more involved.
ReplyDelete2.) Japanese Americans interned during the war because of prejudice since it was the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor. They prevented them from becoming citizens, and restricted the jobs they could hold.
3.) The gains that African Americans and Mexicans made were that some of their job restrictions were abolished and they were given more opportunities to work. Many became farmers or worked in factories.
The United States mobilized for war by switching from a peacetime to a wartime economy. Between 1940 and 1945, U.S. war plants produced millions of planes, tanks, jeeps, and guns. Shipbuilders produced thousands of ships, creating a powerful navy and merchant marine. The Japanese Americans were interned during the war because of prejudice and war hysteria. They were interned in relocation camps. African Americans and Mexican Americans made some gains during the war. They won better factory jobs during the war but still continued to face widespread discrimination. They received these jobs because they weren’t as educated to get higher jobs, yet they were needed to do physical labor jobs to produce supplies for the war.
ReplyDeletethe Us modalized their economy for war by turning alot of their factories into places to make war time goods.
ReplyDeleteJap Americans were inturned because the americans were scared that they would group up with the japs who were planning on coming our way and wanted to take us over so we as americans took them away from the coast to were they could sneek out to help.
the mexican american and african americans got more work in theses factories because the white man was out to war and they needed people to work to make war goods
Posting my comment late. America mobilized for war by training large amounts of troops but primarily we chenaged our econemy to a war time econemy and made many factories built war time materials. Japanese Americans were put in internment camps because America was afriad they were spying for the Japanese.
ReplyDeleteMexican and African Americans got jobs working at the factories now used to make war time materials.