World War II A Look at the Home Front, and the Tuskegee

Airmen

oBJECTIVEs

By the end of the lesson, SWBAT explain the changing role of women, African Americans, and the media during World War II.

By the end of the lesson, SWBAT explain how the Great Depression ended.

lightning round Review!It is 1941, America has entered the war on what side?

Why did America enter the war?

Who was on the Axis Power side?

Where was the war being fought?

Who was the leader of Germany?

Who was the leader of Japan?

Who was the leader of the U.S.A?

thE HOME FRONT

While many young U.S. men went to fight the war in both the Pacific (Asia) and in Europe, people who stayed back in the U.S. had a lot to do.

Who do you think was back in the United States?

What did these people have to do?

END OF THE DEPRESSION

A lot of the factories that closed during the Great Depression had to reopen!

The factories had to make supplies for the war so businesses started to become busy once again.

The Great Depression really ended with the start of World War II!

But who was going to work in the factories?

The Home Front

A lot of women were back in the United States.

Like in World War I, women had to work in the factories during the war.

Why did women have to work in the factories?

What did the women do in the factories?

Women in the War

Women made all sorts of things for the war:

weapons, tanks, airplanes, boats, canned foods, clothing, medical supplies and much more!

Propaganda

The U.S. needed the women to work in order to win the war!

How did the U.S. Government and businesses get the word out that women were needed to help out in factories and the war effort?

Propaganda

Propaganda!

The most famous piece of propaganda from World War II is of “Rosie the Riveter”

Rosie the Riveter was this strong lady on advertisements who talked women into helping out in the war effort.

A riveter is a bolt that is used in construction, it holds things together

Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter became a symbol for female strength and determination!

The Home Front

Like in World War I, people living in the U.S. during the war had to ration, or limit the amount of food they ate, so they could save some and send it to the troops who were fighting in the war.

Propaganda

Propaganda was used to get people to conserve gasoline and rubber.

Why would they need to conserve (save) gasoline and rubber.

Culture

Culture was also changing in the 1940’s.

World War II was the first time, an African American group flew fighter jets in a war.

This group was known as the Tuskegee Airmen. They were based out of Tuskegee Alabama!

Tuskegee Airmen

Why was it a big deal that the Tuskegee Airmen existed during World War II?

Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen showed the world just how great African Americans can be, even in a time of Jim Crow Laws!

Conclusion

Women played a big role in World War II by working in factories on the home front.

Propaganda played a big role in the war.

People had to ration the amount of food that they ate.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African Americans to ever fly fighter jets in a war.