Mins Objectives Students will be able to1 describe life on the home front 2 analyze a video clip for key information Homework Open link posted on website and readtake notes Twocolumn underlining highlighting etc ID: 650571
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Do Now: Grab a worksheet from the front and start working with a partner (15 Mins)
Objectives: Students will be able to...(1) describe life on the home front (2) analyze a video clip for key informationSlide2
HomeworkOpen link posted on website and read/take notes (Two-column, underlining, highlighting, etc.)
DUE FRIDAY
If link does not work, find another article about the American Home Front and do the same thing. Slide3
Powerful Home Front Essential Questions
How might a powerful economy help the US?
What are some advantages?Slide4
Converted the Economy & Industry
Industry won the War
Cost-Plus
Contracts: More equipment produced, the faster it was produced, the more money company made
Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC): Gave loans to companiesSlide5
“The greatest advantage the US enjoyed on the ground in the fighting was…the Jeep and 2.5 Ton truck. These are the instruments that moved and supplied US troops in battle, while the German army…depended on animal transport….The US, profiting from the mass production achievements of it’s automotive industry…had mobility that completely outclassed enemy” Slide6
Liberty Ships:Main cargo shipsEnormous advantage
Welded not riveted
Hard to sinkSlide7
Creating an ArmySelective Service and Training Act – Draft Overwhelmed facilities
“GI’s” – Gov. Issued
8-Week Basic Training
off to war
“Special Sense of Kinship” Slide8
Increased role of women in factories and workforceSlide9Slide10
Manpower –Educational Documentary (1943)
Please write down 3 CCQ’s on the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
FAW_zwX9m80Slide11
Do Now: Read "An American Story" on page 749, and answer the following question:
How did Laura Brigg's outlook on
life
change with the beginning of World War II? How is this different than before? Slide12
Objectives: Students will be able to...
(
1) transfer knowledge of American Home Front to
propaganda poster
(
2) describe life on the home front
Homework:
Finish reading the article posted on the
website
FYI – Midterm Review Sheet is on Website under USII Main PageSlide13
Propaganda Played a Large Role AgainSlide14
Rationing
Limiting availability of products
Blue Points and Red Points
Red – Processed foods
Blue – Meats, fats, and oils
Used these coups when buying productsSlide15Slide16Slide17
Office of Price AdministrationFDR put a control on prices and wagesKept inflation under controlSlide18
Victory Gardens
People grew their own gardens
Scrap Drives heldSlide19
War Bonds (E-Bonds)Slide20Slide21
“V” for Victory
Despite the hardships, Americans believed in the cause of the war! Slide22
Create your Own Propaganda PosterChoose one of these WWII topics we’ve discussed:
Joining the Army
Rationing
Buying War Bonds
Wage control
“V” for Victory
Victory Gardens