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Good Morning!. NVC HOT ROC: Rosie the Riveter Social and Economic Changes at Home Japanese Internment Essential Question : What social and economic changes occurred on the home front?. HOT ROC: Rosie the Riveter.

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  1. Good Morning! • NVC • HOT ROC: Rosie the Riveter • Social and Economic Changes at Home • Japanese Internment Essential Question: What social and economic changes occurred on the home front?

  2. HOT ROC: Rosie the Riveter • What economic and social changes in the United States does the “Rosie the Riveter” campaign represent?

  3. Other Economic Changes at Home • War Bonds: Citizens “buy” bonds, giving money to the government • War Production Board: manage the mobilization of civilian industries to make military equipment • Tax Increases: needed to pay for increased government war spending • Rationing: limited distribution of food, gasoline, etc • PriceControls: scarcity of goods = high demand, government decides price to prevent big increases • Great Depression Ends: demand for military supplies revives the economy, incomes and jobs increase

  4. Japanese-Americans • Executive Order 9066 • Interment of “enemy aliens” aka ALL Japanese-Americans • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrXht2h4BrU • Why did we intern Japanese Americans? Do you find this reason convincing? • Korematsu v. United States: Supreme court says internment is okay • “the ugly abyss of racism”—Justice Murphy

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