Week of March 20, Wednesday Lecture

I. World War II: A Great Divide

• Enter in a Depression...Exited in Prosperity
• From Isolation to Intervention
• Four Years of Upheaval

II. Defense Mobilization

IMAGE: Propaganda Poster

• Economic Impact
• Military Spending
• The Raw Figures

III. The Warfare State

• Administration
• Taxes
• Debt
• Draft
• Economic Controls

IV. Who Benefitted From The Economic Mobilization?

• Big Business
  IMAGE: Welding for the War
  IMAGE: Working on a Bomber
• Organized
• Farmers

V. Social Impact of the War

• The War And Women
  IMAGE: Rosie the Riveter
  IMAGE: Welder
  IMAGE: Jeep Assembly Line
  IMAGE: Douglas Aircraft Workers
• African-Americans
  IMAGE: First African American Aerial Combat Unit
  IMAGE: Military Mechanic
• Moving North And West
  IMAGE: Welders at Connecticut Shipyard
  IMAGE: Welders in Pennsylvania
• Double V Campaign
  IMAGE: Double V Logo
  IMAGE: A. Philip Randolph
• CORE
• The Dialectic of Social Change
• Wartime Prejudice

1. Chicanos
2. Japanese Americans
IMAGE: Racism Directed at Japanese Americans
IMAGE: Japanese Americans Arriving at Tule Lake
IMAGE: Main Street, Tule Lake
3. Anti-Semitism

VI. Mobilizing Public Opinion (Office of War Information)

IMAGE: Grow Your Own, Can Your Own
IMAGE: The United States and Our Allies
IMAGE: United We Win
IMAGE: Victory Garden
IMAGE: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

VII. "The Good War"

return to World War II and the Cold War

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