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Observations:

1. Many men left the workforce to join the army. So women joined the workforce and became 50% of the total workforce.

2. Many women discovered they can do jobs just as efficiently as the men could.

3. Pearl Harbor had a deep impact on many americans beyond anything we may understand today except in comparison to the 9/11 attacks in NY.

4. People started to go a little crazy, which alcoholism increasing greatly especially in women.

5. After the son's death. "the way you dealt with something like that was pulling all the shades down and never coming out of the house. And so every time you walked past that house, the whole idea of death was brought home to you "

 

 

Observations

 

 

1. A large percentage of the Labor that was done in rebuilding Pearl Harbor was done by Japanese workers that made up 90% of carpentry, transportation and other fields involved in the reconstruction. So how can we imprison Japanese Americans, in paranoia, that they could be spies or be tied to mainland Japan, but yet still use them in labor to rebuild what the enemy Japanese destroyed? The world Irony comes to mind.

 

 

2. What about German Americans? If Germany had also declared war on the United States, then why was little done about potential German spies that could be tied to the Nazi party? While some German immigrants were locked up as well, millions of them were allowed to freely live in the United States. It seems a bit hypocritical to do such a thing that contradicts the goal that imprisoning Japanese Americans was supposed to accomplish.

 

 

3. An American is an American regardless of cultural background. By separating the Japanese Americans from American society and violating their rights in not just imprisoning for them for no crime but for completely uprooting their lives, we directly violated the rights given to them by the constitution. They were not formerly treated with as much segregation as other minorities, but the attack on Pearl Harbor further reinforced the hostility from whites that was already in place against Japanese. After the attack, Japanese were treated with the same kind of segregation that African Americans had been faced with.

 

 

4. Japanese Americans were a large part of agriculture in the United States. The article I read online states "The head of the California Grower-Shipper Vegetable Association told the Saturday Evening Post: If all of the Japs were removed tomorrow, wed never miss them because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows."And we dont want them back when the war ends, either." This further supports my 3^rd observation while bringing in the agriculture fact that Japanese Americans were a big part of American farms.

5. The head of the FBI Hoover, reassured the attorney general that all suspects to be Japanese spies were already in custody (after the attack) and that a mass scale evacuation of Japanese Americans was not necessary, but the plan was still executed.

-- Edited by Tyler Allain on Monday 13th of April 2009 03:56:13 PM

Family



Women in the workplace increased 50% during the final months of the war.

I believe that after world war 2 is what started a revolution for women that they were just as useable in the workplace as men were. They realized they did not need men to take care of them.

One in every four retail transactions during the war was illegal since people couldnt live with things being rationed.

Kids felt the responsible of the war and sacrificed there own things like candy to help for the war.

People felt it was responsible to rush relationships, he rate of female alcoholism rose fivefold; arrests for female rose . The birthrate rose for the first time in two decades; the marriage rate went up, but the divorce rate rose, too. It was like people were drifting away from the ideal qualities they once had, Chivalry was dead.


-- Edited by Brittney(: on Monday 13th of April 2009 04:30:46 PM

Nick Fuller

5 Observations
1.  We blamed other countries for using propaganda, but in reality our country was using it too.
2.  People were using propaganda to make it seem like we were so far ahead in the war.
3.  No pictures of dead Americans were shown until 21 months into the war.
4.  Uncle SAm was even a form of propaganda to make people want to join the military.
5.  Somehow, Germans used propaganda to make it seem like the killing of minorities like Jews a positive thing.

Observations of Communication by news, and the Censorship of the news:

 

 

~~ The OWI Censored the news in a way that made the US soldiers sound valiant, brave, strong, and noble. They made them sound like even the most moronic operations were brave and wise. The deaths of U.S. Soldiers werent the focus of the news, but the deaths of Nazis and the Japanese were the focus. Much of the time the point of view of our news reels was for an American fighter plane or bomber, to show our might.

 

 

~~People got new 3 times a day via radio. Doesnt this seem awkward seeing as this was a WORLD WAR, ad I mean shouldnt people be updated hourly or something?

 

 

~~Obituaries were filled in towns with the deaths of their youths some of those boys never came home

 

 

~~News reels were voiced by a peppy actor who described horrendous tragedies with a smile and pep and pep


~~~the radio casters also talked in this peppy tone, why so peppy for war?

-- Edited by MitchellA on Monday 13th of April 2009 04:07:43 PM

Alesys Mosquea

 

 

·       A lot of women after the war had to go work because the men left the factories and the army needed supplies =for the war.

·       350,000 women were in the army Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WACs) the Navys Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES), the Army Air Corps Womens Auxiliary Service Pilots (WASPS), the Coast Guards SPARS and the womens branch of the Marines.

·       Millions of women left their home towns and were living on their own for the first time. They were earning their on money and they also learned that they can do the same jobs as men. For most of the women it was the first time that they were independent.

·       Families were asked to give up little luxuries like bobby pins to use the metal, chewing gum, gasoline for the trucks, tanks etc. To help the war which is called rationing .

·       Children were also had a big part on the war. They would collect and squashed cans  and they would gather milkweed for safety vests, unearthed tires for rubber drives and they would buy stamps  instead of candy to help with the bond drives.

·       During the war, 57% of those employed outside the military were women.

·       In the final months of the war, women in the workplace had risen 50% since 1940.

COMMUNICATION Letters and Diaries

 

1. Mail was indispensible, the war could not have been won without it. It helped to motivate the soldiers and it also helped to reassure the worried families of servicemen back home.

2. At first, delivery was slow and erratic. Too bulky to be given precious space aboard aircraft, sacks of mail were loaded into the holds of cargo ships and often took more than a month to reach soldiers.
3. In the late spring of 1942, the military began encouraging Americans to use V-mail, which was a simple but ingenious space-saving system initially created by the British. Letters were addressed and written on a special one-sided form, sent to Washington where they were opened and read by army censors who blacked out anything they thought might give useful information to the enemy, the letters were then photographed onto a reel of 16 mm microfilm. The reels each containing some 18,000 letters were then flown overseas to receiving stations. There, each letter was printed onto a sheet of photographic paper, slipped into an envelope and bagged for delivery to the frontline for the soldiers.

4. Strict censorship governed the letters servicemen sent home from overseas, and the men sometimes became angry under its restrictions. But they also censored themselves, careful to not give up too much information, but provided enough to keep their loved ones from worrying.

5. After surviving a 600 miles per hour dive plan crash Quentin Aanenson was haunted by the fear of mistakenly releasing fire on American or British troops and nearly died when his plane hurtled toward its target so fast that his instruments froze. The impact of this experience had overcome him and he began to write about this encounter to his girlfriend Jackie. He began writing in grave detail about this experience, he stopped and folded up the paper and put it away. He figured it would have been cruel to share this with the women that he truly loved.

everyone followed the news via: broadcasting, newspapers, newsreels

news let people feel like they were in the war

there were 3 main radio broadcasts in which people would always interupt their day to listen to the radio at that time to learn something new. you could follow the battles on a map if you had one.

the constitution is somewhat voided in times of war "Code of wartime practices for the american press" -gave instructions on what could/couldnt be aired

the lowest rank in the army, private, was the most important. similar to the show "dirty jobs" the privates are doing unwanted, sometimes nasty things, but neccessary. the private did everything to basic things he didnt want to do, to wielding a weapon defending america. you are only as strong as your weakest link and the private very well could be one of the strongest links in the army.

War Productions

1. Amerecan industry provided almost 2/3 of all the Allied military
2. The people's main concern was to produce material that would help win the war and bring their boys home; not how much money they was getting
3. Women stepped into the work force; blacks found many job oppurtunities
4. War production changed the American industry
5. Wartime production increased as citizens meet the demand for labor

Civil Rights - Minorities
Cody, Madelyn, Max

1. Almost a million African Americans entered the industrial labor force during the war. African Americans accounted for 25% of the workers in foundries and 12% in both the shipbuilding and steel industries. C.C.

 

2. Racial discrimination wasnt just limited to African Americans; it included Latinos, Native Americans, Filipinos, Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans, Japanese Americans, and even more minorities. M.P.

 

3. We didn't know what discrimination was. Bill Lansford. M.M.

 

4.      Many blacks who werent shown respect in this era for joining the military completely went against it, they felt as if they were risking there lives for those who dont care so they were going to do everything and their power to get away from it. C.C.

 

5. During the war, there was a shortage of agricultural workers because so many Americans joined the army or went to work in the defense industries. To deal with this problem, the US brought workers from Mexico into the country to work in the agricultural industry in exchange for food, housing, and money. In Sacramento, Mexicans were also brought in to work on the lands that were deserted by Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps for being considered political enemies. M.P.

-- Edited by mpounds on Monday 13th of April 2009 04:23:20 PM

Civil Rights Japanese Americans


Tyler Allain
2. What about German Americans? If Germany had also declared war on the United States, then why was little done about potential German spies that could be tied to the Nazi party? While some German immigrants were locked up as well, millions of them were allowed to freely live in the United States. It seems a bit hypocritical to do such a thing that contradicts the goal that imprisoning Japanese Americans was supposed to accomplish.

3. An American is an American regardless of cultural background. By separating the Japanese Americans from American society and violating their rights in not just imprisoning for them for no crime but for completely uprooting their lives, we directly violated the rights given to them by the constitution. They were not formerly treated with as much segregation as other minorities, but the attack on Pearl Harbor further reinforced the hostility from whites that was already in place against Japanese. After the attack, Japanese were treated with the same kind of segregation that African Americans had been faced with.

4. Japanese Americans were a large part of agriculture in the United States. The article I read online states "The head of the California Grower-Shipper Vegetable Association told the Saturday Evening Post: If all of the Japs were removed tomorrow, wed never miss them because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows."And we dont want them back when the war ends, either." This further supports my 3rd observation while bringing in the agriculture fact that Japanese Americans were a big part of American farms.

Ashley fermino
2."As far as I'm concerned, I was borm here, and according to the constitution that I studied in school. that I had I had The Bill of Rights that should have backed me up. And untill the very minute I go onto the evacuation train, I says,'It can be'. I says, 'How can they do that to an America?' " -Robert Kashiwagi

Nadia Mimoso
1.After Pearl Harbor the lives of the Japanese Americans living in Western America were going to be changed dramatically. More than 110,000 American Japanese were sent off to internment camps. The Japanese lost their homes, they were in financial burden and they had to move to these camps in the middle of the desert. The children were also taken out of school. They only had 3 days to evacuate.

and Alex Pereira

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5064.htm



At the peak of this war, the U.S. army ranked 39^th in the entire world, with 16 million men and women marching in.


War production factories ran around the clock, meaning 24 hours, 7 days a week, in the beginning of and in preparation for the war. During it, employees worked hard 12 hour days all week. That stayed for quite some time.



 During the war, economy was improving. Although the main focus was on war, economic specialists were beginning to notice a change. Money was becoming less of an issue, and jobs were coming easily to those who needed them.

A month after the Pearl Harbor incident, President Franklin D. Roosevelt quoted: Powerful enemies must be out-fought and out-produced; it is not enough to turn out just a few more planes, a few more tanks, a few more guns, a few more ships than can be turned out by our enemies. We must out-produce them overwhelmingly, so that there can be no question of our ability to provide a crushing superiority of equipment in any theatre of the world war.
                               Thus, stating that we needed to produce as much equipment, and as many weapons as humanly possible for this war. It was a huge deal to accomplish his goal of America being the strongest and most prepared army in this war, and he was willing to go through tremendous amounts of effort and hard work to get there.

5 Observations for War Production
- It was to show that the Americans could try and out produce the other side, they were making weapons that we could use.
- War production was very popular during this time. Some people that worked for this production went on union strikes.
-The popular company called Mobile was very much involved for the supplies for World War II.
- Also Mobile was used as a shipping port and for shipbuilding.
- Factories went around the clock and the economy also boomed as well.

second group

~~ The OWI Censored the news in a way that made the US soldiers sound valiant, brave, strong, and noble. They made them sound like even the most moronic operations were brave and wise. The deaths of U.S. Soldiers werent the focus of the news, but the deaths of Nazis and the Japanese were the focus. Much of the time the point of view of our news reels was for an American fighter plane or bomber, to show our might.

 

            -Mitch A.

 

News reels were voiced by a peppy actor who described horrendous tragedies with a smile and pep . the radio casters also talked in this peppy tone, why so peppy for war?

 

-Mitch a.

 

the lowest rank in the army, private, was the most important. similar to the show "dirty jobs" the privates are doing unwanted, sometimes nasty things, but neccessary. the private did everything to basic things he didnt want to do, to wielding a weapon defending america. you are only as strong as your weakest link and the private very well could be one of the strongest links in the army.

 

P.S.

 

. In 1942 a "Code of Wartime Practices for the American Press" was implemented to prevent any negative media of the war from reaching Americans.  I feel that our government was, in a sense, lying to their people by leaving out important information regarding their men.

 

            -Nora

 

all news that was to keep americans aware of what was going on had to pass through the Office War of Information

 

-Teresa

 

mre wrote:

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Source: http://www.pbs.org/thewar/, http://www.pbs.org/thewar/edu_overview.htm, http://www.pbs.org/thewar/downloads/PowerofStory8-30-07.pdf

 

Background: Every day in America today our country loses approximately 1,000 veterans of World War II.  What does this war mean to us today?  How should this story be taught to high school students?  Will there be a World War III?  If they are truly the greatest generation, how can we honor their struggle in our lives?   

 

Over 60 years ago, over 100 million people fought in this war from the majority of the worlds nations.  Its estimated that over 70 million civilians died along with 50 million soldiers.  The United States lost over 400,000 dead, but our shores were never invaded, our cities never bombed, our citizens were never made refugees.  Still, we were there.  The United States made the difference between a NAZI controlled world threatened by NAZI atomics, racial hatred and a global Holocaust and a world where people could choose freedom over fascism.  Now, we have to learn the story 

 

Monday  Assignment: (Source: http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home.htm)

·         PART I (30 Minutes) Individual Research

o    Form research teams.  We will use the jigsaw method in class. 

o    Students will divide themselves into the following groups by ID Cards: 1) war production, 2) communication: news, 3) communication: letters, 4) communication: propaganda, 5) family, 6) civil rights: Japanese-Americans, 7) civil rights: minorities. 

o    Each student will then collect 5 observations (not just facts) from their segment and webpage.  They must read the section completely, view the segments and images and click on the Search & Explore links for more information.

o    Students will post their observations to the forum.

·         Part II (30 minutes) Observation Sharing and Selection

o    Once this is done (in 30 minutes of research), students will get together in seven teams sorted by their ID cards.  As a group, they will share what they have learned and compile a list of 5 of the most significant observations from all possible observation choices.  Each observation should be initialed so students can claim their work for a grade. Students will then discuss the observations they left out.  Be ready to explain why these were not chosen.  (30 minutes)

·         Part III (20 Minutes) Reporting Out

o    Now form new groups.  Each group has a number on the back of their ID card.  Get together in that group and take turns reporting on your observations.  This requires talk and discussion.  Take notes on each of the groups reports.  Be able to cite at least two observations from each group.  Then ask questions of each other.  Well discuss the final results as a class.

 

Evaluation:  You will receive 50 points for your five observations.  You will receive an extra 10 points if you have an observation selected by the group.  This means that you should do your best to promote your observations over others.  Good luck.  You will receive 25 points for participating fully in Part II and 25 points for participating fully in Part III.  If time runs out in the class, your conversations and observations should be continued in the forum after school.

 Observations:

communications: letters and diaries

1. Soldiers who had been wounded wrote home as soon as they were able, hoping to counter the shock of the telegrams they knew their families had undoubtedly already received.

2. Strict censorship governed the letters servicemen sent home from overseas, and the men sometimes chafed under its restrictions. But they also censored themselves, careful to keep from worrying their loved ones back home.

3. Officers were required to read the enlisted mens mail and black out anything that might help the enemy.


4. Although it was forbidden for combat personnel to keep diaries, seaman secretly recorded his obseravtions of life aboard the light cruiser the USS Montpelier.

5. All the mens letter were censored pretty heavily and to make sure that they wouldnt give off any information on the missions.

 

Civil Rights



If you were even 1/16th part Japanese, you would be shipped off to one of the camps, all of which were located in remote desert areas

The living conditions that the Japanese had to bear at the internment camp were completely horrid and barely unlivable. The barracks that they were forced to live in were rickety, barely heated, unclean, poor quality and quantity of food, and surrounding the perimeter of the camp were guards in gun towers who shot all who were trying to escape.

It was two months after Pearl Harbor, that the executive order 9006 was signed by President Roosevelt to authorize the war department to designate military areas and exclude anyone from them whom it felt to be a danger.

After Pearl Harbor White American citizens turned their racism towards the Chinese instead of the African Americans. Whites wanted segregation, they were not allowed to even eat at white restaurants.

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