Reading Questions for World War II at Home
Kennedy, Chapter 35

You need to take notes based on the following questions and bring to class on Thursday, March 17^th. Your notes will be checked at the beginning of class in the lab.

World War II at Home

• Why did FDR adopt a Hitler-first strategy when the country favored a Japan-first strategy?
• List advantages/disadvantages of US involvement in WW II
• What were internment camps? How did the U.S. government justify these?
• NOTE: I will show you pictures of these when I return
• Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
• What did the War Production Board do?
• Office of War Mobilization?
• “Cost-plus system”
• Office of Price Administration
• Labor Unions and Smith-Connally Act
• Why did the New Deal have to end? How and why did FDR’s administration have to change its usual stance on business and labor?
• How did women serve in the military? At home?
• How did the military obtain necessary enlistments?
• How did the economy of the South benefit from WW II?
• Second Great Migration of Blacks: “Double V”; CORE (1943); FEPC; Smith v. Allright (1943); race riots
• Native American participation?
• Results of WW II for the US economy and society?