WWII: The Homefront AP US History Paul Zuo How each group of Americans was affected on the homefront during

WWII African Americans Women Mexican Americans Japanese Americans There was still During the Great Depression, Mexican Americans Pearl Harbor hurt Japanese segregation for African women were typically not given also faced a lot of American reputation. Americans, both in the the opportunity to get jobs, for it prejudice and Americans dont fully trust military and in was rare for even men to get discrimination. Japanese Americans. work/housing. jobs. Despite continued That very philosophy changed The Bracero program Executive Order 9066 ordered segregation in the drastically during the WWII era. brought over the inception of internment military, African Women were patriotic for filling thousands of camps. American troops were in the labor shortages. They were Hispanic workers to treated better than they given jobs that were typically America to help out were in WWI. reserved to men. with industrial and agricultural labor. The Great Migration The female labor force caught up The newly Internment camps gave way continued and Northern quickly, for there were plenty of immigrated Mexicans for the relocation of thousands migration often sparked wartime propaganda supporting were also a big of Japanese Americans and a heated violence like the the labor. The American contributor to the lot of property was lost. Detroit gang attack in manufacturers supported the military forces during 1934 icon of Rosie the Riveter. the war. In 1941, FDR issued the While most of the women left The Zoot Suit riots of Many of the Japanese Executive Order 8802, their jobs after the war, the very 1943 evinced the Americans who were sent which banned role of women in the labor force underlying racial away to the internment camps discrimination against during the war effort changed tensions of Mexican were loyal native-born any race in defense the way the public attitudes of Americans in Los Americans who felt that their administrations. the female workforce. Angeles. freedoms were stripped. It was both heartbreaking and shameful. There was also the With the husbands out to war, There were, however, Korematsu vs. US ruled that Double V campaign, the mothers were often displaced plenty of job the internment camps were which sought to end both out of traditional family time. opportunities for constitutional because it was a the fascist governments Children were sent to federally Mexican Americans wartime emergency. of Europe and the racism supported day care centers. during the time and and unjust treatment of so life wasnt at a low African Americans standard. abroad. NAACP membership The assembly line efforts were Migrant workers Propaganda and pop culture more than tripled and the often tiresome and onerous. The became a vital part of of wartime demonized the Congress of Racial women worked day and night the Southwestern Japanese and it addressed the Equality formed. and their efforts would be vital economy Japanese Americans as to the success abroad in both the security risks. Pacific and the European theater