5/5/08 Ch. 25 HW

25.a (Mobilization on the Home Front)
1. Selective Service System: Expanded the draft and eventually provided another ten million soldiers to meet the armed forces needs.

2. Women: Women Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)- Women volunteers would serve in non combat positions in wartime.

3. Minorities: African/Native/Mexican/Asian Americans were restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods and reservations and were denied basic citizenship.

4. Manufacturers: the US government spent billions of dollars in national defense manufacturing.

5. A. Philip Randolph: President and founder of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters and the nation's most respected African American leader.
-He organized a march on Washington.

6. Office of Scientific Research and development (OSRD): Scientists brought into war effort.
-Relieved soldiers from from body lice/ created penicillin/ Manhattan Project (A-Bomb)

7. Entertainment industry: Started with propoganda to get people to join war effort.
-Eventually moved to musicals and romances to take the viewers away from the realities of war.

8. Office of Price Administration (OPA): fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods.

9. War Production Board (WPB): decided which companies would convert from peace time to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries.

10. Rationing: Establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essentials for the military.
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25.d (Farewell to Manzanar)
1. What were living accommodations like in the camp?
A family was assigned a Barrack about the size of a living room, which had and light bulb, and oil stove for heat, and some army issued blankets and mattress covers.

2. Why do you think the accommodations at Manzanar were so stark and crowded?
The place was only half finished being built by the time truck loads of Japanese Americans were being sent to the Barracks.

3. What incident from this excerpt demonstrates a lack of cultural awareness on the part of those running the camp?
The food servers expressed a lack of cultural awareness by putting apricots on top of a bowl of rice. The Japanese would never eat any kind of sweet food along side their rice.