25.4 The Home Front

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Holland US History II, MATES 2026

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Opportunity during the war (examples)

  • 1.2% unemployment (1944)

  • farmers prospered

  • women enjoyed gains in new fields

  • African Americans left the south for north cities

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GI Bill

  • Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

  • provided veterans $ for homes, businesses, educational, and training benefits

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James Farmer

civil rights leader, founded CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

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Congress of Racial Equality

org. to confront urban segregation in the North - sit-ins

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zoot suit riots (summer 1943)

week long riots in Los Angeles - hundreds attacked

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internment

  • confinement of 1444 Japanese Americans

  • FDR signed order requiring removal of people of Japanese ancestry from the western coast (1942)

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Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

pressured govt. for $ for property lost during the internment ($20,000 checks sent in 1990)

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Nisei

a person born in the US whose parents were immigrants from Japan