American Home Front Webercise

The documents will give you a better idea of the different people and perspectives of people around and in the Pacific Theater. There are many different resources that will help you to gain a first person perspective of how life was in America during the war. Japanese Americans Use these sources to answer the questions below. American reactions to Japanese attack. http://wwii-homefront-7-8.wikispaces.com/Japanese+Internment+Camps+(BM,LV,TK) Read Norman Minetas story and consider the questions provided in the presentation http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/ahf/mineta/index.htm Here is the official document from the president giving the order http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=74&page=transcript 1. What language was used when addressing the Japanese Americans in the document? 2. How would you feel if this happened to you? 3. Are any groups of people today still excluded from society? If so, How? Women At Work These documents give perspective of what life was like for women before and during the war. Use these sources to answer the questions below. http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/education/resources-by-state/images/wwii-get-itover.pdf http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/education/resources-by-state/images/wwii-flyer.pdf http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/education/resources-by-state/images/wwiiwomanpower.pdf 4. How did men see working women at this time? 5. What were some of the attitudes that women had about entering the workforce? 6. How did society treat women during this time that is different from today? 7. What Language (words) do these documents use to describe the women workers? How has the language changed since then? African American Work Force Before the civil rights movement there were still many who saw African americans in a negative light. Use these sources to answer the questions below. http://www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/homefrontstudy.pdf http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/#home 7. Comment on how three pictures above are signs of change since the end of the civil war. Include the number of the picture, a short description, and how it was an example of change in society. African American Soldiers Tuskegee Airmen Use these sources to answer the questions below.

http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/social/african_americans/ http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/explore/Summary_of_Tuskegee_Airmen_History.pdf 8. What challenges did the African American soldiers face that White soldiers did not? 9. What changes were made after the war to accommodate the African American soldier? 10. How did these changes help? Could more be done? How? Find your own sources and link them in your answer document. Look up sources in Google to find useful information and pictures for your project. Use Key Words to increase the chances of a successful search. Example of Key Words are: Japanese American Internment Tuskegee Airmen African American Workers Women Workers Adding WWII or WW2 to the end of these searches will increase your chances of a good search After finding a resource that is not one of the ones listed above, write a paragraph telling me why its a good resource! Some tips for searching: Avoid .com sites, they are generally commercial in nature and will sensationalize facts to increase web traffic. Refine your search terms and try again Use information gathered from the documents to come up with a specialized search for something specific. More tips for internet searching can be found on Mr. Whites Homepage