Based on the following sources and your knowledge of history, how did World War II transform
life and work in the United States? What was the impact of mobilization, the wartime economy,
and Japanese American internment? Did the war increase or decrease opportunities or both?
Images: Tuskegee Airmen, Office of War Information Photo (1941)
Lets Go Get Em! U.S. Marines Beck Engraving Co. (1942)
Bradshaw Crandall, Are you a girl with a star-spangled heart? Recruiting
Publicity Bureau, US Womens Army Corps Recruiting Poster (1943)
J. Howard Miller, We Can Do It! Westinghouse, War Production Coordinating Committee Poster (1942)
Documents: Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994)
A. Phillip Randolph and Franklin Roosevelt on Racial Discrimination in the
Defense Industry (1941)
You’re Going to Employ Women Pamphlet and Letter (1943) [not in reader]
