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World War II: DBQ: Was America’s Role in World War II crucial to the Allies eventual Success??
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Both prior to and during World War II, Americans mobilized to produce the material needed to win the war. Factories quickly converted from producing consumer goods to military goods; and each year the country increased and met its production goals. The following documents illustrate the role of American industrial output during the War.
Task:
Use your knowledge of the era, and documents A, B, C, and D to answer the questions at the bottom and the essential question
Background:
Both prior to and during World War II, Americans mobilized to produce the material needed to win the war. Factories quickly converted from producing consumer goods to military goods; and each year the country increased and met its production goals. The following documents illustrate the role of American industrial output during the War.
Task:
Use your knowledge of the era, and documents A, B, C, and D to answer the questions at the bottom and the essential question
Though African American soldiers lost many battles along the racial frontlines due to the persistence of racial inequality and violence in the immediate aftermath of World War I, their sacrifice, courage, and military accomplishments laid the foundation for a more racially-just society for all Americans.
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The following question requires you to write a coherent essay incorporating your interpretation of the documents and your knowledge of the period specified in the question. To earn a high score you are required to cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on your knowledge of the period.
It is often claimed that the major American wars of the last 150 years have resulted in the most important social and political gains of minorities and women. Evaluate this statement with regard to the experience of minorities and women during World War II. Use evidence from the documents and your knowledge of the period from 1941 to 1945 to compose your answer.…show more content…
.... Being an obvious racial discrimination, the order deprives all those within its scope of the equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. It further deprives these individuals of their constitutional rights to live and work where they will, to establish a home where they choose and to move about freely. In excommunicating them without benefit of hearings, this order also deprives them of all their constitutional rights to procedural due process.
Yet no reasonable relation to an `immediate, imminent, and impending' public danger is evident to support this racial restriction which is one of the most sweeping and complete deprivations of constitutional rights in the history of this nation in the absence of martial law...” Document E
Congressman Rankin, Mississippi, February 18, 1942:
“I know the Hawaiian Islands. I know the Pacific coast where these Japanese reside. Even though they may be the third or fourth generation of Japanese, we cannot trust them. I know that those areas are teeming with Japanese spies and fifth columnists. Once a Jap always a Jap.You cannot change him. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear....
Do not forget that once a Japanese always a Japanese. I say it is of vital importance that we getrid of every Japanese whether in Hawaii or on the mainland. They violate every sacred promise, every canon of honor
Yet no reasonable relation to an `immediate, imminent, and impending' public danger is evident to support this racial restriction which is one of the most sweeping and complete deprivations of constitutional rights in the history of this nation in the absence of martial law...” Document E
Congressman Rankin, Mississippi, February 18, 1942:
“I know the Hawaiian Islands. I know the Pacific coast where these Japanese reside. Even though they may be the third or fourth generation of Japanese, we cannot trust them. I know that those areas are teeming with Japanese spies and fifth columnists. Once a Jap always a Jap.You cannot change him. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear....
Do not forget that once a Japanese always a Japanese. I say it is of vital importance that we getrid of every Japanese whether in Hawaii or on the mainland. They violate every sacred promise, every canon of honor