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Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945

World War II: Mobilization

Explain how war production ended the Depression, how mobilization opened jobs to women and minorities, and why it also brought internment and racial conflict.

Topic 7.12 · 14 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01The arsenal of democracy: how production won the war and ended the Depression
  2. 02Women in the war economy
  3. 03African Americans: jobs, migration and the fight against segregation
  4. 04Mexican immigration and contradictory policy
  5. 05Japanese American incarceration and civil liberties
  6. 06Worked examples
  7. 07Where students lose points
  8. 08On the exam

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