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Learning Module 3: Activity Two

World War II – A Photographer’s Dream[1]

General Information

Work on this activity will be between October 26 – November 2

You are required to complete all sections for this activity. Step one should be completed by November 2. A quiz on the material will be given at the start of class. Steps 2 & 3 will be completed in the computer lab.
Assessment: (40 points): 20 points for the quiz & 20 points for the computer lab activity & attendance.
The information learned will be the basis for the exam essay for this learning unit.

Learning Objectives:

To examine the use of propaganda and posters as well as speeches and articles by the Roosevelt administration during the Second World War.
To consider the contradiction between Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” and his actions toward the Japanese and Japanese Americans during the war.
To evaluate the ways that the Office of War Information engaged in propaganda in its posters and photographs during the Second World War.

· To explore the variety of resources that web-based technology provides such as video excerpts, interactive media, and educational websites.

Step One: Historical Context

Complete this section before class on November 2
The Information in this section will be the basis for a quiz on November 2.

Sources:

Definition of The Office of War Information (OWI): This agency was created in 1942 and served as an important U.S. government propaganda agency during World War II. During 1942 and 1943, the OWI contained two photographic units: (1) a section headed by Roy Emerson Stryker and (2) the News Bureau (the units were merged during 1943). The photographers in both units documented America's mobilization during the early years of World War II, concentrating on such topics as aircraft factories and women in the workforce.

Stryker's section at the OWI had been transferred from the Department of Agriculture's Farm Security Administration (FSA) in late 1942. Stryker's FSA section is the source of a world-famous collection of documentary photographs; the color images from the FSA photographic section are also available in electronic form. The OWI News Bureau had operated within the Office for Emergency Management (OEM) during 1941 and 1942; some photographs from the OEM period are included in this set.

Chapter 25 of the textbook and/or lecture information: Relevant information on Pearl Harbor , America’s shift from neutrality to an allied power, and issue of Japan and Japanese Internment.

Articles (Attached): Most are posted to the class website.

· The Four Freedoms (a section in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Annual Message to Congress – January 6, 1941

· Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, December 8, 1941

· Henry R. Luce, The American Century (excerpts)

· Japanese Internment – Eleanor Roosevelt, A Challenge to American Sportsmanship, October 1943

· Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Step Two: World War II – Photographer’s Dream and Demonizing the Enemy World War II.

This section will be completed on November 2 in the student computer lab.

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