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California's long Pacific Ocean coastline provided the support needed for the Pacific War. California also supported the war in Europe. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, most of California's manufacturing was shifted to the war effort.
California's deserts became bombing ranges, her harbors became naval bases, her airports became air bases and infantry and tanks rumbled across her farm lands, orchards and deserts. During the course of the war California would acquire more military installations, by far, than any other state.
The exhibit was open from May 23, 2015 – April 29, 2016 at the California State Capitol Museum. The exhibit displays highlighted the effect World War II had on California’s infrastructure, its people, social justice; and how its effects impacted Californians after the war.
By war’s end, California had 140 military bases that spurred government spending in the defense industry during World War II, and which continued throughout the Cold War. The vast federal defense spending prompted continuous growth in other industries and manufacturing jobs.
On February 23, 1942, 69 days after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese submarine I-17 appeared off the coast of California north of Santa Barbara at the Barnsdall-Rio Grande Oil Field at Ellwood (today's Sandpiper Golf Course) and began shelling the oil and gasoline tanks located there.
Sep 1, 1989 · When the bloody raid came on Dec. 7, 1941, prompting the United States to declare war on the Axis forces, California had a mass anxiety attack.
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The Los Angeles metropolitan area grew faster than any other major metropolitan area in the U.S. and experienced more of the traumas of war while doing so. By 1943 the population of metropolitan L.A. was larger than 37 states, and was home to one in every 40 U.S. citizens.
