Chapter 35

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ABC -1 agreement 1941

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An agreement between Britain and the United States developed at a conference in Washington DC between January 29th - March 27th 1941 that should the United States enter war war two the two Nations and their allies would coordinate their military planning make a priority of protecting the British Commonwealth that would mean getting Germany first in the Atlantic and the European theater and finding more defensively than other military Front

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Executive order no. 9066 (1942)

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Order of President Franklin D Roosevelt authorizing the war department to remove Japanese "enemy aliens" to isolated internment camps. immigrants and citizens alike were sent away from their homes neighborhoods schools and businesses the Japanese internment policy was held to be constitutional by the United States Supreme Court and Korematsu vs United States.

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War production Board (WPB)

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Established in 1942 by executive order to direct all war production including procuring and allocating raw materials to maximize the Nationals war machines the WPB has sweeping Powers over the US economy and was abolished in November 1945 soon after japans defeat.

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Office of price administration (OPA)

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(1941-1947) a critically important wartime agency charged with regulating the customers economy through rationing scarce supplies such as automobiles ,tires, fuel ,nylon ,and sugar and buy curbing installations by selling feelings on the price of goods rent control as well and parts of the country overwhelm about war workers the OPA was intended after World War II ended to continue the fight against inflation but was abolished in 1947

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National War Labor Board (NWLB)

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Established by President Franklin D Roosevelt to act as an arbitration tribunal and mediate disputes between labor and management that might have led to war stoppage and therefore I undermined did the war effort the nwfp was also charged with adjusting wages with an eye to control inflation.

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Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act (1943)

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Pessimist worries about the effect that favor strict with have on war production this law allowed the federal government to see you and operate plants threatened by labor dispute and also criminalize strikes action against government runs companies

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WACs (Women's Army Corps)

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The women's branches of the US Army Navy and Coast Guard established during World War II to employ women and noncombatant jobs women that participate in the armed services in ways that up beyond their traditional role as nurses.

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Waves women accepted for volunteer emergency service

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The women's branches of the US Army Navy and Coast Guard established during World War II to employ women and noncombatant jobs women that participate in the armed services in ways that up beyond their traditional role as nurses.

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SPARS(U.S Coast Guard Women's Reserve)

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The women's branches of the US Army Navy and Coast Guard established during World War II to employ women and noncombatant jobs women that participate in the armed services in ways that up beyond their traditional role as nurses.

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Bracero program 1942

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Program established by agreement with the Mexican Government to recruit temporary Mexican agricultural workers to the United States to make up for wartime labor shortage in the War I fought with the program prices until 1964 by when it has sponsored 4.5 million border crossings.

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Fair employmenu practices commission (FEPC)

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threatened with a massive "Negro March on Washington" to demand equal job opportunities in war jobs and in the military, Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration issued an executive order forbidding racial discrimination in all defense plants operating under contract with the federal government; the FEPC was intended to monitor compliance with the Executive Order

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Congress of radical equality (core)

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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (1942) nonviolent civil rights organization founded in 1942 and committed to the "Double V"--victory over fascism abroad and racism at home; after WWII, this program would become a major force in the civil rights movement

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Code talkers

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Native American men who served in the military by transmitting radio messages in their native languages, which were undecipherable by German and Japanese spies

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Midway battle of

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(1942) a pivotal naval battle fought near the island of Midway on June 3-6, 1942; the victory halted Japanese advances in the Pacific

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D-Day

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1944) a massive military operation led by American forces in Normandy beginning on June 6, 1944; the pivotal battle led to the liberation of France and brought on the final phases of World War II in Europe

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V-day

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the source of frenzied rejoicing, May 8, 1945 marked the official end to the war in Europe, following the unconditional surrender of what remained of the German government

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Potsdam conference

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(1945) from July 17 to August 2, 1945, President Harry S. Truman met with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British leaders Winston Churchill and later Clement Attlee (when the labour party defeated Churchill's Conservative party) near Berlin to deliver an ultimatum to Japan: surrender or be destroyed.

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Manhattan project

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1942) code name for the American commission established in 1942 to develop the atomic bomb; the first experimental bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the desert of New Mexico; atomic bombs were then dropped on two cities in Japan in hopes of bringing the war to an end: Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945

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V-J victory in japan day

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August 15, 1945 heralded the surrender of Japan and the final end to World War II