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9 Cards in this Set
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The Home Front |
Selective Service Act: -men ages 18-65 to register War Productions Board: -1/2 of factory production went to war effort Funding of WWII: -increased taxes -war bonds
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WWII & Women |
Women in the military: -WAC (Women's Army Corps) -WAVES (Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service) "Rosie the Riveter": -some women moved to new communities to work in aircraft, munitions and automobile industries -propaganda urged women to work in industry |
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WWII & African Americans |
Nearly 1mill. African Americans served in segregated units -Tuskegee Airmen: 1st African American aviators in the US army Double V Campaign: -victory abroad and victory at home (civil rights) |
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WWII & Native Americans |
Navajo volunteers were used as "code talkers" -Japan unable to crack their language used for military communication |
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WWII & Mexican Americans |
Bracero Program: -1942, need for farm labor led to US gov't issuing short-term work permits to Mexican workers -~150,000 Braceros worked in agriculture and RRs Zoot Suit Riots (L.A.), 1943 -white sailors and marines attacked Mexican-Americans -150 were injured; 500 Mexican-Americans were arrested |
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Japanese-Americans |
Executive Order 9006 -relocation of J-As on West Coast to internment camps Korematsu v. US: -Supreme Court upheld interment camps for J-As Significance: -during times of war, individual rights go down |
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The Atomic Bomb |
Manhattan Project: -headed by Oppenheimer Hiroshima and Nagasaki: -Aug. 6 & 9, 1945: US justification for using the atomic bombs: -to save American lives -demos teared power to the USSR -revenge for Pearl Harbor -belief that the Japanese would fight to the last man |
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Key Conferences During WWII |
Tehran Conference (1943): -1st meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin -Stalin wanted control of Eastern Europe and a divided Germany -Churchill wanted a free Eastern Europe Yalta Conference (1945): -Big 3 meet again -discuss plans for postwar Europe -Stalin agreed to free elections (soon went back on this promise) -divided Germany into 4 zones Potsdam Conference (1945): -demanded unconditional surrender of Japan |
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Impact of the War |
End to the Great Depression Post-war economic boom Demographic shifts -"baby boom" -growth of the "sunbelt" -African Americans move north End of isolationism Beginning of the Cold War |
