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WACs (Woman's Army Corps)
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About 250,000 women served for this
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WAVES (Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the Navy)
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was woman's units for the marines, Coast Guard, and army air corps.
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Mobilization
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military and civilian preparations for war and the American Government created a number of new government agencies.
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War Production Board
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supervised the conversion of industries to war production.
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Office of Price Administration
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sets limits on consumer prices and rents to prevent inflation.
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National War Labor Board
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helped resolve labor disputes that might slow down war production.
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Revenue Act of 1942
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raised corporate taxes and required nearly all Americans to pay income taxes.
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rationed
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consumers could buy only limited # of them and Americans used government-issued books of ration coupons to purchase certain items, such as shoes, gasoline, tires, sugar, and meat.
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Office of War Information
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established by the government, promoted patriotism and helped keep Americans united behind the war effort.
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Rosie the Riveter
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encouraged women to take factory jobs.
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Tuskegee Airmen
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shot down more than 200 enemy planes.
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Benjamin Davis Jr.
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this man trained at the Tuskegee flying school and became the first African American General in the U.S Air Force.
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A. Philip Randolph
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demanded that government ban discrimination against African Americans in defense industries.
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Langston Hughes
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The riots inspired this man and his writing.
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Ira Hayes
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became a hero in the battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific.
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Mercedes Curia
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Was from Cuba and became the first Hispanic women officer in the Woman's Army Corps.
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Horacio Rivero
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became the first Hispanic Four-star admiral since David Farragut to serve in the U.S Navy.
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bracero
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this program stimulated emigration from Mexico during the war years.
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Nisei
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American citizens who had been born in the U.S.
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internment camps
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were crowded and uncomfortable and conditions were harsh that were for the West Coast Japanese Americans.
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