End of WWII and WWII on the Home front Vocab Flashcards

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Island Hopping?

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Going towards Toyko to seize nearby islands to deprive them of supplies and make airplane bases for the US

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Kamikaze?

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Suicide pilots from Japanthat could plunge into ships in hopes of sinking them
They were generally teenage boys and it was a great honor to their families

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Braceros?

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Enployment increased for Mexicans to work as farm laborers

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Zoot Suit Riots?

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Thousands of off duty mexican soldiers and sailors joined with hundreds of civilian whites assulted Hispanics, Blacks, and Filipinos in Los Angeles

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Rationing?

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Created by the OPA
Rationed sugar, cheese, gasoline, rubber, and coffee
National speed limit was 35 mph
Recycle as much to build more military supplies

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Office of War Mobilization?

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If govt wanted production to increase, then they must regulate and direct industrial production

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Office of Censorship?

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designed to promote patrotism and influene public opinion
eamined letters going overseas
causualty figures from pearl harbor were not initially reported
photos of american war dead prohibited for a while
Later the media was encouraged to publicize accounts of Japanese autrocities vs US

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A Philip Randolph?

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Blck leader who organized a march on DC in 1941 to pressure FDR to issue an executive order to ban discrimination industries
Executive Order 8802

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War Production Board - WPB?

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produced more military goods than Germany, Italy, Japan combined
Conversio of economy from civilian to military suplies

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Office of Price Administration - OPA?

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in charge of rationing and was empowere to establish price controls to counteract the war time inflation
Created ration books

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Executive Order 9066?

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110,000 JA were relocated into internment camps
2/3 were US citizens
Most camps were in the remote parts of the west

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Rosie the Riveter?

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Iconic image of woman dressed in overalls who became the symbol women in the male workforce launched by the govt

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American Civil Labor Union?

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Tries to get the liberties back from the 9066

Tries to get liberties back when they are infringed on

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Congress of Racial Equality (1942)?

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Created Civil Rights Organization during WWII that comitted itself to using nonviolent techniues to end racial segregation

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15
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What was the Supreme Court case that got rid of internment camps?

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Korematsu v US

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16
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Manhattan Project?

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Used University professors to create and test the first atomic bombs

17
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National War Labor Board - NWLB

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Imposed stopping the increasing wages

18
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Yalta Conference?

A
Big 3 meet again
Germany accepts defeat
Decided UN continues
UNITED NATIONS: continued 
MOST CONTROVERSIAL: EASTERN EUROPE - especially POLAND
Free Elections: STALIN promised
USSR: desired a “buffer zone” from Germany
ROOTS OF COLD WAR
19
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Fair Employment Practices?

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Created by FDR after Randolph marched on DC and gave people equality without discrimination in the defense industry

20
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Potsdam Conference

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GERMANY = DEMILITARIZED
NAZI influence = PURGED from German Culture
UNDECIDED:
Reparations
Occupation of Germany
RESULT = TENSION INCREASED B/T WESTERN ALLIES & USSR

21
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Battle of Bulge?

A

Hitler;’s last attempt to win the war 12/16/44-1/25/45

22
Q

VE Day?

A

Victory in Europe

5/8/45

23
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VJ Day?

A

Victory in Japan

9/2/45

24
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D-Day?

A

6/6/45
Normandy landing
Liberated Paris

25
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War Bonds

A

debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war

26
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Code Talkers?

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Navajo

Use their languange so that Germany and the axis couldnt decifer allied messages

27
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Office of War Mobilization?

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coordinate all government agencies involved in the war effort

28
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Office of Information?

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consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad

29
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Victory Gardens?

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were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany

30
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Iwo Jima?

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Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marine
japan fights thee Last Man

31
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Okinawa?

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Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War.
japan fights thee Last Man

32
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Atlantic Charter?

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A broad war aims statement from Churchill and FDR

33
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Battle of Stalingrad?

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Nazis on defensive war for the rest of the war