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Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt issue an executive order banning discrimination in all industries with federal contracts?
Because A. Philip Randolph threatened to hold a March on Washington
What was the Manhattan Project?
A top secret government project to develop an atom bomb before Nazi Germany did.
What ultimately ended the Great Depression?
Deficit Spending on World War II
What caused the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots?
White sailors thought that Mexican American zoot suited youth were avoiding military service.
Racist newspapers published stories about the Sleepy Lagoon murder and blamed "pachucos" for a crime wave
Why were Japanese Americans interned on the West Coast but not in Hawaii?
Hawaii was a multi-ethnic, multi-racial society and depended on Japanese American labor
Hawaiian society was more tolerant than the largely white West Coast.
What did Japanese Americans do to fight their internment?
Many of the young men voluntarily signed up to join the military to disprove racist assumptions about their loyalty.
