Quiz - WWII Home Front

four freedoms

• speech and expression

• fear

• religion

• want

volunteers made up

1/3 of the army

nicknames for soldiers

Government issued

reqs for serving

• men 18-36

• serve for 1 year

• good physical conditions

WAAC

army

WAVES

navy

SPARS

coast guard

WASPS

air force

women in war groups

• WASPS

• SPARS

• WAAC

• WAVES

double V campaign

winning war, and winning rights and respect at home

war impact on economy

• boosts economy

• ends depression

• unemployment drops

• earnings double

motivation to work in industrial field

money and patriotism

OSRD inventions

• sonar

• penicillin

• atomic bomb

manhattan project

osrd developing the atomic bomb

excecutive order 9066

forced relocation of japanese

issei

born in japan

nisei

born in US

FDR’s reasoning for japanese internment

national security

korematsu vs us issue

is japanese internment constitutional?

korematsu vs us result

ruled in favor of internment

korematsu vs us impact

paid each individual affected 20000 dollars and made it illegal

selective service system

• expanded the draft

War Production Board

• Rationed fuel and materials important for war

• oversee military production

• scrap drives

• convert industries to wartime production

• allocated raw materials

• closed non essential businesses

office of price administration

• set prices and wages

  • want to prevent inflation

• rationing coupon books/stamps

• victory gardens

office of war information

• limit amount of public war information

• want to help protect war effort

• civilian surveilance

• create propaganda

national war labor board

• resolve labor issues/strikes

• limit right to strike in industries crucial to war effort

revenue act of 1942

• “victory tax” increase income taxes

• more ppl taxed, higher rates paid

• fair employment practice comittee

• CORE / A Phillip randolph

• threatens to march in DC

• ends racial discrimination in war time industries