HW - Chapter 36: Bailey

ABC-1 Agreement

The agreement B/T US/Britain to X Germ 1st

- B/C X want Britain/SU D by Hitler and wanted to combine war effort to X Jap.

Korematsu v. US (1945)

The SC case and year where the "relocation" Jap. internment camps were ruled constitutional

Issei

1st gen. Jap immigrants

Nissei

2nd gen. Jap immigrants

Henry J. Kaiser

The Am. shipbuilder known for speed

ex. 14 day ship build turnaroundtime w/ life jackets and coat hangers

Office of Price Administration

The gov. program to lower wartime inflation and maintain WWII rations

Braceros

Mex. ag. workers brought to Am. to harvest food/grain crops (1942)

A. Philip Randolph

The Black leader of Sleeping Car Porters who wanted the "Negro March on Wash" B/C wanted equal opps. for soldier and war jobs, and military integ.

Fair Employment Practices Act

The act by FDR B/C A. Philip Randolph to X defense ind. job discrimination and allow Black men to be drafted to the military

Thomas E. Dewey

The Eo1944 Rep. candidate and NYC governor who was an internationalist

Harry S. Truman

Roosevelt's Eo1944 VP nomination, Missouri Senator, and future Pres

- Chairman of the wasteful war expenditures committee

Tokyo (March 9-10th, 1945)

The city and dates where the US firebomb raid occured which destroyed 250,000 buildings, 83,000K, and X 1/4 city

Kamikazes

Jap. suicide pilots

ex. Pearl Harbor (1941), Okinawa (1945)

Alamagordo (July 16th, 1945)

The testing site and date where the 1st Atom bomb detonated

- Created by the Manhattan Project

Saboteurs

The first reason why Japs were put into internment camps B/C Am. ppl thought Japs would become this in case of invasion

Pearl Harbor

The second reason why Japs were put into internment camps B/C of hysteria after this event

Prejudice

The third reason why Japs were put into internment camps B/C of this anti-Jap belief on the West Coast

Women in Arms

The first way women were vital in WWII B/C joined the military as these

Outside

The second way women were vital in WWII B/C took these jobs that were X in home

Munitions Factories

The third way women were vital in WWII B/C produced war materials in these factories

Great Migration

The problem faced by Black Ams. during WWII B/C this move of 1.6m ppl to W/N for war factory jobs caused housing, employment, and seg. problems

Surrender

The reason why the atom. bomb was dropped on Nagasaki B/C X Jap. did this after Hiroshima