Ch. 25.1 Flashcards
Who like most Americans began to mobilize for war and looked over all over his army base for a tape recorder?
Charles Swanson
What is the name of the section?
Mobilizing for defense
How many people volunteered for military service?
5 million
The what expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet me Armed Forces needs?
Selective service system
How long did volunteers and draftees spend in basic training?
8 weeks
Who is the Army Chief of Staff Gen. who formed the woman’s group?
George Marshall
What was the name of the woman’s group that the Army Chief of Staff Gen. formed?
Woman’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
When did the US Army drop the auxiliary status and granted the WAC’s full US Army benefits?
July 1943
How many Mexican-Americans joined the Armed Forces?
300,000
Mexican-Americans made up how much of Los Angeles’s population and they suffered how many of the cities wartime casualties?
Tenth
A fifth
How many African-Americans served in the military?
1 million
How many Native Americans enlisted in the armed services including how many women?
25,000
800 women
By the end of 1942 what industrialist had built seven massive new shipyards that turned out liberty ships tankers troop transports and baby aircraft carriers at an astonishing break?
Henry J. Kaiser
By 1944 despite the draft nearly how many workers were laboring in war industries? How many times as much as in 1941? How many of these workers were women?
18 million
Three times as many
6 million
Who was the nation’s most respected African-American labor leader?
A. Philip Randolph
