Ch.24 pt.2 Flashcards
2nd Great Migration
The Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the other three regions of the United States. It took place from 1941, through World War II, and lasted until 1970
Zoot- Suit Riots
Mexican teenagers in LA who rebelled against conventional, white, middle class society
Japanese Internment/ Removal
the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000[2] people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country
Hirabayashi v. U.S and Korematsu v. U.S
h; case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the application of curfews against members of a minority group were constitutional when the nation was at war with the country from which that group originated..
k; landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.
D-Day
June 6, 1944 allied forces land on the coast of normandy
The Holocaust/ St. Louis
Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews of Germany and other undesirable people
Battles of Coral Sea. Midway, and Leyte Gulf
First allied victory in the pacific against japan!
The Manhattan Project
top secret program dedicated to creating an atomic weapon
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
where US dropped atomic bombs