Chapter 25 Flashcards
World War 1
Cost Plus Contracts
the government agreed to pay for a product manufacture
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Made loans to companies to to help them cost the production
War Production Board (WPB)
help distribute raw material and supplies
GI
Government issued soldier; trained for 8 weeks
Tuskegee Airmen
a African American group of solders; fought in the Battle of Anzio in Italy
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
first time women were able to join the war, couldn’t do fighting jobs
Doolittle Raid
April 18, 1942; Colonel James Doolittle bombed Japan
Battle of Coral Sea
Decoded message alerted Japanese were planning to bomb the us
Battle of Stalingrad
last major city before stalin’s oil field
Rosie the riveter
a representative for women’s ability to work
Executive order 8802
declared no discrimination in the employment and work
Bracero Program of 1942
Arranged Mexican farm workers to come to the us to help harvest in the south west
Zoot Suit Riots
racism against Mexicans grew
interment camps
japanese homes where Japanese American were stopped from their homes and jobs
war labor board
work to prevent strikes that would endanger the war effort
blue print
coupons to buy ur part of rations
Casablanca conference
agreement to increase bombing, destroy Germany military and economy
Battle of Sicily
forced mussolini out of Italy; hitler attacked the lower part forcing mussolini back in
Battle of the bulge
many were surrounded then captured, Americans attacked and pushed them back
V-E day
Germany was force to surrounder
Kamikaze pilots
they deliberately crashed their planes into ships killing themselves and causing severe damage to the ship
