Minority Groups Flashcards
Entered Workforce again
Women
Had Non-Combat Roles
Women
Worked in ammunitions factories and had dangerous roles
Women
Great Migration that lasted till 1950’s
African Americans
War gave birth to Civil Rights Organizations for these people
African Americans
Arranged in segregated units (sometimes with less pay)
African Americans
Double V
African Americans
Motivated in War Effort
African Americans
Nisei Regimens served with distinction
Asian Americans
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066
Asian Americans
Apologized to relocate and repay later generations
Asian Americans
Combat roles and the most important contribution was language
Native Americans
Immigration Restrictions were relaxed for labor
Mexican Americans
Created executive order to relocate japanease
Franklin Roosevelt
Helped arrange Germany and unconditional surrender
Harry S Truman
Thought Bomb wasn’t needed
Eisenhower
Commander of the Allies
Douglass Macarthur
Prime Minister
Churchill
German invasion of Poland, start of WW2
Sept 1, 1939
Pearl Harbor Attack
Dec. 7 1941
D-Day (Normandy Landings)
June 6 1944
Atomic Bomb Dropped
Aug. 6 & 9 1945
Japan Surrenders
Aug 15. 1945