USH Unit 8 Flashcards
Deprived of the right to vote
Disenfranchised
WAAC’s first director
Oveta Culp Hobby
Sr. promoted to Brigadier general, Jr. commanded Tuskegee Airmen
Benjamin O David Sr. and Jr.
First black aviators in the US Army Corps
Tuskegee Airmen
African American battalion, commended for service during Battle of the Bulge
761st Tank Battalion
Government contracts to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce an item plus a guaranteed percentage
Cost plus contracts
Women’s (Auxiliary) Army Corps, women served in noncombat positions
WAAC/WAC
New industrial region created in southern California
Sun belt
Men’s clothing of extreme cut typically consisting of a thigh-length jacket with wide padded shoulders and baggy pants with narrow cuffs
Zoot suits
Supreme Court decision to uphold Japanese American internment
Korematsu vs. United States
Seven major shipyards along US west coast, granted wartime production contracts
Kaiser Shipyards
Protested discrimination in military and industry, organized a march on Washington
Phillip Randolph
Designed to ease labor shortages for Mexican farmworkers
Bracero Program
No vest, no cuffs, short jacket, narrow lapels
Victory suit
Restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to a limited supply
Rationing
Garden planted by citizens during war to raise vegetables for home use, leaving more for troops
Victory Gardens
Improve public’s understanding of the war, produced propaganda
Office of War Information (OWI)
In charge of rationing
Office of Price Administration and Office of Economic Stability
Relocated many Japanese Americans to internment camps
Executive Order 9066 (EO9066)
Supreme Commander of US Forces in the Pacific
Douglass McArthur
US Naval Commander in the Pacific
Chester A. Nimitz
Led raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942
Lt. Col James Doolittle
An amphibious tractor used to move troops from ship to shore
Amphtrac
During WW2, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target
Kamikaze
The outer boundary of something
Periphery