WWII Lesson 2 Flashcards
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How many Americans served in WWII?
16 million Americans served in WWII.
Why did women take factory jobs during the war?
Because all men went all armed forces.
Explain how world war II helped some African Americans?
They found better jobs that pay better Also another way was to survive in the military.
What was the names of the African Americans unit pilot who flew in world war II?
Tuskegee Airmen, Benjamin o. Davis Jr.
When were Japanese Americans moved to internment camps?
After the attack on Pearl harbor.
- Agency that oversaw the conversion of factories for war production.
War production board.
- Labor leader who organized a protest over lower wages for African Americans?
A Philip Randolph
Group of African Americans pilots trains in Alabama?
Tuskegee Airmen.
First African American general in the U.S Air force?
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Attacks by white mobs against Mexican Americans.
Zoot-suit riots
Imprisonment of Japanese Americans during world war II?
Internment
War Production board
Converted factories
A. Philip Randolph
Labor leader
Tuskegee Airmen
African American piolt
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Group leader
Zoot-suit riots
attacked “Mexican Americans”
Internment
imprisonment of “Japanese Americans”