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1
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Wo used capatilism and wealth to sell the war effort to the Amercian people?

A

Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgen

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What was the increase in AA pop in Seatle?

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4,000-40,000

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OMW?

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necessity of incresed production required govt interaction with and directin of industrial production

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How many JA served in the military and on what team?

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18,000

442 combat team

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What was the first solution for paying the war?

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Money was borrowed

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What happened when racial tensions developed in the country?

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Race riots took plae

Detroit had the largest killing 25 blacks and 9 whites in 1943

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What was the US case to stop internment camps?

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Korematsu v US

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While war expanded oppurtunities for most, what were blacks expected to do?

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fill service roles in the war effort

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9
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What was Hitler’s final solution?

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6 milion Jews dead

Several mill other holocaust victims

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How much did Congress each surviving internee in 1988?

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$20,000

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11
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How many NA served in the armed forces?

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25,000

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12
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What were women still responsible for?

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traditional chores

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13
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Who depended on Bracerolaboreres?

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farmers

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14
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What was the cost of WWII per day?

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$250 mill

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By the millions, American citizens supported the war effort by doing what?

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rationing their concumption of vital goods

new spending habits, pocket books, women baseball, new music, movies

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AAlthough rtioning and conservatoin helped, how did the govt need to get millions from?

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borrowing

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17
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What were volunteer activites?

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air raid wardens
collection drives were organized to recycle many different goods
children served as tin can colonels or uncle sam’s scrappers

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18
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Zoot Suit Riots (1943)?

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Several thousand off duty Mexican American soldiers and sailors joined by hundred white civilians rampaged through downtown Los Angeles assulting Hispanics, blacks, and Filipino

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How did many show their support for the war?

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Buying war bonds

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Office of Censorship?

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designed to promote patrotism and influene public opinion
eamined letters going overseas
causualty figures from pearl harbor were not initially reported
photos of american war dead prohibited for a while
Later the media was encouraged to publicize accounts of Japanese autrocities vs US

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21
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What was Executive Order 9066?

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110,000 JA were relocated into internment camps
2/3 were US citizens
Most camps were in the remote parts of the west

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22
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What did the Revenue Act show the growth of?

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govt power in war time

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23
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How did the automobile industry mobilize?

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Chrysler:tanks (50,000 tanks)
Ford: Jeeps and planes (288,000 jeeps and one plane was created in 63 minutes)

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24
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What happened to wages for all workers?

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at least doubed during the war

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25
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What was the OPA slogan?

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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without

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Rosie the Riveter?1

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Iconic image of woman dressed in overalls who became the symbol women in the male workforce launched by the govt

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What were some jobs that women had?

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shipbuilders
welders
airplane manufacturer

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28
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What was the Bracero program?

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Increased employment for Mexican Americans farm workers

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What was the Supreme Court case that got rid of internment camps?

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Korematsu v US

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30
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What was the divorces in 1940 and 1944?

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16 divorces/ 100 marriges

27 divorces/100 marriges

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31
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What was the US debt in 1945?

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247 bill

half came from citizens

32
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What happened in regard to children?

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Highschool enrollment dropped

juvenille deliquency increased

33
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John Keynes?

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deficit spending

war bonds, bank loans, private investors

34
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What were many new women workers?

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married

35
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Office of Price Administration?

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OPA

in charge of rationing and was empowere to establish price controls to counteract the war time inflation

36
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Who were used as Code Talkers?

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Navajo

37
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What did FDR do with Randolph’s march?

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Set up Fair Employment Practices Commisson to halt inequality

38
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How many people were in the armed forces in 1941 and 1945?

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1.6 million

15 mill men and 350,000 women

39
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What happened to marragies, divorce, and birthrate?

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increased

40
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What was the Revenue Act?

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Instituted witholding taxes
Tax rates for all was increased
The national govt generated 20 times the tax revenue in 1945 than it had in 1940

41
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War Productions Board?

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WBA
produced more military goods than Germany, Italy, Japan combined
Conversio of economy from civilian to military suplies

42
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To foster industrial production, who realized tha industry must be allowed to make a profit on the production of war material?

A

Secretary of War Henry Stimson

43
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What did the Revenue Act do?

A

increased the numer of Americans paying taxes

44
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OPA?

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limitation on consumer goods became necessary as production was geared toward military needs

45
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How was unemployment?

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very low

46
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What did the Wildcat strikes influence?

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Smith Connally Act

limited strikes

47
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Where did many NA leave to work at defense plants?

A

reservations

48
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While fighting for democracy overseas, many black activists advocated what?

A

increased democracy and racial equality at home

Double V campain

49
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Why did some AA leave the south?

A

hoped to leave discrimination and Jim Crow laws

50
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What expectations were women put on?

A

wives
mothers
sex objects

51
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What is Executive ORder 8802?

A

Prohibited race discrimination in the defense industry

52
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How many blacks left the south to go to the north for war industries?

A

700,000

53
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What did the average wages increase to each year?

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$457 to $1976

54
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War production caused employment oppurtunities to expand. What did this end?

A

GD

55
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Who issued a formal apolgy to internment victims in 1982?

A

Govt Comission

56
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How many tanks did the Michigan plant m;ake?

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22,000

Germany had 25,000 total

57
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American Civil Labor Union?

A

Tries to get the liberties back from the 9066

Tries to get liberties back when they are infringed on

58
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What put question to American values?

A

internment of Japanese
challenges to civil liberties
debtes over race and segregation
the decision to drop the A bomb

59
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Between 1941-1945, how many women joined the workforce?

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over 6 mill

60
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What did the Opa create?

A

rationbooks
each family had one
items that were rationed were: sugar, cheese, coffee, rubber, gasoline
National speed limit was 35 mph

61
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What program did the US negotiate in 1942 for Hispanics?

A

Braceroprogram

62
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What were Wildcat Strikes?

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protest low pay and shortage of vital goods for domestic economy

63
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What was teh second solution for paying the wa?

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Revenue Act 1942

64
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Who ran the WBA?

A

Don Nelson

former head of Sears and Roebuck

65
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What ended the GD and helped minorities and women improve their social positions?

A

Mass mobilization of American society to supply troops for the war efforts and have a workforce on the homefront

66
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Congress of Racial Equality (1942)?

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Created Civil Rights Organization during WWII that comitted itself to using nonviolent techniues to end racial segregation

67
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How many AA served in teh armed forces in segregated units?

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million

68
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Following the attacks of Pearl Harbor, who did many americans blame?

A

JA

69
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A Philip Randolf?

A

Blck leader who organized a march on DC in 1941 to pressure FDR to issue an executive order to ban discrimination industries
Executive Order 8802

70
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What was the increase in AA pop in Detroit?

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Increased by 50,000

71
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Why were workers getting little while industrilists were getting rich?

A

price nd wage fixing of OPA

72
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What happened to the states?

A

Industry states grew as agri states population decreased

73
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How did the US contribute to WWII?

A

victories over fascism

new opurtunities for women and minorities

74
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What was the US debt in 1941?

A

48 bill

75
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Japanese American Internment (1942)?

A

Executive Order 9066
FDR autoritzed the removal of enemy aliends from miitary areas
Over 110,000 JA living in western US were moved to nternment camps, except Hawaii

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