wwii p3 Flashcards
a. philip randolph
march on washington movement
zoot suit riots
suits worn by latino boys who got into fights with sailors
sailors attacking all mexicans
racial tensions at home
blacks move north for work into crappy cities
1943 race riots
the worst in detroit 25 blacks and 9 whites die
manhattan project
20$ billion
university of chicago is where the reaction occurred
oak ridge tennessee made for project uranium
hanford engineer works plutonium experiments
los almos nm where the bomb was built
alamogordo nm where the bomb was tested
general macarthur
oversaw surrender of japan
macarthurs vow that he would return and save his men
designed island hopping
flying tigers
fought for china against japan
led by chennault
logo design by walt disney
pilots
bataan death march
Philippines, us soldiers on half rations, men and women, 100 mile treck, soldiers suffered like jews in holocaust camps
uss missouri
where the surrender of japan was oversaw
enrico fermi
worked on atomic bomb
figured out nuclear reaction
italian
yalta conference
february 1945, big three fdr churchill and stalin, consider the german question- should they pay reparations again, stalin wanted lots- poland 1/2 of reparations, but for this he promised to declare war on japan, join un-if the could have mongolia, he only followed through with the un. and he got 1/2 of reparations, allowed to conquer outer mongolia
bombing of japan/after effects
little boy-uranium bomb, dropped on hiroshima from enola gay which was flown by colonel paul tibbits
fat man-plutonium bomb, dropped on nagasaki from bockscar which was flown by major general charles sweeney
after effects-lots of cancer miscarriages and birth defects after bombs explosion
attacks on america
Oregon-Japanese pilot dropped incendiary bombs to start forest fires
pearl harbor in Hawaii
California- Santa Barbara Japanese tried to blow up oil refinery
Alaska- 1942 japan attacks Aleutian islands
east coast- Miami beacon u boats up the Mississippi, operation pastorius- destroy power plants and pa railroads, operation elster- get info on manhattan project
women workers
marines, spars- coast guard, army- wacs, air force- wasps, navy- waves, Rosie the riviter
klaus fuchs
traitor, from britian, gave a lot of info to soviets
cost of wwii
$321 billion
lives us 292,000, ussr 18-22 mil, japan 2+ mil, jews 6 mil, china 1+ mil, german 3+ mil
war production board
in charge of factory conversion
populations shifts
after the war baby boom because everyones back 1945-1963
march on washington movement
1941 to fight discrimination
civil defense
along coast and inner places where factories were
potsdam conference
July 17- august 2 1945, new big 3- Truman Stalin and Churchill(atlee after elections), how to administer Germany, us informs ussr of new bomb
ledo road
built by black troops in burma. supply route
what is island hopping
start in hawaii and slowly take back the atlantic from japan by general macarthur
NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored peoples
changes in family life
men are off in the war
women are working in factories
children are in schools
suburbia
explain the 1940s social culture
war toys, entertainment went to war, movies based around depression and war, Kilroy was here, swing and country music come about, female baseball league, NFL 1949, playing of the national anthem, stars went to combat-joe dimaggio, rations, pro war, uso- played for soldiers, war comics- captain America
TEEN CULTURE frank sinatra-instigator of juvenile delinquency, term teenager will be used for the first time, bobby soxer, zoot suit riots
describe the discrimination of various groups in the US during World War II
African-American, they were segregated troops, race riots, segregated blood banks. Women, second-class citizens. Mexican Americans, zoot suit riot. Italian Americans, ID required, curfews, bank accounts frozen. German Americans, ID required, took property, bank accounts frozen. Japanese Americans, executive order 9066, detention camps, small rations, poor conditions.
explain the items ration and the purpose of rationing
ITEMS- sugar, gasoline, Robert, milk, meat, bread, nylon
REASONING- food items for ration because the soldiers fighting needed the food to survive, nylon was rationed because it was needed to make parachute, gas and rubber were rationed because it was needed for machinery and tanks.
why was the 1940s called the “decade of triumph”?
because it was dominated by war, US arose as super power during this time
explain The origins and effects of some of the social problems that surfaced during the war years
race riots because blacks were moving north and taking jobs whites didn’t like that
Japanese interment because they had a history of being loyal to japan they were forced away from where the lived into camps like the jews lived
zoot suit riots because the sailors were being mean to the latinos so they were mean back whole gang fight
