APUSH Ch.35- America in World War II
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Sydthekid12 on April 17, 2012
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American Pageant
Thomas Bailey
13th Edition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Germany First Policy | The thought that we needed to defeat Germany before Japan, as they were a greater threat to democracy |
| Internment camps | On the pacific coast, 110,000 jap- americans were taken from there homes and put into camps where they would lose their property and freedom. |
| Korematsu V. US | 1944, Said that the internment camps are constitutional |
| New deal programs killed | Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, and the National Youth Administration |
| The Atlantic Charter | declaration of US goals going into the war such as to fight Germany first and Japan second. |
| Henry J. Kaiser | "Sir Launchalot" perfected the ship assembly methods and created one ship every 14 days |
| The War Production Board | halted manufacture of nonessential items such as passenger cars, and when the Japanese seized rubber supply, the WPB imposed a speed limit and gas rationing to save tires |
| Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act | Let the federal government seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes |
| Women in arms | WAACS (army) WAVES (navy) SPARS (coast guard) |
| Bracero Program | brought MExican workers to America as resident workers |
| Rosie the Riveter | Symbol for women taking jobs in the workplace. after war 2/3 of women workers returned to the house |
| The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | Phillip Randolph, the leader, threatened a "negro march to washington" in 1941 to get better rights and treatment |
| The Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) | discouraged racism and oppression in the workplace |
| The Congress of Racial Equality | CORE, group that planned Freedom Rides to desegregate interstate buses |
| Mechanical Cotton Picker | encouraged the migration of africans from the south to the Northern cities |
| Potsdam Conference | the Aliies issue ultimatum of surrender of be destroyed to the Japs |
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