WWII

Scrap Drives

The Americans were urged to turn in scrap metal for recycling. Schools, and community groups across the country had scrap metal drives, to aid the war effort.

Rationing

The controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand.

Executive Order 8802

To prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry. A effort to end segregation.

Victory Gardens

Victory Gardens were planted by families in the US during (the homefront) to help prevent a food shortage.

How did Americans show support for the war effort at home?

Victory Gardens,Scrap Metal Drives,Rationing. Young men signing up to be drafted. Labor unions were created. Women volunteered to work for the Red Cross, the USO, and other agencies. Women filled in part of the unemployment shortages left by the men being drafted. The war bonds, and posters.

Manhattan Project

Was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during WWII. Led by the US with support from the United Kingdom and Canada.

Holocaust

Was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

Double-V Campaign

The "Double V" stands for double victory. One victory that symbolized in the "V" is the victory overseas, or in other words, a victory in war. Victories for African Americans: a victory at home, and a victory abroad.

D-Day

June 6, 1944 the day the Allied powers invaded Normandy, France.

What steps did FDR take in the late 1930s to prepare the United States for war?

-Authorizing the doubling of the size of the U.S Navy. -Pledging to come to the aid of any North, Central or South American country attacked. -Pushing congress to approve the first peacetime military draft in US history. Required the registration of all men between the ages of 21 and 35. ( about 16 million men) -Trading 50 old US Navy destroyers to England, in return for leases on military bases on English possessions in the Caribbean. -Pushing the Lend-lease Act through congress, which authorized FDR to sell,trade, lease, or just plain give military hardware to any country he though would use it to further the security of the US. -Ordering Navy to attack on sight German submarines that had been prying on ships off the east coast. -December 8. Attack on Pearl Harbor had made US enter war.

Rosie the Riveter

A cultural icon of the US representing the American women who worked in factories during WWII, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.

Pearl Harbor

A lagoon in Oahu, Hawaii, much of the harbor, and surrounding land is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. The attack on pearl harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, brought the US into WWII.

Blitzkrieg

A military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.

Atlantic Charter

A pivotal policy statement that early in WWII, defined the Allied goals for the post war world.

Bracero Program

A series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated in August 1942 exchanged of diplomatic notes between the US and Mexico for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States.

How did the war impact minorities; like African-Americans and Latinos?

African Americans migrated from southern plantations. They were drafted into or volunteered for the US armed forces. After protests by the black newspapers, the armed forces began to accept black enlistees and draftees. Even when African Americans, Mexicans, were drafted, they were still segregated. African Americans helped fill the job shortages. The war fueled Latino migration to the U.S.

War Bonds

Debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war.

Allied Powers

Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States, and China, which nations allied in opposition to the Axis powers.

What led to the internment of the Japanese-Americans?

Pearl harbor led to the internment of the Japanese Americans because it scared the American citizens into being suspicious of any Japanese person, and the governments solution was to place the Japanese Americans in internment camps so no uprisings would occur.

Yalta Conference

Sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference held February 4th through 11th, 1945, was the WWII meeting of the heads of government of the US, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, represented by FDR, prime minister Winston Churchill, and premier Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.

Axis Powers

The coalition headed by Germany, Italy and Japan that opposes the Allied powers in WWII.

Japanese Internment

The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during WWII.

What role did women play in the armed forces during WWII?

The women had a big role in society including a role in the armed forces during WWII.