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| where the government agreed to pay a company whatever it costs to make a product and percentage of profit |
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| Selective Service and Training Act of 1940 |
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| first peacetime draft in history |
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| Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Sr. |
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| highest ranking african american general |
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| African american pilots that won battle of anzio |
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| flew 200 missions and didnt lose a single member |
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| the symbol of the campaign to hire women in the war industries |
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| head of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters proposed on washington that factories would hire women but not african americans |
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| FDR; created no discrimination based on race, creed, color or national origin |
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| it was labors who helped harvest 200,000 crops, it helped harvest in the south east, it lasted 22 years |
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| new industrial region, in southern california and the deep south. it grew manufacturing and urbanization |
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| attacks on young white and african americans. they were at belle isle to cool off and started fighting |
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| mexican-americans were attacked because they heard that the mexican soldiers were sailors |
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| Japanese American Internment Camps |
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| they were japanese/american concentration camps created by feared americans that the japanese americans in america were stil loyal to their country and would attack. the supreme court ruled that relocation was constitutional because it was based not on race but on military urgency forced deportation |
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| spare rubber, aluminum, tin, sleet |
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| govt helped finance 300 billion in spending of wwII |
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| extra taxes, bonds, raising taxes |
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| germany, italy, japan. us refuses to sell scrap iron to japanese, eventually all items with military uses |
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| fdr appeals to emp. of japan on december 6th 1941 to halt all acs of aggression, told we would hear reply the next day. we got bombed. |
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| us retaliate for pearl harbor |
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| mormady invasion. 2 year plan. led by dwight D eisenhower. |
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| fails and allies cross rhine river. |
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| new us president after FDR |
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| defensive battle. japanese plans decoded. americans win. holds off invasion of australia. |
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| brings end to threat faced by hawaii |
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| strategy to capture key islands |
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| largest naval battle in history, kamikaze attacks. |
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| important refueling post. us wins |
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| manhattan project, leo szilard drafted letter to einstein. truman warns. then bombs hiroshima. then bombs nagasaki. war over |
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| ussr lost most lives. front of center. |
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| prosecutions of nazi leaders. lower ranking officials |
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| dealing with hitlers demands for sudetenland. gave over to hitler. winston churchill denies. appeasment fails. hitler has further demands. |
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| germany invades poland, blitzkreig. fall of france. winston churchill is new prime minister. |
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