Women
People group recruited due to the wartime male labor shortage
What are women?
The first African-American air force unit
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This person hired many people and their ships helped the US cut down shipbuilding production time drammatically (One of Five Biographies)
Who is Henry Kaiser?
Industry that produced 1/3 of all American military equipment
What is the automobile industry?
Slanted information that says that "x" is good and/or that "y" is bad
What is propaganda?
Popular fictional propaganda figure that encouraged women to work in factories
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Two ethnicities that also were also put in internment camps besides Japanese-Americans
What are Italian-Americans and German-Americans?
Leader of a prominent African American union who threatened to march on Washington, DC if President Roosevelt did not regulate wartime hiring practices (One of Five Biographies)
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
The thing that finally ended the Great Depression
What is the World War II economy?
Organization that helped spread government propaganda in support of World War II, especially in the movie industry
What is the Office of War Information (OWI)?
First director of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps who fought for women to have better employment opportunities in the United States (One of Five Biographies)
Who is Oveta Culp Hobby?
The two goals the Double V Campaign had
What are fighting racism abroad and at home?
Chief of staff of the US Army and President Roosevelt's chief military advisor
Who is George Marshall?
Reason many Americans migrated to the Sunbelt (Southeast and Southwest United States)
What is an abundance of manufacturing jobs?
Popular way to produce more food during a time of rationing
What is a Victory Garden?
First peacetime draft in United States history that led to women having to work more in factories
What was the Selective Training and Service Act?
What is a Zoot Suit?
First African-American brigadier general and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen (One of Five Biographies)
Who is Benjamin O. Davis Jr.?
System that sought to incentivize wartime weapons production by having the government pay manufacturers to make weapons alongside a guaranteed percent of the profit
What is the Cost-Plus System?
Two ways that the US Government financed World War II
What are war bonds and increased taxes?
List three organizations that were American women's armed forces organizations
What are the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, Women's Army Corps, and Women's Airforce Service Pilots?
System where Mexican farm workers migrated to the United States to seasonally harvest crops
What is the Bracero Program?
Writer of the memoir Farewell to Manzanar that described her times living in a Japanese Internment Camp (One of Five Biographies)
Who is Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston?
New organization that helped coordinate government housing programs after the lower classes got enough money to buy homes
What is the National Housing Agency?
One Executive Order that outlawed discrimination in government and defense industry hiring AND One Executive Order that authorized Japanese Internment
(MUST BE IN CORRECT ORDER)
What are Executive Orders 8802 and 9066?