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Female factory laborers were recruited and represented by this illustrated cultural icon
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The opposing powers in WWII were called by these names
What are the Axis and Allied powers?
This 1941 attack prompted the U.S.’s entrance into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
He was the Prime Minister of England during WWII
These are the countries that Seiichi Higashide refers to as his “motherlands.”
What are Japan, Peru, and the U.S.?
As the largest charitable organization in the U.S., this non-profit required female volunteers to be certified as nurse’s aides, helping hospital staff to recoup personnel losses
What is the American Red Cross?
This is the term given to the German army’s use of tanks, planes, and motorized infantry in swift attacks
What is Blitzkrieg/ Lightning war?
As a young commander, he recruited over a million members to the Communist Party by the end of the war, recognizing the power of peasant populations
Who is Mao Zedong?
This initiative launched by the U.S. government worked to harness atomic energy, creating bombs that would eventually be detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the Manhattan Project?
This natural hazard “helped diffuse anti-Japanese sentiments” in Peru in 1940.
What is an earthquake?
The two types of discrimination the Executive Order 8802 (Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries Act) sought to address
What are racial and religious discrimination?
Britain and France hoped to appease Hitler by allowing the annexation of this ethnically German area of Czechoslovakia
What is the Sudetenland?
This railroad bombing sparked conflict between Japan and China that would become the Pacific War
What is the Manchurian Incident/The September 18th Incident
These all-Black pilot squadrons completed over 1,500 missions, earning several hundred merits and medals
Who are the Tuskeegee Airmen?
In 1940, this group’s anti-Japanese demonstration transformed into a violent riot resulting in the destruction of $6 million worth of Japanese Peruvian capital.
What is the Guadalupe Middle School in Lima?
This legislation was used by the FBI to justify the capture of those under suspicion of disloyalty
What is the Alien Enemy Act?
These 3 cities were the sites of key battles between Germany and the Soviet Union
What are Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow?
This strategy was used by the Chinese Nationalist government, destroying infrastructure to prevent enemy capture
What is the scorched-earth policy?
This program was introduced in order to provide honorably discharged veterans with benefits.
What is the G.I bill?
Seiichi Higashide arrived emigrated from Tokyo, Japan to Peru in this year
What is 1930?
The U.S. created this program to bring in legally contracted workers from Mexico to fill gaps in the American labor force
What is the Bracero Program?
This agreement between Hilter and the Soviet Union was made in 1939, coordinating the splitting of Poland between the two powers and promising nonaggression.
What was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
This action taken by the U.S. against Japan was considered by the latter to be a declaration of war
What was the oil embargo?
This volcanic island was the site of a battle between 17,000 Japanese soldiers and 70,000 U.S. Marines
What is Iwo Jima?
Seiichi Higashide acquired citizenship from this country in this year, twelve years after his release from the internment camp in Crystal City, Texas.
What are the United States and 1958?