The Manhattan Project
A program costing several billion dollars to develop a nuclear weapon.
What is the Manhattan Project?
An order issued on June 25, 1941, assuring fair hiring practices and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee.
What was Executive Order 8802?
The state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.
What is internment?
One of two leaders of the Manhattan Project who ran the scientific aspects of the project.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
How Did The War Change America At Home?
More women joined the workforce
More measures for fair hiring
Wartime and patriotic themes in entertainment industries
A lot of migration
More government control on economy
The president who oversaw the Manhattan Project and gave it the highest national priority.
Who is FDR?
An order issued in February of 1942 showing the distrust of Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
A series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.
What is the Bracero Program?
A cultural icon symbolizing women's part in the war efforts and encouraging women to join the workforce.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
How Did The Allies Defeat The Axis Powers?
Shortage of supplies for Axis powers
Allies had vast resources
Allies had more aerial support
One of two primary leaders of the Manhattan Project, responsible for building facilities, acquiring materials, recruiting scientists and providing security.
Who is General Leslie Groves?
An all-Nisei regiment organized on March 23, 1943, countering the notion of disloyalty.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?
limiting amount of consumption
A labor leader advocating for racial justice.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
How did the war create new opportunities for African Americans?
The Executive Order 8802- assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money and established the fair employment practices committee to enforce these requirements
The two cities bombed by the U.S. using nuclear technology.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
A United States government agency created during World War II. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, it was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities.
What is the Office of War Information (OWI)?
The phrase given to the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific
The 33rd President, whose decision it was to bomb Japan.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Why were Japanese Americans interned during World War II?
The US believed the Japanese Americans were inherently disloyal and posed as a threat
Japan surrenders, ending the war.
What is V-J Day?
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II
(in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
Famous German scientist who encouraged the making of the nuclear bombs.
Who is Albert Einstein?
How did the federal government control resources needed for the war efforts?
Office of Price Administration was created which had authority to control wages and set maximum prices and rationing was enforced which Americans were issued coupon books that limited the amount of certain goods that they could purchase