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He was an African American sailor from Waco who defended a battleship during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Who was Dorie Miller?
The United States declared war against Japan in 1941 because of the attack here.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Due to the demand for war products, Texas' economy benefited from industrial expansion and the creation of many of these that had been rare during the Great Depression.
What are jobs?
Many Texans were upset by the rationing of this because they thought such rationing was unnecessary since Texas was such an oil-rich state.
What is gasoline?
This was the name given to the Nazis’ mass murder of European Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
He commanded the Allied forces in Europe during World War II.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This city was home to Randolph Field, known as “The West Point of the Air” due to its flight training school.
What is San Antonio?
The war presented new employment opportunities for African Americans, Mexican Americans, and this group of people.
Who are women?
This is a government-set limit on the purchase of certain items.
What is a ration?
This means to equip with machinery, especially to replace human or animal labor.
What is mechanize?
He was the most decorated soldier of World War II.
Who was Audie Murphy?
This city became home to the largest naval air-training center in the world during World War II.
What is Corpus Christi?
To prevent German subs from attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists constructed these to move oil.
What are underground pipelines?
This included posters and news reports to build support for the war effort.
What is propaganda?
This is a human-made replacement for a natural product.
What is a synthetic?
She was the commander of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC).
Who was Oveta Culp Hobby?
This city was home to a mile long aircraft plant that employed 38,000 workers.
What is Fort Worth?
Wartime demands affected migration within Texas during World War II by having this many people move from rural to urban locations between 1940 and 1943.
What is 500,000?
The purpose of this organization was to spot potential threats to civilians.
What was the Civilian Air Patrol (CAP)?
He was the Texan admiral who commanded the Pacific fleet.
What is Chester Nimitz?
She was the first woman in Texas to have a pilot’s license and her own plane.
Who was Edith Whatley McKanna?
This city was home to Avenger Field, the training center for the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).
What is Sweetwater?
The U.S. needed to make synthetic rubber for use in World War II because Japan had cut off supply of natural rubber from this region.
What is Southeast Asia?
Because the National Guard was called to active duty during World War II, the Texas legislature created this group to provide security on the home front.
A Tejano, he was one of the 33 Texans to win the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery.
Who was Macario Garcia or Silvestre Herrera?