1.the government agency that was set up to coordinate the production of military equipment and...
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1. The government agency that was set up to coordinate the production of military equipment and supplies:War Production Board
2. The U.S. economy benefited from this and it ended the Great Depression:World War II
3. The total value of all goods and services produced by a nation during a year and during WWII, this went up from $90 billion to nearly $212 billion:GNP –Gross National Product
4. This was a way in which American citizens helped to pay the cost for the war and it financed the war. They were sold in denominations starting at $25 and yielded 2.9% after 10 years:War Bonds
5. This was an African-American labor leader and he threatened to lead an African-American protest march for better jobs in 1941:A. Phillip Randolph
6. These were Mexican workers and the U.S. government needed their help due to farm worker shortages:Braceros
7. In 1943, these riots erupted in Los Angeles and American servicemen attacked Mexican Americans. The riots were named after the clothing fashion of young Mexican American men:Zoot Suit Riots
8. A strong woman image—hard at work in an arms factory symbolized women in the workplace:Rosie the Riveter
9. This was a segregated unit of African-American pilots and crew members who served with honor in North Africa and Europe:Tuskegee Airmen
10. These were women who served in the U.S. armed forces as mechanics, drivers, clerks and Army nurses:WACs (Women’s Army Corps)
11. Japanese-Americans were forced to sell their possessions, leave their jobs, and move to these. They provided sparse living conditions in isolated locations across the western U.S.:Japanese Internment Camps
12. Japanese-Americans born in the United States were called this, and two-thirds were put in internment camps:Nisei
13. They raised the American flag every day in the camps and volunteered for and fought in the U.S. Army in Europe:Japanese Americans showing loyalty to the U.S.
14. In response to anti-Japanese hysteria after Pearl Harbor this was signed by President Roosevelt. This order allowed for the removal of Japanese & Japanese-Americans from the Pacific Coast:Executive Order 9066
15. These war-effort posters encouraged Americans to purchase bonds as a loan to the government with a low interest return:Investment
16. These war-effort posters called on men and women to work to fulfill the urgent needs of defense:Production
17. These war-effort posters called upon American citizens to ration goods and food and plant victory gardens:Conservation
18. This was recycled from bacon grease and used for ammunition. It makes glycerin and glycerin makes explosives:Fat
19. American consumers were issued these cards to limit their grocery and gas purchases and they were asked not to waste and use items sparingly:Rationing
20. “Don’t waste anything”, “Buy only what is necessary”, “Salvage what you don’t need”, and “Share what you have”, are all Messages to Help Fight:Waste
21. The Office of Civilian Defense called upon each American family to become this:A Fighting Unit on the Home Front
22. Everyone –down to the youngest children took part in WWII recycling of this, placing them in a container on the curb and their recycling motto was:Tin Cans / “Wash & Squash”
23. Almost all U.S. manufacturing was converted to the war effort and the Ford Motor Company worked 24 hours a day and performed this miracle:A B-24 Bomber was produced every 63 minutes
24. By 1943, they had entered the work force, and nearly half in the defense plants. They were symbolically called ‘Rosie the Riveter’.:6 million women
25. This organization, created in 1941, provides morale, welfare, and recreation-type services to U.S. men and women in uniform:USO (United Service Organization)
Arizona’s Contribution during WWII
• Defense Plants (pgs 229-230)
• Most AZ Defense Plants were producing parts for airplanes
Goodyear Aircraft Corp. near Litchfield Garrett Corp. near Sky Harbor Consolidated Aircraft Corp. in Tucson
• Alcoa Corp. in Phoenix. World’s largest Aluminum plan• Del Webb Corp. (same company that built our Ahwatukee
Foothills community) built military bases.
Arizona’s Contribution during WWII
Training (pgs 232-233)
AZ perfect flying climate for Aviation Schools SW Airlines in Glendale, Scottsdale, Mesa Luke Air force Base in Phoenix Williams Air Force base in Chandler 140,000 soldiers trained
• Including 61,000 pilots
Arizona’s Contribution during WWIIPOW camps
• Italian prisoner of war camp in Florence• German prisoner of war camp in Phoenix• Several attempts of escape• Phoenix school kids started a fad of
wearing POW on their sweatshirts.
The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act
• The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act. It required all non-citizen adult residents to register their political beliefs with the government.
• within four months, 4,741,971 aliens had registered under the Act's provisions.
• The Act is best known for its use against political organizations and figures.
Executive Order 8985 Establishing the Office of Censorship
• With this, Americans lost part of their 1st Amendment rights (freedom of speech, press).
• December 19, 1941 President FDR said: “It is necessary that a watch be set upon our borders, so that no such information may reach the enemy, inadvertently or otherwise, through the medium of the mails, radio, or cable transmission, or by any other means.”