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War Production Board (WPB)

Published on Jan 21, 2021

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War Production Board (WPB)

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The WPB sought to meet Roosevelt's goal of making the United States the “arsenal of democracy

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Executive Order 9066

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it was created by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 and it was to evacuate every one from the west coat and to be relocated in the island.

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Korematsu v. United States

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Korematsu v U.S. Supreme Court case that declared the internment camps to be legal during wartime. Black students politely order food from restaurant, and were not served.

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Women’s Army Corps (WAC)

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they give new opportunity's to women to work due to the cause that almost all men when to war and the demand for work was urgent so women had to cover all men working .

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Double V campaign

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The Double V campaign was a slogan and drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II.

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Tuskegee Airmen

Photo by H. Michael Miley
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The army air corps established its first black combat unit in 1941. Known as the Tuskegee Airmen, these pilots and their support crews showed that African Americans could handle the most demanding assignments. They served mainly as bomber escorts, engaging in direct combat with German fighter planes. The Tuskegee Airmen gained a reputation for skill and courage, shooting some 400 German attackers out of the sky. They were the only fighter group never to lose a bomber to enemy planes.

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War Refugee Board

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The War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, was a U.S. executive agency to aid civilian victims of the Axis powers.

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Zoot Suit Riots

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A zoot suit consists of a flat, broad-brimmed felt hat, a long suit coat with large shoulder pads, and baggy pants that flared at the knee. Many Mexican American teenagers, or pachucos, in East Los Angeles began dressing in this flashy style and wearing their hair long in the back, in the ducktail fashion

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Pachucos and servicemen from the local navy base occasionally clashed. Those small-scale clashes escalated in June 1943 into the Zoot Suit Riots.

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