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TERM 1
How did the war affect American
workers?
DEFINITION 1 Because defense industries boomed, unemployment was low- People had jobs!!! TERM 2
How did the growth of the defense industry
affect the American population?
DEFINITION 2 It triggered a mass migration- people moved where jobs were found. Towns with defense industry populations doubled. TERM 3
How did wartime activities affect families?
DEFINITION 3 Fathers left for war, mothers raised children alone. Children sometimes had to be left alone and teenagers got into juvenile delinquency. TERM 4
How were African Americans treated at home
and in the military?
DEFINITION 4 African AMricans moved to the midwest to take jobs- skilled jobs.- Discrimination! Tensions rose when they would move into crowed towns TERM 5
Detroit Riots
DEFINITION 5 1943- Hot Sunday afternoon- a white and black man got into a fight on a beach and it turned into a riot for 3 days- A rumor that a white sailor murdered a black woman and her child spurred it on
TERM 6
Why were Japanese Americans placed in
internment camps?
DEFINITION 6 After Pearl Harbor the U.S> was frightened and believed rumors that Japanese Americans were committing sabotage by mining coastal harbors and poisoning vegetables. Roosevelt signed an oreder to round up and detain Japanese Americans in prison camps. TERM 7
How were the Japanese Americans
compensated for the internment camps and
treatment?
DEFINITION 7 The Japanese Americans fought for justice in court- the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) pushed the governement to compensate- Every person received $20, who were in a camp. Ronald Reagan signed the bill. TERM 8
Who was Fred Korematsu?
DEFINITION 8 He is a Japanese American that defied the government and stayed in his home instead of going to the detention camps TERM 9
What did Fred Korematsu challenge in the
Supreme Court?
DEFINITION 9 That the order to leave his home was unconstitutional because it was based on RACE TERM 10
What did the Supreme Court rule in the
Korematsu VS. United States case?
DEFINITION 10 Military necessity made internment camps constitutional
