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World War II
The Home Front
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A. Philip Randolph | The charismatic and savvy labor leader who asserted that African Americans would no longer accept second class citizenship. |
| Executive Order 8802 | This measure assured fair hiring practices in any jobs funded with government money and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce these requirment. |
| Bracero Program | Brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms. |
| Internment | Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group. |
| Korematsu v. U.S. | Fred Korematsu was arrested for resisting the army's order. Korematsu argued that he was denied equal protection under the law simply because he was a Japanese American. Justice Frank Murphy wrote the internment "falls into the ugly abyss of racism." |
| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | Fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history. |
| Rationing | Another form of economic control, which had the authority to control wages and set maximum prices. |
| Office of War Information (OWI) | Worked closely with the media to encourage support of the war effort, tried to spotlight common needs, minimize racial and economic divisions, and downplay problems of poverty and crime. |
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