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Vocab. - WWII Part 3
Content and Acadmic Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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War Production Board | a govt. agency created during WWII to help factories shift from making consumer goods to making war materials |
rationing | limiting the amount of certain goods that people can buy |
victory garden | during WWII, a vegetable garden planted to combat food shortages in the U.S. |
Rosie the Riveter | a fictional factory worker who became a symbol of American women's contribution to the war effort during WWII |
"Double V" Campaign | an African-American civil rights campaign during WWII |
Tuskegee Airmen | African American fighter pilots who trained in Tuskegee, Alabama during WWII |
internment | the temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
Bracero Program | the recruitment of Mexican laborers to work in the U.S. during WWII |
allocate | to apportion, distribute |
redeem | to buy back |