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Ch. 26 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Jewish genocide
    - - refused to save Jewish refugees
      - resisted public pressure to destroy concentration camps and railroad lines
      - a deliberate effort
  - - - investigated discrimination
      - a symbolic victory
    - - urban tensions
    - - mobilized resistance to discrimination
      - fueled the civil rights movement
    - - new responsibilites, black servicemen
      - racial relations began to erode
  - - - Native americans which spoke their own language to communicate secretly
      - Many grew a new desire to stay in capitalists society
    - - increased employment
      - some military prescence
      - Zoot Suit Riots
        
        Mexican American Teenagers which were attackek by white sailors due to alleged "attacks"
    - - young women who were recruited to raise moral in soldiers
    - - faced intense discrimination
      - unable to remove prejudice
      - WRA (War Relocation Authority)
        
        "interned " japanese americans
    - - Chinese Exclusion Act repealed
      - the gov. wanted them on their side
      - racial tensions dimished somewhat
  - - - worked to remove prejudice from working females
      - limited child care
        
        juvenile crime rose
    - - symbol of the female industrial workforce
- - - - partly due to federal spending
        
        allowed for the creation of large manufacturing facilities ( in the West mostly)
        
        decreased unemployment and emplyed elderly, young, and women
  - - - 15% limit on wartime wage increases
    - - government provided workers that would automatically join the unions
    - - required unions to wait thirty days before striking and gave power to the president allowing them to seize struck war plants
- - - - The US regained control of the central Pacific
    - - control of the south pacific
    - - major defeat for the Americans
      - a result of the british plan to launch offensives around the Nazi empire instead of invading France
    - - major defeat for Germans against the Red Army
      - Hitler could no longer fight the eastern front
      - As a result Roosevelt agreed to an invasion of Sicily and later Italy
        
        were met with a German defensive line
        
        Allies captured Rome and knocked Italy out fo the war
        
        delayed the invasion of France and angered the Soviets
        
        loss of Sicily led to Mussolini's collapse and fleeing
  - - - gave the administartion authority to freeze prices, wages, and rents
      - Office of Price Administration
    - - powers over the economy
        
        it's power was given to the Office of War Mobilization
      - not as powerful as the War Industries Board of WWI
    - - funded new industries
- - - - produced airplanes, tanks, and ships at a significantly faster rate
    - - essential in countering German U-Boats
    - - Anti-Aircraft
      - Acoustic Undewater Mine
        
        Countermeasured by using sound waves to detonate the early
      - Germans produced rocket propelled bombs (V1 and V2)
        
        couldn't produce enough quickly enough to make a large difference
      - 4-engine bombers
        
        Boeing B17F + British Lancaster B1
        
        allowed for extensive bombing missions
      - Gee Navigation Device
        
        used electronic pulses to plot exact locations of pilots
        
        worked hand in hand with Oboe system
        
        alerted pilots when in range of targets