GermanAxis (Italy and Japan)Alex (France, Portland, Britain)BlitzkriegNuremberg LawsSecretary of LaborWilliam DoakRepatriationOkiesDust BowlPreparednessMilitaryDuring the first two years of the global conflict, the United States supplied Britain, the Soviet Union, and China through the Lend-Lease Act which was signed into law in 1941, as well as deploying the U.S. military to replace the British invasion forces in Iceland.European alliesWar productionFarmworker shortageBracero ProgramThe Great MigrationWomen and labor350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces, and between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent.Rosie the RiveterImages that represent the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during WWII. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military.Women’s Army CorpsOveta Culp HobbyNAACPPhilip RandolphBrotherhood of Sleeping Car PortersIn 1925, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter (shorter work period and better wages) in the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It merged in 1978 with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks.March on Washington1941–1946, organized by A. Philip Randolph that was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.Fair Employment PracticesThe committee implemented US Executive Order 8802 in 1941. These agencies enforce laws that offer greater protection to workers, such as protection from discrimination because you are married or unmarried, have children or because of your sexual orientation.Executive Order #8802It was signed FDR on June 25, 1941, to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry.Committee on Civil Rights(1) to examine the condition of civil rights in the United States, (2) to produce a written report of their findings, and (3) to submit recommendations on improving civil rights in the United StatesThe States’ RightsGermanNazi Party (NSDAP). Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a fascist totalitarian state which controlled nearly all aspects of life.Axis (Italy and Japan)Italy and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist interests in the mid-1930s. It was a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called "Pact of Steel", with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to theintegration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.Alex (France, Portland, Britain)Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslav).BlitzkriegA military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.Nuremberg LawsAnti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany on September 15, 1935,marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influences from Aryan society.Secretary of LaborFrances Perkins helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition, was the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency.William DoakThe American labor leader. He was the Vice-President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and served as Secretary of Labor.RepatriationBureau of Immigration launched raids to identify immigrants (Mexican) liable for deportation. Doak believed that removal of illegal aliens would free jobs for native-born citizens during the Great Depression.OkiesDust Bowl Migrants from Oklahoma & the Plains. As the "double whammy" of drought and depression deepened on the Great Plains, more and more farmers gave up or were forced off of their land.Dust BowlThe Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US. Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon.PreparednessA campaign led by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt to strengthen the military of the United States after the outbreak of World War I.MilitaryDuring the first two years of the global conflict, the United States supplied Britain, the Soviet Union, and China through the Lend-Lease Act which was signed into law in 1941, as well as deploying the U.S. military to replace the British invasion forces in Iceland.European alliesEurope is set in the spring of 1941 and covers the conflicts between Germany and the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States across Europe, the Atlantic, North Africa, and the Middle East.War productionThe War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President established it in 1942, with Executive Order 9024.Farmworker shortageFarmers were being asked to produce much more food with fewer and fewer workers. More and more young men were being drafted or enlisted in the military.Bracero ProgramA series of agreements, initiated by a 1942 exchange of diplomaticnotes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation oftemporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States.The Great MigrationDuring the 1940s, the West's black population grew by 443,000 (33 percent), with most of the newcomers settling in the coastal cities of California, Oregon, and Washington. Most of these migrants were already urban laborers who came from the cities of the South.Women and labor350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces, and between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent.Rosie the RiveterImages that represent the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during WWII. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military.Women’s Army Corps Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby was appointed the first Director of the WAAC. Members of the WAC were the first women other than nurses to serve within the ranks of the United States Army.Oveta Culp HobbyThe first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and first director of the Women's Army Corps.NAACPThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of