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Destroyer for Bases Deal

Exchange US Destroyer (anti-submarine ships) for British Naval bases around world.

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Four Freedoms Speech

FDR’s speech to Congress in Jan. 1941 describing the threat of the Axis Powers

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Atlantic Conference

Between FDR and British PM Winston Churchill where they agreed on their objectives in a post WWII world: self determination, no territorial expansion, free trade

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Self-determination

A country’s ability to be autonomous

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No Strike for Closed Shop Pledge

Deal struck between labor and business in order to maintain war production

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Anti-inflation act

allowed President to freeze prices and wages, set rations.

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Revenue Act of 1942

created new high tax brackets – highest income brackets taxed at 88% to pay for cost of war

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Victory Gardens

Program encouraged by government in order to send needed commercial food to the war effort

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Ultra and Magic

Intelligence code breaking programs by American and British

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Korematsu v. United States

Ruling affirming Japanese internment

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Code Talkers

Native American radio operators that sent encrypted messages in the field

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Braceros Program

Government program working with Mexican government to recruit Mexican labor workers in the farm industry

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Zoot Suit Riots

Racial tension between white communities (include naval servicemen on leave) and Mexican populations that led to violence

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Detroit Race Riots

Racial tension between white communities and African American populations resulting from the Greta Migration

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Double V Campaign

Movement that called upon African Americans to support victory over America’s foreign enemies and victory over racism in the United States.

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Wacs and Waves

Army and Navy women in non-combat service

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