World War Two Home Front

Office of Price Administration limits availability of essential items to make sure there was enough for the military

• Neutrality

• Rationing

• Bracero Program

• zoot suit

Navajos who used words from their own language to represent military terms

• 442nd Regimental Combat Team

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Lend Lease Act

• Rationing

baggy pleated pants and knee length jacket worn by many Mexican-American youth (also the name of the wearers)

• Bracero Program

• zoot suit

• Rationing

• Neutrality

first African American unit in the air force

• Tuskegee Airmen

• "Rosie the Riveter"

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Bracero Program

December 7, 1941 surprise attack on Hawaiian naval base, brought U.S. into WWII

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Pearl Harbor

• Navajo Code Talkers

U.S. government forced 120, 000 Japanese-Americans descent into internment camps

• "Rosie the Riveter"

• Bracero Program

• Japanese Internment Camps,1942

• Tuskegee Airmen

federal government brought Mexicans to farm and work on railroads

• Bracero Program

• Tuskegee Airmen

• "Rosie the Riveter"

• zoot suit

President at end of World War Two, made decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan

• 442nd Regimental Combat Team

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Japanese American combat team that became the most decorated military unit in American history

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• 442nd Regimental Combat Team

President for most of World War Two

• Navajo Code Talkers

• 442nd Regimental Combat Team

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt