WWII Homework Notes Check

Executive Order 9066

• Ordered all Japanese children to stop attending school

• Banned Japanese Americans from the military

• All Japanese Americans living on the West Coast are forced to leave their homes

• Japanese Americans are forced to move to Japan

What is internment?

What Supreme Court case held up the constitutionality of Japanese internment because of "military necessity?"

• Minoru Yasui v. US

• Korematsu v. US

• Marbury v. Madison

• Hirabayashi v. US

This operation was started to defend the United States from Germany developing atomic weapons?

• Operation Brooklyn

• Einstein Project

• Operation Oppenheimer

• Manhattan Project

True or False: President Truman warned Japan before the US opted to use atomic weapons.

• True

• False

What did the GI Bill do? How did it help soldiers returning from the war?

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

• A group of African-American pilots who served during World War II

• A Native American tribe who fought in the American Revolution

• A group of women who worked in factories during World War II

• A union of black civil rights activists

True or False: The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) worked in combat roles.

• True

• False

What is the significance of this image? Explain.

What are three things Americans did on the Homefront to help the war effort? Did any of these things have overlap from prior points in US History?