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| Wartime military strategy made by Roosevelt and Churchill; freedom from fear, want, and tyrrany; free trade, end of territorial seizures, and disarmament |
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| Japan in Axis alliance; Japan wanted to have control of Pacific; U.S. cut off Japanese assets and cut off oil supply when Japan occupied Indochina |
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| passed by Congress after US declared war on Germany;President could create new agencies, censorship programs, seize US property owned by foreigners |
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| US could outproduce its enemies; large industrial base, abundant resources, and huge potential working force |
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| American Homefront Economy |
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| economic boom; more affordable housing; farmers couldnt keep up; more women and minorities |
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| provided money for education and housing for soldiers |
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| Japanese Internment Camps |
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| many West coast Japanese families were sent after Pearl Harbor; even if they were American-born citizens; Korematsu vs. US was a supreme court decision that upheld the constitutionality of internment camps |
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| June 1943; sailors searched the streets of LA looking for Mexican-Americans wearing zoot suits that represented unpatriotism |
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