Across
- 2. Measure that assured fair hiring practices in jobs funded with government money. Desegregated hiring for government jobs during the war.
- 6. World-famous scientist who alerted Roosevelt of the need to develop atomic weapons
- 8. Key leader of the Manhattan Project
- 10. Homegrown gardens planted by Americans to raise vegetables for home use and leave more for the troops overseas
- 12. site in Hawaii of the United States Navy’s main Pacific base
- 13. Program in which laborers were brought from Mexico to work on American farms
- 17. Victory over racism in the US and Victory over Facism in Europe.
- 19. Code name for the program to develop an atomic bomb
- 20. Office of War Information, encouraged support of the war effort
- 21. A propaganda character to encourage women to join the war effort by working in factories to support the war industry
Down
- 1. Measure that forced Japanese Americans into internment camps due to a fear they may help the Japanese during World War II.
- 3. African American labor leader and promoter of the Double V Campaign
- 4. Native Americans who used native, tribal spoken languages to send coded messages for the US military.
- 5. Japanese general and prime minister during World War II
- 7. President of the the United States during World War II
- 9. Temporary imprisonment
- 11. Certificates sold by the Government to help raise funds for the war
- 14. Supreme Court case that upheld the government’s wartime internment policy
- 15. System that limits the amount of certain goods people can buy
- 16. Government and Commercial businesses involved in development, research and production of military material. Brought high demand for jobs
- 18. Women’s Army Corps; volunteer organization that provided clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for the army