World War II: On The Homefront Vocabulary Terms

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