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Naval Air Station was built in Jacksonville FL
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Cities with war industries had to find room for thousands of arriving workers. Trent cities and parks with tiny trailers were springing up.
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99th Pursuit Squadron, trained in Tuskegee Alabama
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Stated “there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.”
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Creation of Women’s Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), not part of the regular Army
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All major industries and 200,000 companies converted to war production
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Roosevelt created the NHA to coordinate government housing programs
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Federal government arranged for Mexican farmworkers to help harvest crops in the Southwest as part of the Bracero Program
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Allowed War Department to declare any part of the United States a military zone as needed.
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C0 replaces Women’s Army Corps (WAWomen’s Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
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After rumors of zoot-suitors attacking several sailors, 2,500 soldiers and sailors attack Mexican American neighborhoods
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African American face suspicion and intolerance. Fighting between white and African American teens triggered a citywide riot that left 25 African Americans and 9 whites dead
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Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 gave the military the power rot exclude people of ?Japanese descent from areas that were deemed important to U.S. national defense
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