Mexican Americans and World War II, 1941-1945
Axis Powers – Germany, Italy, and Japan
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Emperor Hirohito
Allied Powers – England, France, Russia, & the U.S. later
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Joseph Stalin
FDR & Harry Truman
Chiang Kai-shek
Renouncement of Treaty of Versailles
Annexation of Austria
Appeasement of Hitler
Invasion of Poland
Blitzkrieg
Non-Aggression Pact
U.S. & Nye Committee
Sino-American Hostilities, 1931
China
Japan invades China in 1937
American Blockade of Japan
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Mexican Americans on the Eve of WWII
Mexican Americans and WWII
Mexican Americans in the Military
Reasons for Enlisting
Mexican American GI's
Texas
Pacific Fronts:
200th and 515th Coast Artillery Battalions
Bataan Peninsula
96th and 27th Infantry Divisions
Battle of Okinawa
158th Regimental Combat Team
Bushmasters
24th Infantry Division
Las Aguilas Aztecas Squadron 201
Escuadrón 201
Aguilas Aztecas (Aztec Eagles)
European Fronts:
Company E of the 141st Regiment
Cpt. Gabriel L. Navarrete
88th Infantry Division
Blue Devils
313th Infantry Regiment
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Mexican American Military Personnel
Dora Ocampo Quesada - served as 1st Lt. in the Nurse Corps
Military Distinctions and Decorations
Medals of Honor
Cleto Rodriguez
Macario Garcia
Latino Congressional Medals of Honor
WWII at Home
Liberty Bonds
Red Cross Campaigns
USO's
Senoritas USO
Employment Opportunities
Fair Employment Practice Committee
Mexican American Women War Workers
"Rosita la Remachadora"
Riveting Rositas
"Rosie the Riveter"
Braceros Program
Justice Delayed
Zoot Suit
Pachuco
Pachuca
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Malinchistas
Pachuquismo
Calo
"simon"
"ponte trucha"
"quvole"
Criminal Activity
Sleepy Lagoon Incident
Jose Diaz
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee
Zoot Suit Riots
U.S. Service Men
Vengeance Squads
Task Forces
End of the Riots
The Sinarquista Movement
Union Nacional Sinarquista (USN)
Operation Wetback
Internal Security Act
McCarran-Walter Act
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Fight vs. Discrimination
G.I. Generation
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Felix Longoria
Three Rivers, Texas
Hector P. Garcia
American G.I. Forum
Lyndon B. Johnson
Arlington National Cemetery
Post-Longoria Affair
Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD, 1948
American Race Relations
Good Neighbor Policy
Alonso Perales
Manuel Gonzalez
LULAC
Caucasian Race-Equal Privileges Resolution in 1943
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese Americans
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Little Men of Iron
George Akyama
Kenny Namba
War Relocation Camps - became official by way of...
Executive Order 9066
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Faustian Pact
Conclusion
End of the War
Europe
D-Day, 1944
Hitler’s Military Blunder
Stalingrad
The Race to Berlin
Horrors of German warfare –
Nazi Concentration Camps (Death Camps)
Holocaust
Auschwitz
Medical Experiments
Severe Torture
Execution
Gas Chambers
Black Wall
Nuremberg Trials
International Military Tribunal, 1945
Hitler
The Pacific:
Japanese Resistance
Albert Einstein
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Manhattan Project
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1945
Jornada del Muerte
Dropping the bomb
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Total Deaths
Radio Active Soil
US justifications for dropping the bomb:
Yalta Meeting
Conclusion
Arms Race
Cold War
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