KIN 2504 Lecture : Lecture5
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Preparing for war: double v, building a military, rationing (opa, women in military and workforce. The priority of the european theater: north africa to italy, russia absorbs losses and demands second front, d-day and northern france, total war/ taking berlin. Pacific theater: executive order 9066, island by island, the bomb. War time movie made specifically for support of african american. How can groups create a free world with a jim crow segregated army. Many aa did see the war as another opportunity to argue the case. Better opportunity to fight racial oppression than the first wwi. Racial superiority could have been claimed before, but now the bad guys. Segregated military protested, jim crow army can"t fight for a free world . War fought on every continent with civilian population as fair game, destroy morality of the other side. Remaking the public dialogue, issues of race and gender.