WWII Study Guide Know the following people: Doolittle led raid on Tokyo and all ships were lost. Boosted moral. MacArthur general in the pacific. ‚ Eisenhower general in Europe‚ D-day invasion‚ Neville Chamberlain British Prime Minister before Churchill‚ appeasement policies‚ Winston Churchill‚ Prime Minister of GB during war‚ big three Tojo‚ Main general and prime minister of Japan‚ main guy Hirohito‚ emperor of Japan during war‚ mainly a figure head Yamamoto Main admiral of the Jap fleet.
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Midterm Report THEATRE 100 Chicano Theatres Chicano Theatre is a relatively young genre of theatre in comparison to the traditional theatre that date back centuries. It was in the 1960’s that the term Chicano became prevalent in the United States. Chicano is used only of Mexican Americans‚ not of Mexicans living in Mexico. It was originally an informal term in English (as in Spanish)‚ and the spelling of the first recorded instance in an American publication followed the Spanish custom
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Immigration of Mexicans into California grew rapidly in this period. Many youngsters of the second generation didn’t fit in the American society. They started wearing fancy and distinctive clothes called "Zoot Suits". Serious problems with sailors (it was the time of WW II) caused the "Zoot Suit Riots". Between 1941 and 1945 over half a million Puerto Ricans arrived in the United States. Most settled in New York City‚ which led to the formation of new gangs. Also during the 1920’s the African American
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are a few. Mary (and her Girls)‚ at number 201‚ keeps The Casbah‚ a "House of Pleasure." Next door (no.203) is Zoot and The Boys. The Jungles live at 205 ‚ the narrator at 207 and Last-Knight the Barber at 209. Life is hard and prospects are poor but "what a wicked and enjoyable place the world was." The characters find peace in their routine which hardly varies from week to week. Mary‚ Zoot and Pretty-Boy are legends. Mary‚ a Pastor’s daughter and accomplished baton-twirler‚ is humorously portrayed
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Edward J. Escobar‚ the author and a member of the Chicana and Chicano studies and history department at the Arizona state University‚ writes about the corrupt and the inhumanity of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and their history dating back in the 1940s. The author narrates about the Los Angeles police who had barbarous behaviors and racial discrimination against the minority group. The brutal actions that led to the name Bloody Christmas involved officers beating up seven men and leaving
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minorities. During World War II‚ The U.S discriminated minorities and treated women as second class citizens. Mexican-Americans‚ for example‚ faced many racist attacks. In LA‚ thousands of white people beat Mexican-Americans that were wearing a zoot-suit.
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to take his aggressions out on. In another incident‚ a group of Mexican Americans known as Zoot Suitors were targeted and beaten by Navy sailors for allegedly using excessive amounts of fabric for clothing. In doing so‚ Mexican Americans were considered to be hurting the war efforts of conserving which meant they were unpatriotic. This claim couldn’t be farther from the truth; in essence the attack on the Zoot Suitors was simply an attack on a race. Another case of racism can be witnessed in the deportation
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considered one of the greatest tragedies of all time with over 50 million casualties (White). It’s wrong to say that it was only the Nazis and their treatment of the Jewish people. There was mistreatment of minorities on both sides. For example the Zoot Suit Riots‚ in which Anglo-American servicemen attacked Latino-Americans under the belief that they were not American. But during the war‚ Latino-Americans sought to prove the opposite. Through their contributions‚ despite their struggles on and off the
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racism. Big Red’s only outlet of success was through criminal activities. He took pride in being a self-made issuer of marijuana‚ alcohol‚ and prostitutes. Big Red flaunted his success by exhibiting himself as a “Harlem archetype”‚ dressing in bright zoot suits‚ long gold chains‚ and unkinking his naturally curly-qued hair. Big Red manifested his anger toward racial standards in a desperate quest for respect. He so strongly pursued validation that he left the love of his life for a white woman‚ for enticing
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S.‚ especially during the Great Depression. During this era‚ the United States sponsored a Mexican Repatriation Act‚ that encouraged all Mexican immigrants to go back to Mexico voluntarily. However‚ many were removed by force‚ and beaten. The Zoot Suit Riots (1943)‚ were racial violence issues against Latinos (e.g.
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