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Hand-drawn suitcase scenes distinguish Japanese American incarceration, Mexican Bracero contract labor, Nisei military service, and Native wartime communications work.

Internment, the Bracero Program and Minority Wartime Experiences

Study Japanese American incarceration, the Bracero Program and minority wartime experiences for CLEP. Compare authority, service, labor and civil rights.

Hand-drawn double-V newspaper pages connect Black wartime service, industrial work, civil-rights organizing, and families migrating by train while facing housing barriers.

The Double V Campaign and the Second Great Migration

Study the Double V Campaign and Second Great Migration for CLEP. Connect Randolph, FEPC, Black newspapers, Freeman Field and military desegregation.

Hand-drawn women rivet and inspect an aircraft wing beside wartime telephone and military service, a child-care center, and scenes of household labor and postwar job displacement.

Rosie the Riveter, Child Care and Women’s Wartime Work

Hand-drawn radar operators, refugee scientists, penicillin fermentation workers, and a blood-banking physician connect wartime research to production and medical care beside a guarded atomic research site.

Wartime Science, Medicine and Technology

Hand-drawn interlocking gears connect factory workers, farming, and federal coordination beside wartime production, contract oversight, ration coupons, wages, and bond financing.

The War Economy, Federal Power and the End of the Depression

Hand-drawn navigation dividers, codebreaking, carriers, and island routes connect Pacific strategy with uncertain surrender decisions and a Japanese family beside a damaged city.

The Pacific War and the Atomic Bomb

Hand-drawn braided rope connects Atlantic convoys, Allied planning, North African and Italian routes, Normandy logistics, the Soviet advance, and aid to liberated civilians.

The European Theater and Allied Grand Strategy

Hand-drawn document pier connects American neutrality debates, Roosevelt and Congress, aid shipments and naval escorts with oil sanctions and Pearl Harbor.

From Neutrality Acts to Pearl Harbor

Hand-drawn industrial workers open a factory door toward collective bargaining while farm and domestic workers face exclusions; a sleeping-car porter and redlined neighborhood show distinct labor and housing histories.

The CIO, Labor’s Breakthrough and the New Deal’s Exclusions

Hand-drawn Roosevelt proposes extra chairs as Congress objects, while nine judicial seats, a balance scale, and a turning law-book page distinguish the failed court plan from changed economic-regulation doctrine.

The Court Fight and the Constitutional Revolution of 1937

Hand-drawn radio sound waves surround Roosevelt with distinct objections about property, redistribution, pensions, labor rights, and racial exclusion during the New Deal.

Critics of the New Deal from Left and Right

Hand-drawn Frances Perkins and community members weave a patchwork safety net for work relief, insurance, and family assistance while farm and domestic workers stand beyond its original coverage.

The Second New Deal, Social Security, and the Federal Safety Net