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27 Cards in this Set
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head of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters |
philip randolph |
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major union for black railroad workers decide to try and secure jobs for blacks |
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
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on june 25 1941, FDR issued _______________- |
executive order 8802 |
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to enforce the order FDR created the _____________ the first federal civil rights agency since the reconstruction |
Fair Employment Practices Commision |
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the growth of SoCal and cities in the deep south created a new industrial regon known as the _________ |
sunbelt |
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in 1942 FDR created the _______________to coordinate govt housing programs |
national housing agency (NHA) |
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in LA the fear of juvenile crime and racism against mexican americans became linked in the __________ riots |
zoot suit |
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largest naval battle in history |
battle of leyte gulf |
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means divine wind in english |
kamikaze |
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german general whose success earned him the nickname desert fox commanded the afrika korps |
erwin rommel |
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major supply route for britain located in egypt |
suez canal |
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at the battle of --------- we were outnumbered and outfought |
kasserine |
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eisenhower fired the general who led the attack and put ----------- in charge |
general patton |
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system in which merchant ships travel with naval vessels for protection |
convoy system |
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city that controlled the volga river and was a major railroad junction was the key to the attack |
stalingrad |
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battle that put germans on the defensive |
stalingrad |
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at the _________ conference FDR and Churchhill agreed to step up the bombing of germany |
casablanca |
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general eisenhower comanded the invasion of _______________- with patton and montgomery headong the ground forces |
sicily |
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conference where stalin and churchill met to make agreements about the war |
tehran conference |
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at cairo, roosevelt selected eisenhower to be in command of _____________ |
operation overlord |
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hitler had fortified the french coast along the english chanel all the way up along the coast at norway which would be known as the ______________-- |
atlantic wall |
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would be in charge of the creation if the atlantic wall |
erwin rommel
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eisenhowers planning staff referred to the day any operation began by the letter __ |
D |
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usa-utah usa- omaha britain- gold juno- canada britain and france- sword |
remember those |
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commander of american forces in utah and omaha |
omar bradley |
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dirt walls, several feet thick covered by shrubbery |
hedgerows |
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french civilians who had seceretly organized to resist german occupation- staged rebellion in paris |
french resistance |
