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23 Cards in this Set
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BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
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1st U.S. naval victory, stopped Japanese troop transports toward New Guinea
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BATTLE OF MIDWAY
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Turning point of the war in the Pacific, showed aircraft carriers were more important than battleships
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WAR POWERS ACT
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President could change govt agencies to allot materials and facilities needed for defense
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WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
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Coordinated industrial covnersion from manufacturing to war production
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REVENUE ACT OF 1942
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made everyone a taxpayer, provided $7 billion in increased revenue
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OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION
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controlled wartime inflation and price fixing becuase of shortages of goods. opposed wage and price freezes and created rationing system
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SMITH-CONNALLY LABOR DISPUTES ACT
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authorized govt to seize plants useful to the war
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RIGHT-TO-WORK
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state laws- any worker union member or not could be hired
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CLOSED SHOP
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all employees in company had to be union members
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"ROSIE THE RIVETER"
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cover girl for war propoganda for women joining war effort
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A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH
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organized march on washington and demanded an end to racial discrimination
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON
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led to exec order- nondiscrimination clause in defense contracts
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FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMISSION
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sought to eliminate racail descrimination in jobs
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"DOUBLE V" CAMPAIGN
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popular slogan in black communities for victory at home and abroad
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SMITH v. ALLWRIGHT
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s.c. decision outlawed all white democratic primaries in Texas
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BRACERO PROGRAM
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offered yearly contracts, better wages, and border transportation to job sites for mexican farm workers
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"ZOOT SUIT" RIOTS
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LA riots of mex-american soldiers assaulting hispanics, blacks and fillipinos
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NISEI
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japanese americans
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WAR RELOCATION CAMPS
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internment camps where jap-americans were held against will during war
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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
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Roosevelts proclamation saying what would only end the war
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GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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led operation "overlord" to victory in WWII and became pres in 1953
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"OPERATION OVERLORD"
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assault on hitlers atlantic wall, climax of WWII
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D-DAY
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Allied amphibious assault on beaches of normandy, established foothold in europe, became base for allied troops
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