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27 Cards in this Set
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George Marshall |
Army chief of staff general |
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Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
U.S. army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat positions. |
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A. Philip Randolph |
president and founder of Sleeping Car Porters and was the nations most respected African American labor leader |
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Manhattan Project |
the U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II. |
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Office of Price Administration |
an agency established by Congress to control inflation during World War II. |
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War Production Board |
an agency established during World War II to coordinate the production of military supplies by U.S. Industries. |
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rationing |
a restriction of people’s right to buy unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the Military. |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
the US general during WW2 |
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D-Day |
a name given to June 6, 1944—the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II. |
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Omar Bradley |
he unleashed massive air and land bombardment against the enemy of St. Lo |
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George Patton |
led tanks |
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Battle of the Bulge |
a month-long battle of World War II, in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war. |
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V-E Day |
a name given to May 8, 1945, “Victory in Europe Day” on which General Eisenhower’s acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II in Europe. |
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Harry Truman |
took over for FDR when he died and ordered the Atomic bomb to be dropped and ended the war. |
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Douglas MacArthur |
he was the commander of US forces in the Pacific |
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Chester Nimitz |
he was the commander of the US naval forces in the Pacific and was the main reason that the united States was able to win in the Pacific |
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Battle of Midway |
it was a battle between the US and Japan over the Midway Island which was a major strategic point in the Pacific which the US won and was the first Japanese defeat |
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kamikaze |
involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target. |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer |
the development of the atomic bomb couldn't have happened without his scientific genius |
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Hiroshima
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the Enola Gay dropped little boy on the city to get the Japanese to surrender quickly |
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Nagasaki |
Fat Man was dropped on the city and led to the Japanese surrender in 1945 |
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Nuremberg trials |
the court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes. |
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GI Bill of Rights |
a name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans. |
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James Farmer |
civil rights activist after the war |
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Congress of Racial Equality |
an interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities. |
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internment |
confinement or a restriction in movement, especially under wartime conditions. |
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Japanese American Citizens League |
an organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during World War II. |
