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44 Cards in this Set
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"Flying Fortress"
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Boeing B-17 bomber
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Dachau
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1st concentration camp
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Fascism
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strong military dictatorship
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Appeasement
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English, French, and American policy that allowed Hitler to do whatever in order to avoid war
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Good Neighbor Policy
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US renounced the use of force in Western Hemisphere
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Gerald Nye
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claimed that WWI was caused by economic interests of "merchants of death"
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Neutrality Act
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Embargo on nations at war
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"merchants of death"
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ppl who profited from WWI, such as munitions makers
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Lincoln Brigade
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American volunteers in Spanish
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Munich Conference
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allowed Germany to annex part of Czech if he sought no more territory
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Lend-Lease
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US could lend, lease, or give arms to countries vital to US security
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Blitzkrieg
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lightening war, Nazi strategy of rapid attack
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American First Committee
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isolationist committee including Charles Lindbergh
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Wendell Willkie
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Republican that ran for pres in 1940
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Atlantic Charter
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joint press release b/w FDR and Churchill dealing with war aims
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Tojo
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prime minister of Japan
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Election 1940
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D - FDR, R - Willkie, Democrats win
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Henry Kaiser
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West coast shipbuilder who used mass production to rapidly produce battleships
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"Miracle Man"
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aka Henry Kaiser
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Election 1944
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D - FDR, R - Dewey, Democrats win
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Tom Dewey
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fought organized crime as US attorney, ran for R pres in 1944
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OPA
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Office of Price Administration, supervised the economy to avoid inflation
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"Rosie the Riveter"
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Norman Rockwell's women's labor propoganda
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WPB
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War Production Board
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GI Bill of Rights
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Searviceman's Readjustment Act, gave benefits to veterans
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WAC
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Women's Army Corps
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Ed Murrow
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Radio war comentator
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WAVES
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Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
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zoot suit
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gang-affiliated fashion of oversized clothing worn primarily by latino teens
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WASP
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Women's Airforce Service Pilots
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Ex Parte Endo
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Policy that US citizens that could prove loyalty could not be detained
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NWLB
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National War Labor Board
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Nisei
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American-born Japanese
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FEPC
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Fair Employment Practice Comission
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D Day
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June 6, 1944 - Allied attack on German held France
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CORE
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Congress Of Racial Equality
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VE Day
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May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe Day
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OWI
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Office of War Information
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Auschwitz
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concentration camp
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James Doolittle
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led bombers on 1st air raid in Tokyo
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Kamikaze
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suicidal plane and boat crash missions
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Manhattan Project
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project to develop the attomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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first target of the atomic bomb
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Yalta
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resort in Black Sea where Stalin, Churchill, and FDR met
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