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War Production Board
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Roosevelt created it to increase military production and to create jobs
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Office of War Mobilization
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coordinated all govt agencies involved in the war effort.
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Selective training act
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provided the first peace time act.
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douglas macathur
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commender in the philippines
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Bataan Death March
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It was a march where 70,000 survivors from battles were forced to march to a prison camp when more than 10,000 died
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Chester Nimitz
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an admiral who did not consider the attack on pearl harbor a complete disaster
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battle of the coral sea
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the allies lost a ship but stopped the japs
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battle of midway
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the second major naval battle in the pacific
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erwin rommel
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a german leader who led toops into egypt
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bernard montgomery
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a british general in egypt
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Office of war information
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controls what the public knows about the war
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rosie the riveter
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a symbol of women workers
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philip randolph
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an african african labor leader
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Fair Employment practices committee
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helped people get hired
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carlos castaneda
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a texas professor that was in the FEPC
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braceros
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mexican farm and railroad workers
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zoot-suit riots
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us sailors attacked mexicans
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internment
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forced imprisonment of japanese
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Norman Mineta
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lived in an internment camp after war he became a representative in the house
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Dwight Eisenhower
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commanded the invasion force of Us and british soldiers in north africa
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George s patton
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He was leader in north african campaign
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battle of the atlantic
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the battle in the atlantic
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sonar
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could detect underwater objects
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george c marshall
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led operation overlord
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d-day
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when we invaded normandy
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omar bradley
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he led the troops who landed at normandy
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holocaust
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the mass murdering of people in germany
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genocide
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the mass killing of a race
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Battle of the Bulge
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when some 200,000 Germans attacked an initial u.s. force of about 80,000 troops
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Yalta Conference
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When Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill planed for the postwar peace.
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Island Hopping
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a strategy when the troops would attack and seize only certain strategic Japanese held islands rather than trying to recapture all of them.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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the last largest and most decisive naval engagement in the pacific
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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it lasted six weeks where several thousand marines and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers where killed
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kamikaze
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suicide planes
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battle of okinawa
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it was possibly the bloodiest of the pacific war
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Harry S. Truman
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he was the new president during the war
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Manhattan project
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the effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb since 42'
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Albert Einstein
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the wizard of Menlo park who was a great physicist and inventor
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Enola Gay
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the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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