Ch. 27 Americans In World War Ii

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War Production Board

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Increased military production and directed the conversion of existing factories to wartime production and supervised the building of new plants.

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Office of War Mobilization

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Coordinated all the production and distribution of consumer goods.

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Selective Training and Service Act

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Provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

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Douglas MacArthur

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Commanded the Filipino troops.

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Bataan Death March

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Japanese soldiers forced the more than 70,000 survivors to march through the jungle on their way to prison camp. More than 10,000 died.

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Chester Nimitz

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Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster.

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Battle of the Coral Sea

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Battle where the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. Was a very important Allied victory

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Battle of Midway

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The second major naval battle in the Pacific. U.S. victory proved crucial

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Erwin Tommel

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Commander of German Afrika Korps. Known as Desert Fox.

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Bernard Montgomery

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Commanded the British in their victory in the Battle of El Alamein.

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braceros

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Mexican farm and railroad workers taht came north to work in the Southwest during WWII

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zoot-suit riots

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U.S. sailors roamed the city attacking zoot-suit-clad Mexican American youths.

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internment

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Forced relocation and imprisonment

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Office of War Information

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Controlled the flow of war news at home

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Rosie the Riveter

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Symbol of patriotic female defense workers.

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A. Philip Randolph

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African American labor leader. Planned a march on Washington DC to protest discrimination against black workers.

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Fair Employment Practices Committee

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Investigated companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified applicants, regardless of race, were considered for job openings.

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Carlos E. Castañeda

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Served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas.

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Norman Mineta

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One imprisoned Japanese American who saw his neighbors being taken away for questioning by the FBI.

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sonar

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Equipment that uses sound waves to detect underwater objects

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genocide

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The deliberate annihilation of an entire people

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Commanded the invasion of Operation Torch for the U.S. and British soldiers

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George S. Patton

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Guided the U.S. forces during the invasion of Italy

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Battle of the Atlantic

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World War II naval campaign fought between German U-boats and Allied naval and air forces

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George C. Marshall

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Key Allied strategist who led the planning of Operation Overload

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D-Day

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June 6; WWII Allied invasion of France

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Omar Bradley

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Led the U.S. troops that landed at Normandy.

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Holocaust

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Nazi Germany's slaughter of European Jews

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Elie Wiesel

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Romanian-born writer who survived the Holocaust and wrote about the deep psychological scars left on concentration camp survivors.

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Battle of the Bulge

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WWII battle in which the Allies defeated the final German offensive

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Yalta Conference

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Meeting of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to plan for the postwar world

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island-hopping

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U.S. WWII strategy of conquering only the Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan

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kamikaze

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Japanese suicide planes during WWII

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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Last, largest, and most deciseve naval engagement in the Pacific during WWII; afterward, the Japanese fleet no longer seriosly threatended th eAllies

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Battle of Iwo Jima

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Penultimate island invasion of the Pacific campaign and possibly the most intense battle of WW II.

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Battle of Okinawa

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Landing day for Okinawa , the final land battle of the Pacific War, was Easter Sunday , 1 April 1945.

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Harry S. Truman

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America's new president

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Manhattan Project

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A United States project lasting from August 1942 to August 1946, which developed the atomic bomb.

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Albert Einstein

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German physicist.

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Enola Gay

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U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.