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War Production Board
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to increase military production
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Office of War Mobilization
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coordinated all goverenment agencies involved in the war effort
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Selective Training and Service Act
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provided for the first peacetime draft in US history
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Douglas McArthur
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US General defending the Philippines
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Bataan Dreath March
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10,000 died japs forced 70,000 to march through a jungle to a death camp
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Chester nimitz
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commander of the US fleet
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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important allied victory which stopped the Japs advance into Australia
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Battle of Midway
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Second major naval battle in pacific
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Erwin Rommel
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German general
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Bernard Montogomery
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British General turned his shortage to an advatage
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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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a popular song the symbol of patriotic female defense workers
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A. Philip Randolph
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a black dude planned a march WA DC to protest discrimination against black workers.
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Fair Emplyment Practices Committee
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investigated companies angered in sidered for job openings.
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Carlos E Castaneda
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Texas professor served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC
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Fair Employment
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what roosevelt created
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internment
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forced relocation
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Norman Mineta
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a imprisoned Japanese American
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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commanded the invasion force of u.s. and British soldiers.
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George S. Patton
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a general wjp jad emerged as a ;eader diromg tje MA campaign
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