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39 Cards in this Set
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War production board
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It was mainly just to increase military production
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Office of war mobilization
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It coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort
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Selective training service act
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In summer of 1940 the U.S. Called the national guard to active duty were they passed this
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Douglas macarthur
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Commanded over 110,000 filipino troops
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Bataan death march
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began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners
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Chester nimitz
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He did not even concider the attack on pearl harbor
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Battle of the coral sea
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It was a very very very very important allied victory
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Battle of midway
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It had tooken place early in june of 1942 seeking to.cruch the us
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Erwin rommel
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He was known as the desert fox
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Bernard montgomery
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Lead the british and turned the short age to there advantage
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Office of war information
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The United States Office of War Information was a U.S. government agency created during World War II to consolidate government information services
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Rosie the viveter
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The symbol of patriotic female defense workers
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A. Philip randolph
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He had planned a march on washington dc
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Fair employment
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Was created by roosevelt to enforce order on june 25 1941
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Carlos E
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Served as an assistant tothe chair of the FEPC and worked to improve the working conditions
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Braceros
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They had came north to work im the southwest durring ww11
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Zoot suit riots
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Sailors roamed the city attacking zoot suit clad mexican american youths
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Internment
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It forced relocation and imprisonment of japanees americans
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Norman mineta
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Was a nisei from san jose california
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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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He had emerged as a leader during the north american campaign.
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Battle of the atlantic
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It began to start turning into the allies favor
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Sonar
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It uses soundwAves so that it can detect other things that are under the water
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George c marshall
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He wasa. Us army chief of staff
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D day
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When allies landed farther to the south in normandy
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Omar bradley
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He lead the us troops that landed at normandy
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Holocaust
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Was a nazi germanys occupation of france and other countries in western europe
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Genocide
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In 1941 germans began constructing camps specifically for this
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Elie wiesel
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Found thousands of starving survivers in death camps and he was one
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Battle of the bulge
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Some. 200000 germans attacked an initial us force
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Yalta conference
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It was to plan the post war piece.
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Island hopping
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As early as 1942 the us high command had adopted this strategy
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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 two jima
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Lasted six weeks there was several thousand marines
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Kamikaze
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These were suicide planes that killed lots of jewssssss
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Battle of okinawa
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Were perhaps the bloodiest of the pacific war
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Harry s truman
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This faced a grave dicision
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Manhattan project
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The effort of a group of scientists who were working on a atomic bomb
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Albert einstein
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He moved from germany to the united states and he was almost as smart as me.
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