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19 Cards in this Set
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Selective Serive Act
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Expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet forces needs
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General George Marshall
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pushed for the formation of a women's Auxillary Army Force
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Nisei
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Japanee's American who had been born in US and were considered American citizens
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Operation Torch
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an invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Commanded Operation Torch, responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany
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General George Patton
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announced the French liberation, "Today I spat in the Seine."
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D-day
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On June 6, 1944 is the day whe the allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II
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Harry S. Truman
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Made the decision to drop the atomic bomb
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Battle of the Bulge
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battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
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V-E Day
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the date when the Allies during the Second World War formally celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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Admiral Chester Nimitz
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Commander in Cheif of Pacific Forces during WWII. His countires last surviving fllet admiral
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Manhattan Project
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Secret american effort to build an atomic bomb with Britiain
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Truman's decision
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drop the bomb
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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city where bomb was dropped
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United Nations
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An international organization to promote peace, security, and economic development
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Nuremberg Trials
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A series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, conducted by the victorious Allies, which charged high-ranking Nazis and German leaders with war crimes and "crimes against humanity."
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provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GIs or G. I.s) as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses.
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G.I. Bill of rights
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A. Phillip Randolph
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socialist that was active in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons
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