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23 Cards in this Set
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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 government 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 U.S. history
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Douglas MacArthur
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was the the leader of the pacific
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Bataan Death March
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when the Japanese treated the U.S. and Filipino soldiers brutally
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Chester Nimitz
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commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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An Allied victory which stopped the Japanese advance into Australia
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Battle Of Midway
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i battle where the U.S. beat the Japanese which lost a lot of good stuff
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Erwin Rommel
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Know as Desert Fox the commander of German's Afrika Korps
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Bernard Montgomery
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The British commander in the desert and pushed out the Germans out of Egypt
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Office of War Information
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controlled the war news in the U.S.
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Rosie the Riveter
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the symbol of patriotic female defense workers
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A. Philip Randolph
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African American labor leader
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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investigated that all companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified applicants regard to race.
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carlos E. Castaneda
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university of texas history professor
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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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Mexican american sailors who rioted
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internment
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force relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans
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Norman Mineta
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one imprisoned Japanese kid
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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northwest african general for the british
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George S. Patton
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general who emerged as a leader in the north Africa campaign
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Battle of the Atlantic
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was the turn for the allies
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sonar
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new technology which used sound waves.
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