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War Production Board (WPB)
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World War II agency, that was in charge of converting factories to war production.
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Office of War Mobilization (OWM)
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Federal agency that coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort during World War II.
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Selective Training and Service Act
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(1940) Law providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
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Douglas MacArthur
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General that commanded the filipino troops.
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Bataan Death March
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(1942) Brutal forced march of U.S. and Filipino prisoners during World War OO up the Bataan Peninsula; more than 10,000 died
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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(1942) World War II battle in which the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.
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Battle of Midway
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(1942) World War II battle in which the Allied forces crippled Japan's navy
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Erwin Rommel
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Commander of the German Afrika Korps
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Bernard Montgomery
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Commander of the British
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Office of war Information
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U.S. agency that controlled the flow of war news at home during World War II.
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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 (FEPC)
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Group created in 1941 to prevent discrimination in war industries and government jobs.
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Carlos E. Castaneda
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University of Texas history professor who served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas
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Braceros
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Mexican farm and railroad workers who came to the United States during World War II as a result of a U.S.-Mexican agreement.
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Zoot-suit riots
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(1943) Series of attacks by U.S. sailors against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles.
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Internment
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Forced relocation and imprisonment of people.
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Norman Mineta
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An imprisoned Japanese American
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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General who commanded the invasion farce of U.S. and British Soldiers
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George S. Patton
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General who had emerged as a leader during the North Africa campaign, guided the U.S. forces.
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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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Sonar
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Equipment that uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.
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George C. Marshall
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U.S. Army chief of staff and key Allied strategist.
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D-Day
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(1944) June 6; World War II Allied invasion of France.
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Omar Bradley
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General who 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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Genocide
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Deliberate annihilation of an entire people.
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Elie Wiesel
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Romanian-born writer who survived the Holocaust.
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Battle of the Bulge
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(1944) World War II battle in which the Allies defeated the final German offensive.
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Yalta Conference
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(1945) 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. World War II strategy of conquering only the Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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(1944) Last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific during World War II; afterward, the Japanese fleet no longer seriously threatened the Allies
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Kamikaze
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Japanese suicide planes during World War II.
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Battle of Okinawa
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(1945) Bloody battle in the Pacific during World War II; resulted in an Allied victory.
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Harry S. Truman
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President that faced a grave decision, had to decide whether the U.S. should use the atomic bomb.
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Manhattan Project
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Secret U.S. project begun in 1942 to develop an atomic bomb.
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Albert Einstein
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Physicist who moved form Germany to the U.S.
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Enola Gay
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The U.S. B-29 bomber
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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(1945) Six-week struggle for control of a key Pacific island that resulted in an Allied victory.
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