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War Production Board
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Board that directed the conversion of the existing factories to wartime production and supervised the building of new plants.
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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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Act that provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S. History.
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Douglas MacArthur
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General turned military adviser after retiring from the army in 1937.
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Bataan Death March
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March where Japanese forced over 70,000 survivors to go through the Jungle on their way to prison camp, and more than 10,000 died on the march.
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Chester Nimitz
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Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet who did not consider the attack on Pear Harbor a complete disaster.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Important allied victory that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.
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Battle of Midway
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Second major naval battle in the pacific in which the U.S. ambushed and prevented the Japanese attack which would have occurred.
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Erwin Rommel
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Known as the "Desert Fox" was a German commander who brought his troops to be ready to take the Suez Canal and the oil fields of the middle east.
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