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War Production Board
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directed the conversion of existing factories to wartime production and supervised the building of new plants 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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law that required all men age 21 to 35 to register to join the army
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Douglas MacArthur
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General and military adviser for the Philippines
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese soldiers forced the more than 70,000 Bataan survivors to mach through the jungle on their way to prison camp
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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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important first allied victory in the Pacific Theatre over the Japanese at New Guinea
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Battle of Midway
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second major battle in the Pacific and the U.S. could destroy a huge part of the Japanese Navy
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Erwin Rommel
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German Afrika Korps commander, also known as Desert Fox
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Bernard Montgomory
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British General, who defeated the Germans in Egypt
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Office of War Information
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controlled the flow of war new at home
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Rosie the Riveter
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symbol of patriotic female defense workers
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A. Philip Randolph
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African American labor leader, planed a march on Washington to protest discrimination against black workers
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Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
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investigated companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified applicants were considered for a job
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Carlos E. Castaneda
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History Professor at University of Texas improved working conditions for Mexican Americns
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braceros
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Mexican farm and railroad workers came north to work in the Southwest during WW2
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zoot-suit riots
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U.S sailors roamed Los Angeles attacking zoot-suit clad Mexican American youths
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internment
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forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans
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Norman Mineta
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Japan American prisoner who introduced legislation seeking reparations for Japanese American internees
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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General who commanded the invasion force of U.S and British soldiers in North Africa
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George S. Patton
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General who guided the U.S forces in the Italy Invasion
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Battle in the Atlantic between german U-boats and Allied forces
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sonar equipment
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uses sound waves to detect underwater objects
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George C. Marshall
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Key strategist in operation overlord
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D-Day
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Allied landing in the Normandy to take France over
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Omar Bradley
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led the U.S troops that landed at Normandy
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Holocaust
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Nazi Germany's systematic 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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survivor of the Holocaust and writer, he described the scar left on concentration camps
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle in northern belgium where U.S forces defeated some 200,000 germans
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Yalta Conference
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President FDR, Winston Churchill,and Joseph Stalin met to plan for the postwar peace
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island hopping
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U.S troops attacked and seize certain strategic Japanese- held islands
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Japanese naval counterattack, that lead to the most decisive defeat of the Japanese
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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U.S soldiers took 6 weeks to take this island and several thousand died
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kamikaze
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suicide planes
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Battle of Okinava
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the bloodiest war of the Pacific theatre
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Harry S Truman
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New President after FDR died
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Manhattan Project
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effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb
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Albert Einstein
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German physicist moved to U.S and inviter of the relativity theory
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Enola Gay
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B-29 bomber that dropped the first atom bomb over Hiroshima
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