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40 Cards in this Set
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War Production Board
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increases military production
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Douglas MacArthur
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General at the Philippines
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Office of War Mobilization
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coordinated all government agencies
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Selective Training and Service Act
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provided for the first peacetime draft in US history
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Bataan Death March
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walk that Us and Filipino soldiers were forced to walk-10,000 died
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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battle stopped the Japanese advance on Australia
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Battle of Midway
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took place early in June 1942
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Erwin Rommel
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Commander of German Afrika Korps
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Bernard Montgomery
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turned his shortage to their advantage
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Office of War Information
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controlled the flow of war news 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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planned a march on Washington DC
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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investigated companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified applicants were considered for jobs
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Carlos E. Castaneda
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served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexicans in Texas
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Braceros
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came north to work in the Southwest during WWII
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Zoot-Suit Riots
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US sailors roamed attacking zoot-suit-clad Mexican Americans
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Internment
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forced relocation and imprisonment
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Norman Mineta
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a nisei from San Jose, California
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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commanded the invasion force of US and British soldiers
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George S. Patton
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emerged as a leader during the North Africa campaign, guided the US forces
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Battle of the Atlantic
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German U-boats continued to take a staggering toll on Ally ships, lives, and supplies
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Sonar
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used sound waves to detect underwater objects
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George C. Marshall
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chief of staff and key Allied strategist
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D-Day
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attack on Nazi's in Normandy on June 6, 1944
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Omar Bradley
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led the US 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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Romanian born writer
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Battle of the Bulge
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200,000 germans attacked a US force of 80,000 troops to put a bulge in them
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Yalta Conference
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plan for the postwar peace
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Island-Hopping
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troops would attack and seize only certain strategic Japanese islands
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement int he Pacific
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Japanese forces fought as fiercely as ever
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Kamikaze
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suicie planes
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Douglas MacArthur
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general at the Philipines
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Battle of Okinawa
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Japanese troops dug in deeply and fought to the death
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Harry S. Truman
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the new president
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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 since 1942
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Albert Einstein
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helped fix the Atomic Bomb
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Enola Gay
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dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima
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