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War Production Board
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Roosevelt created it to increase military production and to create jobs
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Office of War Mobilization
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it coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort
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Selective Training and Service Act
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This act provided for the first peace time draft in U.S. history
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Douglas MacArthur
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An overall general
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Bataan Death March
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It was a march where 70,000 survivors from battles were forced to march to a prison camp when more than 10,000 died
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Chester Nimitz
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an admiral who did not consider the attack on pearl harbor a complete disaster
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The Battle of the Coral Sea
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it was an important allied victory
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Erwin Rommel
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a commander who was in charge of the german afrika korps
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Bernard Montgomery
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A British General who turned the german shortages to his advantage
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Battle of Midway
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It was a naval battle that took place in early june 42' seeking to crush the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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Office of War Information
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it controlled the flow of war news at home
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Rosie the Riveter
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The symbol of patriotic defense workers
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A. Philip Randolph
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An african American labor leader who planned a march on Washington D.C.
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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Created by Roosevelt that investigated companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified application regardless of race were considered for job openings
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Carlos E. Castañeda
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UT history professor who served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC
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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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when u.s. sailors attacked mexican american youths wearing zoot-suits
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internment
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forced relocation and imprisonment
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Norman Mineta
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a young man who was imprisoned who was taken away for questioning by the FBI who did nothing
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A general who commanded the invasion force of U.S. and British soldiers
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George S. Patton
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A general who had emerged as a leader during the North African campaign
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Battle of the Atlantic
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It was during fighting in the mediterranean when the allies waged campaigns on other fronts
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sonar
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equipment that used sound waves to detect underwater objects
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George C. marshall
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a key allied strategist who led the planning for operation overlord
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D-Day
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the day when the allies landed on Normandy
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Omar Bradley
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he was a general
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Holocaust
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When Nazi Germany started a systematic slaughter of European Jews
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genocide
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the deliberate annihilation of an entire people
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Battle of the Bulge
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when some 200,000 Germans attacked an initial u.s. force of about 80,000 troops
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Yalta Conference
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When Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill planed for the postwar peace.
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Island Hopping
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a strategy when the troops would attack and seize only certain strategic Japanese held islands rather than trying to recapture all of them.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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the last largest and most decisive naval engagement in the pacific
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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it lasted six weeks where several thousand marines and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers where killed
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kamikaze
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suicide planes
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battle of okinawa
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it was possibly the bloodiest of the pacific war
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Harry S. Truman
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he was the new president during the war
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Manhattan project
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the effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb since 42'
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Albert Einstein
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the wizard of Menlo park who was a great physicist and inventor
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Enola Gay
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the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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