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40 Cards in this Set
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War production board
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increased 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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provided for the first peacetime draft in US History
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Douglas MacArthur
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was a general in war he defended the Philippines
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese marched 70,000 survivors through the jungle to a prison camp 10,000 died
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Chester Nimitz
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commander of the US Pacific fleet
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Battle of Coral Sea
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Important allied victory stopped Japanese advance on Australia
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Battle of Midway
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2nd major battle in the Pacific on June 1942
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Erwin Rommel
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commander of the German Afrika Korps he was known as the desert fox
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Bernard Montgomery
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British general fought in Africa
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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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Philip Randolph
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planned a march on Washington, D.C., to protest discrimination against black workers.
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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(FEPC) Group created in 1941 to prevent discrimination in war industries and government jobs.
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Carlos E. Castaneda
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served an 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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came north to work in the southwest during World War II.
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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 Japanese Americans living on the Pacific Coast.
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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 U.S. and British soldiers.
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George S. Patton
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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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begin to turn in the Allie's favor.
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Sonar
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An important factor was the refinement of sonar equipment, which uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.
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George C. Marshal
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U.S. Army chief of staff and key Allied strategist George C. Marshall led the planning.
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D-Day
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Instead, the Allies landed farther south, in Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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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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the deliberate annihilation of an entire people.
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Elie Wiesel
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was one such survivor
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Battle of the Bulge
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In the resulting Battle of the Bulge 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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to plan for the postwar peace.
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Island-Hopping
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As early as 1942 the U.S. high command had adopted a strategy of island-hopping.
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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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945) Six-week struggle for control of a key Pacific island that resulted in an Allied victory.
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kamikaze
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Three-hundred fifty of these planes were kamikaze, or suicide planes.
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Battle of Okinawa
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was perhaps the bloodiest of the Pacific war.
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Harry S. Truman
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the new president faced a grave decision dropped a bombs
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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 1942.
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Albert Einstein
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In 1933 physicist Albert Einstein moved from Germany to the United States.
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Enola Gay
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commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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