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38 Cards in this Set
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War Production Board
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World War II agency that was in charge of converting factories to war production
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Office of War Mobilization
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Federal agency that coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort during WW2
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Selective Training and Service Act
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This act provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history
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Douglas Mac Arthur
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He had more than 30,000 U.S. and 110,000 Filipino troops Defending the Philippines
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Bataan Death March
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Brutal forced march of U.S. and Filipino prisoners during WW2 up the Bataan Peninsula; more than 10,000 died
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Chester Nimitz
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The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, didn't consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea
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WW2 battle in which the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia
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Battle of Midway
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WW2 battle in which the allied forces crippled Japan's navy
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Erwin Rommel
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He had advanced as far as El Alamein, Egypt, by July 1942; called him desert fox
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Bernard Montgomery
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He turned this shortage to their advantage.
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Office of War Information
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U.S. agency that controlled the flow of war news at home during World War 2
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Rosie the Riveter
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The symbol of patriot female defense workers
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A. Philip Randolph
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African American labor leader who 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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Group created in 1941 to prevent discrimination in war industries and government jobs
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Carlos E. Castaneda
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professor at unversity of Texas; served as assistant to the chair of theFEPC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas
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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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Series of attacks by U.S. sailors against mexican Americans in Los angeles
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internment
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forced relocation adn 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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he commanded the invasion force of U.S. and British soldiers
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George S. Patton
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He 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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WW2 naval campaign fought between German U-boats and allied naval and air forces
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sonar
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Equipment that uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.
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George C. Marchall
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The U.S. army chief of staff and key allied strategist _____ led the planning
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D-day
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June 6; WW2 Allied invasion of France
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Omar Bradley
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He led to 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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Battle of the Bulge
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WWII battle in which the Allies defeated final German offensives.
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island hopping
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US WWII strategy of conquering only the Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan
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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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kamikaze
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suicide planes
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Battle of Okinawa
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the bloodiest of the Pacific war
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HarryS. Truman
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faced a grace decision
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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
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Albert Einstein
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moved from Germany to the US
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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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Battle of the Bulge
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WWII battle in which the Allies defeated final German offensives.
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