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16 Cards in this Set
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War production board
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increase military production
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Office of War Mobilization
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coordinated all government agencies involved in war effort.
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Selective Training and Service Act
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act provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S, history
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Douglas MacArthur
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general of the filipinos
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Bataan Death March
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10,000 died on what
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chester nimitz
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did not consider the attack on pearl harbor
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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an important allied victory
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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 the germans
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Bernard Montgomery
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turned this 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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African American labor leader
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Fair Employment Practices Committe
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invested companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified applicants
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Carlos Castaneda
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served as assistant to the chair
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Braceros
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came north to work in the southwest during world war I
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