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31 Cards in this Set
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War Production Bond
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Was to increase 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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This act provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history
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Douglas MacArthur
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Filipino General
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Bataan Death March
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More than 10,000 people died on this march
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Chester Nimitz
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Did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster
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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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Second major naval battle in the Pacific
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Erwin Rommel
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Known as the Desert Fox
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Bernard Montgomery
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Turned a 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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The symbol of patriotic female defense workers
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A. Philip Randolph
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Planned on march on Washington D.C.
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Fair Employment Practice Committee
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Created on June 25, 1941
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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 Mexican Americans in Texas
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Braceros
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Came north to work in the Southwest during World War 2
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Zoot-suit riots
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U.S. sailors roamed the city attacking zoot-suit-clad Mexican American youths
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Internment
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Forced relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans living in 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
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Begun on 1943 with Allied ships, lives, and supplies.
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Sonar
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Uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.
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George C. Marshall
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Led the planning
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944, Nearly 5,000 troop transports, landing craft, and warships carried some 150,000 British and Canadian soldiers across the channel.
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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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Roman-born writer was on such survivor
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Battle of the Bulge
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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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Plan for the postwar peace.
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