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33 Cards in this Set
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War Production Board
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created January 1942 to increase military production
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Office of war mobilization
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coordinated all government agencies involved in the war efforts
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selective training and service act
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provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S history
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Douglas MacArthur
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distinguished general
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Bataan Death March
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prison camp where 10,000+ died
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chester Nimitz
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commander of the U.S pacific fleet;
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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bernard montgomery
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led the british;
turned his short age 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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african american labor leader planned a march on washington, D.C. before the U.S. entered the war
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Fair employment practices committee
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investigated companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified applicants, regardless of race, were considered for job openings.
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Carlos E. Castañeda
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professor at university of texas. 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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mexican farm and railroad workers
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internment
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forced relocation and imprisonment
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zoot-suit riots
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clad of mexican american youths
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Norman Mineta
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an imprisoned japanese american;
a nisei from san jose, california |
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Dwight d. eisenhower
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commanded the invasion force of the U.S. and british soldiers
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George S. Patton
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emerged as a leader during the north africa campaign
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Battle of the Atlantic
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between Allies and Germans;
turned towards the allies because of the use of sonar |
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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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u.s army cheif of staff and key allied strategist
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D-Day
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june 6, 1944 in Normandy
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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 annihiliation of an entire people
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Elie wiesel
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romanian born survivor of the death camps
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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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Feb 1945- Roosevelt, Churchill, stalin met to plan for postwar peace
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island hopping
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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 las largest and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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lasted 6 weeks
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