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38 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 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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general he was the son of Arthur MacArthur
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Bataan Death March
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the Japanese treated U.S and Filipino soldiers brutally
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Battle of the coral sea
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was an important Allied victory
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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 Midway
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took place early in June 1942
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Erwin Rommel
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German Afrika korps under his command
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Bernard Montgomery
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British led by him he turned this 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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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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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. Castaneda
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served as an assistant to chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions
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braceros
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came north to work the Southwest during WWII
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internment
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forced relocation imprisonment of Japanese Americans living on the pacific coast
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Norman Mineta
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a nisei from San Jose
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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commanded the invasion forcde of the US and British soldiers
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George S. Patton
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who had emerged as a leader during North Africa campaign
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Battle of the Atlantic
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began to turn the Allies favor
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sonar
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equipment which uses sound waves to detect underwater objects
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George C. Marshall
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France U.S Army chief
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D-Day
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carried soldiers across the channel June 6 1944
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Omar Bradley
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led the U.S troops
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Holocaust
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Nazi Germany's system of slaughter
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genocide
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deliberate annihilation of entire people
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Battle of the Bulge
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Germans attacked U.S force
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Yalta Conference
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to plan postwar peace
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Elie Wiesel
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a survivor
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island- hopping
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attack and seize only certain strategic Japanese-held islands, rather then trying to capture all of them
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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the last, longest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific
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Kamikaze
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or suicide planes
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Battle of Okinawa
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bloodiest battle of Pacific War
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Harry S. Truman
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faced a grave decision of dropping an atomic bomb on Japan
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Manhattan Project
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the effort of a group of scientists who had been creating an atomic bomb
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Albert Einstein
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physicist
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Enola Gay
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dropped atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima
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