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32 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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Created on May 27, 1943, coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort.
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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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In command of 110,000 Filipino troops, also he was General.
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Bataan Death March?
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Brutal forced mach of U.S. and Filipino prisoners during World War II 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, as well as a Admiral in the military, did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster.
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Battle of the Coral Sea?
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World War II battle in which the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.
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Battle of Midway?
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The second major naval battle in the Pacific, took place early in June 1942.
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Erwin Rommel?
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A commander of German Afrika Korps sent by Adolf Hitler.
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Bernard Montgomery?
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A General that leaded the British.
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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 II.
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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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Before the United States entered the War, during 1941, African American labor leader, 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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Created by Roosevelt. This committee 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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A University of Texas history professor, 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 who came to the United States during World War II as a result of a U.S.-Mexican agreement.
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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 and imprisonment of people.
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Norman Mineta?
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A 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 U.S. and British soldiers.
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George S. Patton?
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A General who 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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World War II naval campaign fought between German U-boats and Allied naval and air forces.
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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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U.S. Army chief of staff and key Allied strategist led the planning Operation Overlord.
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D-Day?
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June 6; World War II Allied invasion of France.
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Omar Bradley?
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A General that led the U.S. troops that landed at Normandy.
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Holocaust?
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Nazi Germany's 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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Romanian-born writer was one of such survivors to be found starving in a death camp.
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Battle of the Bulge?
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World War II battle in which the allies defeated the final German offensive.
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Yalta Conference?
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Meeting of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to plan for the postwar world.
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Island-hopping?
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U.S. World War II strategy of conquering only the Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan.
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