Chapter 27

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War Production Board

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In 1942 President Roosevelt created this 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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Served in the Philippines and was later wounded twice in World War I

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Bataan Death March

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More than 10,000 died

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Chester Nimitz

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Didn't consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster. "It was God's mercy that our fleet was in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941."

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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. Seeking to crush the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Japan launched a two-pronged attack.

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Bernard Montgomery

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Led the British

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Office of War Information

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Controlled the flow of the 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 assistant to the chair of the FEBC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americas in Texas

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Braceros

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Came north to work in the Southwest during World War II

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Zoot-suit riots

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In June 1943, 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 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 force of 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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Begin to turn in the Allies' favor

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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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U.S. Army chief of staff and key Allied strategist

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D-Day

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Allies landed farther south in Normandy on June 6, 1944

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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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Survivor of the holocaust.

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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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In February 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met at this to plan for the postwar peace

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Island Shopping

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This meant that 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 last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific

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Battle of Iwo Jima

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Last six weeks. Several thousand marines and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed

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Kamikaze

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Suicide planes. Japanese word meaning "divine wind"

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Battle of Okinawa

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Perhaps the bloodiest of the Pacific war. About 49,000 U.S. troops were killed or wounded in the battle. More than 100,000 Japanese died in the fighting

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Harry S Truman

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The new president that faced a grave decision. He had to decide whether the U.S. should use its fearsome new weapon the atomic bomb.

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Manhattan Project

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The effort of a group of scientist who had been working to create an atomic bomb since 1942

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Albert Einstein

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In 1933, a physicist, he moved from Germany to the United Sates. August 1939 he wrote to President Roosevelt and warned that "a single bomb of this type cared by a boat and exploded in a port might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory"

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Enola Gay

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The U.S. B-29 bomber commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima at 8:15am on August 6