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40 Cards in this Set
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What is War Production Board?
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(WPB) to increase military production.
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What is Office of War Mobilization?
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(OWM) coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort.
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What is Selective Training and Service Act?
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In the summer of 1940, the United States called the National Guard to active duty and passed the Selective Training and Service Act.
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Who is Douglas MacArthur?
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Defending the Philippines were more than 30,000 U.S. and 110,000 Filipino troops under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur.
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What is Bataan Death March?
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(1942) Brutal forced march of U.S. and Filipino prisoners during World War II up the Bataan Peninsula; more than 10,000 died.
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Who is Chester Nimitz?
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The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Chester Nimitz, did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster.
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What is Battle of the Coral Sea?
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was an important Allied victory.
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What is Battle of Midway?
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took place early in June 1942.
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Who is Erwin Rommel?
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Hitler sent in the German Afrika Korps under commander Erwin Rommel.
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Who is Bernard Montogomery?
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turned this shortage to their advantage.
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What is Office of War Information?
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The government-run Office of War Information controlled the flow of war news at home.
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Who is Rosie the Riveter?
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the symbol of patriotic female defense workers.
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Who is A. Philip Randolph?
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planned a march on Washington, D.C., to protest discrimination against black workers.
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What is Fair Employment Practices Committee?
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(FEPC) Group created in 1941 to prevent discrimination in war industries and government jobs.
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Who is Carlos E. Castaneda?
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served an assistant to the chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas.
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What is braceros?
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came north to work in the southwest during World War II.
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What is Zoot-Suit Riots?
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(1943) Series of attacks by U.S. sailors against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles.
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What is internment?
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forced relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans living on the Pacific Coast.
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Who is Norman Mineta?
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a nisei from San Jose, California.
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Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
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commanded the invasion force of U.S. and British soldiers.
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Who is George S. Patton?
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who had emerged as a leader during the North Africa campaign, guided the U.S. forces.
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What is Battle of the Atlantic?
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begin to turn in the Allie's favor.
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What is Sonar?
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An important factor was the refinement of sonar equipment, which uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.
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Who is George C. Marshall?
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U.S. Army chief of staff and key Allied strategist George C. Marshall led the planning.
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What is D-Day?
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Instead, the Allies landed farther south, in Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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Who is Omar Bradley?
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led the U.S. troops that landed at Normandy.
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What is Holocaust?
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Nazi Germany's systematic slaughter of European Jews.
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What is genocide?
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the deliberate annihilation of an entire people.
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Who is Elie Wiesel?
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was one such survivor.
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What is Battle of the Bulge?
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In the resulting Battle of the Bulge some 200,000 Germans attacked an initial U.S. force of about 80,000 troops.
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What is Yalta Conference?
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to plan for the postwar peace.
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What is Island-Hopping?
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As early as 1942 the U.S. high command had adopted a strategy of island-hopping.
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What is Battle of Leyte Gulf?
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the last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific.
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What is Battle of Iwo Jima?
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(1945) Six-week struggle for control of a key Pacific island that resulted in an Allied victory.
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What is kamikaze?
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Three-hundred fifty of these planes were kamikaze, or suicide planes.
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What is Battle of Okinawa?
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was perhaps the bloodiest of the Pacific war.
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Who is Harry S. Truman?
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the new president faced a grave decision.
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What is Manhattan Project?
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the effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb since 1942.
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Who is Albert Einstein?
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In 1933 physicist Albert Einstein moved from Germany to the United States.
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What is Enola Gay?
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commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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