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30 Cards in this Set
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War Production Board
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Increased 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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The United To active duty
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Douglas MacAuthur
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Man in control of the 30,000 Americans and 110,000 Filipinos defending the Philippines
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Bataan Death March
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April 1942, Japanese soldiers forced people to march
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Chester Nimitz
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Commander of the U.S. Naval fleet
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Battle that stopped the Japanese advancement on Australia
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Battle of Midway
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Early June 1942, a crucial Allie victory
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Erwin Rommel
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Desert Fox, advanced as far as El Alamein, Egypt
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Bernard Montgomery
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The British General
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Office of War Information
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Controlled the flow of war news back home
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Rosie the Riveter
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A symbolic patriotic female defense worker
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A. Philip Randolph
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African American Leader
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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Made sure everyone who was qualified were considered, regardless of race
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Carlos E. Castañeda
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Assistant to the chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions
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Nationalize
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Assert government control over
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Josephus Daniels
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Compromised between the Mexican government and oil companies
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Caudillos
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People who took power in many Latin American countries
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Benito Mussolini
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Founded the fascist party
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Fascists
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Military-dominated government should control everything
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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of the soviets
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Totalitarian state
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Government has complete rule
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Nazi party
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Nationalist-socialist party
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Brownshirt
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Nazi storm troopers
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Anti-semitism
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Hatred of Jews
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Francisco Franco
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Man who felt threatened by the reforms united under the leaderships
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Popular front
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International allegiance of organizations united against fascism
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