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War production board
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World war 2 agency that was in charge of converting factories to war production.
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Office of war mobilization
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Federal agency that coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort during world war 2
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Selective training and service act
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Law providing for the first peacetime draft in US history.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Commander that was defending the Philippines.
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Bataan Death March
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Brutal forced march of US and Filipino prisoners during WW2 up the Bataan Peninsula; more than 10,000 died.
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Chester Nimitz
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the commander of he US pacific fleet.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Ww2 battle in which the allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.
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Battle of Midway
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Ww2 battle in which the allied forces crippled Japan's navy.
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Erwin Rommel
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Command of the German Afrika Korps.
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Bernard Montgomery
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General of the British army.
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Office of war information
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US agency that controller the flow of war news at home during World War Two.
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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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African American labor leader who planned a march on Washington DC, to protest discrimination against black workers.
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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Group created in 1941 to prevent discrimination in war industries and government jobs.
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Carlos E. Castañeda
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University of Texas history professor that 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.
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Zoot-suit riots
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Series o attacks by US sailors against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles.
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Internment
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Forced relocation and imprisonment.
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Norman Mineta
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An imprisoned Japanese American.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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General who commanded the invasion force or US and British soldiers.
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George S. Patton
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General who had emerged as a leader during the North Africa campaign and guided the US forces when invading Italy.
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Ww2 naval campaign fought between German u-boats an allies naval and air forces.
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Sonar
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Equipment that uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.
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George C. Marshall
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Leader of Operation Overlord.
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D-Day
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Germany's surrender.
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Omar Bradley
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General that led the us troops that landed in 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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Battle of the bulge
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Yalta conference
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Conference of FDR Churchill and Stalin where Stalin pledge to declare war on Japan three months after Germany's surrender.
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Island-hopping
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Us World War Two strategy of conquering only the pacific islands that were important to the Allie advance toward Japan
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Battle of Leyte gulf
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The last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement on the pacific.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Six week struggle for control of a key pacific island that resulted in an allied victory.
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Kamikaze
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Suicide planes
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Battle of Okinawa
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The bloodiest of the pacific war.
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Harry S. Truman
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The new president, who faced a grave decision: whether to bomb Japan or not.
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Manhattan project
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The effort of a group of scientists who ha been working to create an atomic bomb.
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Albert Einstein.
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Physicist who moved from Germany to the United States. Genius.
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Enola Gay
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Bomber plane that dropped an optimism bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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Elie Wiesel
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Romanian-born writer who was a survivor of the holocaust.
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