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40 Cards in this Set
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War production board
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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 Service Act
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Provided for the first peacetime draft in the U.S. history.
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Douglas macArthur
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Overall commander
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese soldiers forced more than 70,000 survivors to march through the jungle on their way to prison camps.
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Chester Nimitz
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Did not consider the attack on pear harbor a complete disaster.
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Battle of the Coral sea
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Was an important allied victory
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Battle of Midway
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Took place early in June 1942
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Bernard Montgomery
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Turned this shortage to their advantage
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Office of War Information
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Controlled the flow of 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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Protest discrimination against black workers in Washington
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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.Castañeda
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Worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans 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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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
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Norman mineta
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Imprisoned Japanese American
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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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Guided the U.S. forces
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Turned in the Allies' favor
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Sonar
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Used sound waves to detect underwater objects
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George C. Marshall
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Key Allied strategist
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D-Day
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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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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
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Battle of the Bulge
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Some 200,000 German attacked an initial U.S. force of about 80,000 troops.
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Yalta conference
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Stalin declared war on Japan
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Island hopping
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Troops would only attack and seize certain strategy Japanese- held islands
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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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Lasted six weeks
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Kamikaze
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Suicide planes
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Battle of Okinawa
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Bloodiest of pacific war
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Harry s Truman
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New president
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Manhattan project
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Scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb since 1942
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Albert Einstein
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Moved from Germany to the United States
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Enola gay
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Dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima
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Kamikaze
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Suicide planes
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