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39 Cards in this Set
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War production board
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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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Provided for the first peacetime draft In us history.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Lead thousands of Filipino troops
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Bataan death march
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More than 10,000 people died on this march
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Chester Nimitz
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Did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster
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Battle of the coral sea
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A important allied victory
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Battle of midway
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Japan launched an attack seeking to crush the us.
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Erwin Rommel
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Commanded the German Africa troops
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Bernard Montgomery
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Turned the 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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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 everyone was considered for job offerings
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Carlos e castañeda
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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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Us sailers roamed the city and attacked any zoot suit clans
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Interment
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Forced relocation and imprisonment.
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Norman mineta
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A nisei from San Jose California
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Eisenhower
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Commanded the invasion force of us and British soldiers
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George s Patton
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Emerged as a leader during the North African campaigns, leaded the us 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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Uses sound waves to detect underwater objects
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George c Marshall
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Led the planning of operation overlord
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D day
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German forces were attacked by allied forces and crushed
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Omar Bradley
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Ld the us troops the landed at Normandy on d day
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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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Germans attacked by us troops
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Yalta conference
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Planned for the postwar peace with Joseph Stalin.
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Island hopping
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Troops would attack and seize only certain strategic 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, many casualties.
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Kamikaze
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Suicide planes
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Battle of Okinawa
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The bloodiest war of the pacific war
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Harry s Truman
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Faced a grave decision
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Manhattan project
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The effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb.
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Albert Einstein
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Physicist moved from Germany to the us
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Enola gay
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Dropped an topic bomb on the city of Hiroshima
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