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20 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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Provides for the first peacetime act daft in U.S. history
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Douglas MacArthur
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Was a general
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese treated U.S. and Filipino soldiers brutally
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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 coral sea
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Was important allied victory
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Battle of midway
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Took place early in June 1942
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Erwin Rommel
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Known as desert fox
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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 information
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Rosie he Riveter
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The symbol of patriotic female defense workers
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A. Phillip Randolph
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Planned 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 all qualified applicants
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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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Came north to work in the southwest during WWII
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Zoot-suit riots
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Mexican American youths
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Internment
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Or forced relocation and imprisonment
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Norman Mintea
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A nisei from San Jose
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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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