Chapter 27

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Office of war Mobilization

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Coordinated

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War production board

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Increase military production

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Selective training and service act

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Called the national guards to active duty

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Dougles macarthur

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Defended the philippines

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Bataan death march

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Japanese soldiers forced the more then 70,000 survivors to march through the jungles on their way to prison camp

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Chester nimitz

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The commander of the u.s. pacific fleet

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Battle of the coral sea

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Damaged one japanese carrier and destroyed another and several aircraft

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Battle of midway

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Was to crush japan ships that was in that area

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Erwin rommel

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Commander of german afrika korps

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Bernard montgomery

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General of the british

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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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Symbol of patriotic female defense workers

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A. Philp 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 the qualified

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Carlos e. castañeda

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Served as assistant to the chair of fepc

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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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Mexican american youths in what became know as

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Internment

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Forced relocation and imprisonment

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Norman minerta

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One of the imprisoned japanese americans

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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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Became learder during the north africa campaign

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George c. Marshall

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U.s. army chief of staff and key allied strategist

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D-day

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It is when merica started it attack on normandy

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Omar bradley

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Led the u.s. troops that landed on normandy

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Holocaust

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Germany systematic slaughter of european jew

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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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Survived the holocaust

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Battle of the bulge

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Some 200,000 germans attacked the u.s.

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Yalta conference

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Paining for post war peace

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Island-hopping

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Strategy of going from island to island while taking over the pacific

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Battle of the gulf

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Last largest and most decisive naval engagement in the pacific

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Battle of iwo jima

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U.s. victory being nearly certain japanese forces fought as fiercely as ever

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Kamikaze

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Suicide plans

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Battle of okinawa

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The booldiest battle of the pacific war

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Harry s truman

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The new president

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Manhattan project

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Were we made the atomic bomb

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Albert Einstein

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Physicist that made the bomb

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Enola gay

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Commanded by paul tibbets dropped an atomic bomb on the city of hiroshima