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10 Cards in this Set
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War production board
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Created to increase military production
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Office 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 U.S history
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Douglass McArthur
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Given control of all U.S Army units in the Pacific
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Bataan Death March
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10,000 prisoners died marching to camps in Japanese held lands
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Chester Nimitz
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He did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Allies stopped the Japanese advance in Australia
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Battle of Midway
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Japanese forces attacked in an effort to crush the American fleet only to lose 4 carriers a number of smaller ships and skilled pilots
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Erwin Rommel
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Known as the desert fox he was the best nazi general in North Africa using his tanks and tactics to his advantage
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Bernard Montgomery
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Led allied troops to victory in North Africa
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