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War Production Board
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to invrease military production.
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office of war mobilization (OWM)
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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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Douglas MacArthur
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general
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Bataan Death March
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U.S filipino march most were shot or beaten to death
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Chester Nimitz
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did not consider the attack on pearl harbor a compleat disaster
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Battle of Coral Sea
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was an important allied victory.
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Battle of Midway
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took place in june 1942
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Erwin Rommel
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known and desert fox
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Bernard Montogmery
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he pused Rommels troops to the west out of eqypt.
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Office of War Information
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controlled the flow of war news at home -government run office
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