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30 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Permitted to make loans to companies to help them cover the cost of converting to war production
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Loans
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Selective Service and Training Act
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A plan for the first peacetime draft in American history
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Peacetime draft
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"Double V" Campaign
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get people to join the war so america could have a double victory
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double victory
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Benjamin O. Davis
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African american appointed to the highest ranking in the U.S army
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black
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Doolittle Raid
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Lifted american moral; bombed japan
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japan
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Corregidor
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small force was held on this island in Manila bay
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island
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Battle of Coral Sea
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first big naval battle
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naval
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Battle of Midway
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most important battle; turning point
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General Erwin Rommel
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"desert fox"
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nickname
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Battle of El Alamein
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most important battle of north africa
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africa
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Lette Gulf
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greatest naval battle of all time
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naval
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Code name for the invasion of mainland japan
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operation downfall
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Code name for the invation of france
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overload
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Iwo Jima
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bloodiest battle of the war
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Philip Randolph
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head of the biggest african american union
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Rations
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Red points-meat, fish
Blue points-veggies, fruits Green points-gasoline |
red blue green
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when was paris liberated
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august 25
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25
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karl doenitz
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hitlers successor
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hitler
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Enola Gary
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Name of the b-29 bomber plane
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plane
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Little Boy
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code name of atomic bomb
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bomb
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Hiroshima
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city in japan where the bomb was dropped
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city
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fat man
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code name for the other atomic bomb
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bomb
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Nagasaki
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another city where the bomb was dropped
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city
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when did the japanese surrender
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august 15, 1945
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countries in the UN
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US,Soviet Union, GB, France, China
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Hiroshima
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city in japan where the bomb was dropped
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city
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fat man
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code name for the other atomic bomb
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bomb
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Nagasaki
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another city where the bomb was dropped
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city
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when did the japanese surrender
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august 15, 1945
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countries in the UN
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US,Soviet Union, GB, France, China
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