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11 Cards in this Set
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Henry Ford
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From Detroit. Built what one man called the "most enormous room in the history of man." producing one b-24 liberator bomber every hour.
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"Rosie the Riveter"
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Several million women took this job while men were away. They helped in plants that manufactured goods for the war.
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ration book
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Each family received this containing stamps for the purchase of tires,sugar,meat,and other scarce items.
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GI
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Means government issue. Became the affectionate nickname for the average American soldier
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panzer
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German tanks
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Operation Torch
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In November 1941, some 300,000 American troops landed in Morocco and Algeria as part of this.
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Nisei
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second-generation Japanese Americans
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Guam
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The defenders of this island could not hold out against the overwhelming force of the Japanese.
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"Bataan Death March"
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The Japanese shot or bayoneted those prisoners with disease, wounds, hunger or fatigue who fell out of the line of march
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Jacob Deshazer
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A man who volunteered for the Doolittle raid. He was a wiry young man with a broad smile and a quick temper. He was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese, who tortured and mistreated him until the war's end.
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Erwin Rommel
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Known as the desert fox, was caught in Egypt between the Americans to the west and the British to the east.
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