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14 Cards in this Set
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Albert Einstein
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He informed President Roosevelt that the German's had successfully spilt an atom and were working on an atomic bomb
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A. Philip Randolph
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He threated to have a 100 thousand man march on Washington if defense contract companies didn't stop discriminating.
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George Marshall
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He encouraged branches of the military to open up un-combat jobs to woman.
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Henry Kaiser
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He developed the process of pre-fabrication in the production of liberty ships.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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He was a general in the army during WWII. HE was considered the supreme commander of allied forces in Europe.
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Enrico Fermi
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He successfully spilt an atom in Solider Field, in Chicago.
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Erwin Rommel
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He was a General in WWII. he was considered the best General during the war. His nickname was the "Desert Fox"!
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Robert Oppenheimer
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He was in charge of the development of the atomic bomb.
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Rationing System
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To control inflation and guarantee that everyone would get their fair share the goverment used ratioing.
The rationed: gas, food, coffee, etc. |
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Stalingrad
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The soviets went on the offensive after their victory.
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Japan
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The country that Churchill & Roosevelt decided to defeat first.
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Normandy, France
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America's largest amphibious invasion took place.
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Sonar
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The new invention that helped defeat submarines in the Alantic.
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Manhattan Project
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Was the development of the atomic bomb was a top secert endeavor.
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