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27 Cards in this Set
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Years for WWll - US and the World
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world: 1939-1945
U.s. 1941-1945 |
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Why did America enter the war?
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to stop hitler from possobly attacking United States
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What happened in europe before we entered the war?
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Hitler attacked Poland
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Benito Mussolini
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formed facist party in Italy and seized power
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Joseph stalin
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Seized power by emiliminating adversaries, established brutal dictatorship
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Winston Churchill
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British primeminister, he sought no territorial gains, freedom of seas, and to end war, signed atlantic charter
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Franklin Roosevelt
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President during world war 2, led america through the war
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Victory Gardens
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People growing adn canning their own foods and goods to preserve and save money
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rationing
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to save supplies for people over seas
ration books |
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War Bonds
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Helped to pay for the war, federal government sold these
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Fascism
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Dictatorship
total control |
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Lend-Lease Act
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rent, sell, and lend wartime equipment to britain
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Office of war information
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controlled radio broadcast, made posters and newsreels, to promote unrest in Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Japanese Americans in Internment Camps
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They were moved there for suspicion of japan and having alliances
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Omar Bradley
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led first american army to land in France
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Vernon Baker
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Medal of Honor hero in combat in europe
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Dwight Eisenhower
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commanded invasion of normandy, d-day
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American civilians and their patriotism
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Victory gardens, war bonds, women working,office of war information
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Harry Truman
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Used Atomic bomb against japan in august 1945 in hiroshima and nagasaki
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Merchant Marines
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people who supplied was supplies for U.S.
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Battle of Midway
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1943 u.s. navy commanded by chester nimitz defeated japanese fleet
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Battle of the Bulge
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Germanys counter attack germany collapsed,allies crossed into germany
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General George S. Patton
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most successful u.s commanders
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General George Marshall
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retook the pacific through strategy of "island hopping"
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Flying tigers
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ameicans that were paid to teach chinese to fly
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General Douglas MacArthur
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Cheif of staff "organizer of victory" supplied army with men
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Code Talkers
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Americans usuing codes on messgaes so japanese wouldnt understand - using navajo language
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