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War Production Board
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created by FDR to direct conversion of existing factories to wartime production and supervised the building of the new plants
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Office of War Mobilization
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coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort; coordinated the production of consumer goods
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Selective Training and Service Act
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provided for the first peacetime draft in US history; required all men ages 21 to 35 to register
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Douglas MacArthur
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commanded Filipino troops; eventually given command of all US troops in the Pacific; ordered troops to evacuate the city and retreat to the Bataan Peninsula
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese troops forced the survivors in Bataan to march to a prison camp; treated brutally
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Chester Nimitz
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comander of the US pacific fleet; agressive commander
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Battle of Coral Sea
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allied victory;tactical and strategic victory, US win, Only airplanes
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Battle of Midway
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naval battle in the pacific; seeking to crush the US pacific fleet; between the navies of hte US and Japan; US victory
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Erwin Rommel
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"Desert Fox", very skillful military leader
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Bernard Montgomery
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british leader who helped turn the corner at the battle of el alamein
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Office of War Information
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controlled the flow of war news at home
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Rosie the Riveter
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the symbol of patriotic female defense workers
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A Philip Randolph
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African American leader who protested against discrimination of black workers
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Fair Emplyment Practices Committee
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enforced an order that forbade racial discrimination in defense plants and government offices
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Carlos Castenada
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served as an assistant to the chair of the FEPC
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braceros
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railroad workers who came from the north to work in the Southwest during the war
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zoot-suit riots
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US Sailors entered a city attacking the zoot-suit people
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internment
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forced relocation and imprisonment
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Norman Mineta
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nisei from who was imprisoned; Japanese American
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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commanded the invasion force of the British and US soldiers
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George Patton
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guided US forces in the invasion of Italy
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Allies won; battle in the sea in the Atlantic
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sonar
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equitpment that uses waves to detect things underwater
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George C. Marshall
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Allied strategist who led the planning of the US invading German-occupied France
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D-Day
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Operation Overload; June 6, 1944
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Holocaust
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Nazis Germany's system of killing European Jews
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genocide
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deliberate annihilation of an entire group of people
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Battle of the Bulge
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Germans pushed westward to create a bulge in the Allied lines, but the Allies pushed the Germans back
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Yalta Conference
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FDR, Churchill, and Stalin pledged to declare war on Japan; Germany would be divided and occupied after the war for peace
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island hopping
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troops would attack and seize only certain strategic Japanese-held islands rather than trying to recaptured them all
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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we were there because of the Spanish American war; in the Phillipines
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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6 weeks long; US tried to take Mt. Suribachi
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Battle of Okinawa
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bloodiest of the Pacific War; many caves; many Japanese died; kamikazis used
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Harry Truman
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became president once FDR died
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Manhattan Project
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effort group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb
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Enola Gay
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dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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