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Battle of the Bulge
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Germans counter-attacked their allies inspite of the event D-Day
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General George S. Patton
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Had command of the American Third Army. Important role with the use of tanks. Commander of the forces that invaded North Africa and Sicily.
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Merchant Marines
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Contributed war supplies through ships to help allies win the war.
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General Douglass MacArthur
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Began a campaign with Nimitz in the Solomon Islands to take on Guadalcanal.
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War Bonds
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Reduced the amount of currency in the economy. It helped pay for the war.
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Omar Bradley
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Lead the first American army to land in France. U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe. General of the U.S. Army.
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Office of War Information
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Produced radio programs, asked citizens to contribute to the war effort the best way possible.
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Vernon Baker
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Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for battlefield courage. One of the forst African Americans to see combat in the war.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Landed at five beaches on the northwest coast of France at Normandy.
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American civilians acted on their sense of patriotism by volunteering
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Rationing, donating scrap, growing victory gardens, etc.
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Harry Truman
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Dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
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Lend-Lease Act
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To sell, lease, or lend war materials to ''any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the U.S.''
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Fascism
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Form of radical authoritarian nationalism.-Benito Musselini
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Years for WWII
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1941-1945
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Year America entered the war
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1939-When Hitler invaded Poland
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Recall what was happening in Europe before we entered the war
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Great Depression and World War I
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Joseph Stalin
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Established a brutal totalitarian dictatorship
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Made the ''Quarantine'' speech, signed the Atlantic Charter,died before the war ended, and announced that his countries sought an end to war, freedom of the seas, and no territorial gains.
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Winston Churchill
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British Prime Minister that signed the Atlantic Charter, and announced that his countries sought an end to war, freedom of the seas, and no territorial gains.
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Benito Musselini
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Developed a new type of political party and seized power soon after the war.
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Victory Gardens
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vegetable gardens grown by Americans to make sure that an adequate amount of food was available for both troops and civilians.
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Japanese Americans in Internment camps
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Forced into internment camps away from home where they were beaten and forced to work.
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Rationing
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Regulated the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain.
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Flying Tigers
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Americans who went to China, got on the radio, and taught the Chinese how to fly their planes.
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Code Talkers (Navajo)
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The American military needed a code to communicate without the Japanese breaking the code.
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Battle of Midway
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Devised plan by Japanese fleet commander, that was made to lure the U.S. fleet into a battle near Midway, atiny island, where he thought he could win.
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