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why was japan on brink of war?
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ams refusal to accept japan's expansionist policies
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what was the victory plan?
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Us not fight till 1943, not ready
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When did japan attacfj phil?
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right after pearl harbor
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who won at bataan pennisula?
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Jap.. Gen Macacrtheur went to aust
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What happened in the doolittle raids?
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psycological affect on yam,amoto
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Why did yama want to use them as hostages?
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decisive battle for midway for favorable peace aggreeement
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What happened at the battle of midway
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ams found out Jap message, got tready, made japs defensive
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Why did churchill not want for brit and am to attack from france?
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no large scale invasion of europe, wanted northatleantic shipping routes, wanted control of brit imperial possesions
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where did they win in africa?
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algeria and morrocoq
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who fought stalingrad?
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russia, russia won
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when did manufacturing go up?
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after pearl harbor
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what did the war production board do?
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allocated resources, coordinated production between independent factories
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what did 11y7 mmilion bring?
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117 million 4 new techno. of warfare radars, proximity fuse
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phillip a randolf is pissed with af ams not getting job, wants to start a march on wdc so..
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roosevelt--> exec order 8802 prohibits war discrimination
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FEPC regulates
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the exec order 8802
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who was rosie the riviter?
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to recruit women in jobs when there were labor shortages
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what happened in kaiser shipyard?
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high pay, childcare, subsidized housing
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what was the forerunner to health maintanced org?
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kaiser permenante med care program
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what did the nwlb do?
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settles disputes, temp compromise for labor unuins who demand close chops v open shops
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union membership went..
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uP!
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When wages were down, coal miners striked and what happened
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halted railraods and shut down steel mills
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what was the smith connaly act? (war labor disputes)
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prez can seize strike bound plants that might terror natinl security
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us prodduced how much of the WAR's weapons
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40 percent
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War production board/// what did they do with clothing
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redesigned suits to save wool, swimsuits shurunk 10 percent
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what was the OPA responsible for?
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nationwide rationing system
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What did the OWI do?
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domestic propaganda
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why were wages up?
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OPA kept inflation down so wages went up because proces of everything was same
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who payed more taxes? ams or corps?
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americans
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who came from south ?
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hillbilies and white trash from south appalachia
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why did marriage rate and baby rate increase?
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goodbye babies made to continue if fatehr dies
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what were victory babies?
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women to fulfill men
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war did what about roles in Great Depression?
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reinforced gender roles abecause men were fighitng and women were out to war
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what was strategy of truth
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citizens need to know everything about war's progess but was still cencorse
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alien registration/ smith act-
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you CANNOT join any organization that wants to overthrwo the US
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gov prohibited italians working on coastlineSFHS
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DFHS
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double v stood or
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victory at home and victory at war
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the dobule v ppl wanted to show
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parallel between nazi germany and jim crow laws
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what was CORE?
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nonviolent direct action from gandhi, for aftrican americans
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why didnt the US want to fix black segregation>
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could cause race riots
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black sailors didn't return to work because
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accidental occured and many were killed
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why did ppl blame US for partly the holocaust?
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US turned away refugees on St. Louis and didn't relax immigration quotas
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What is the War refugee board?
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Jews to be saveed by refugee camps in europe
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the selective service allowed for what?
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deferrments for criminals, they could either chose between military or jail
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why was there tension in the military?
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they threw together random people who didnt understand eacother
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who had the lowest ratio of combatants?
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Us. 1 to 8
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What were some medical advancements?
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penicillin, blood plasma to prevent shioc
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why did no americans know about combat was like
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cause americans were censored of it
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how would the axis powers win/
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if they had a short wat
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where did fdr seek reconciliation?
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tehran, iran
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what was operation overload?
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cross channel invasion of france
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operation overlord took them to normandy france and they were led by eisenhower
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sdgsdf
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what softened germant's defenses in oo?
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airborne dummies
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when did the allies go into germany?
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septemebr
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where did the germans counter attacK?
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belgium to stop allied suplloes coming through belgium port
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wwhat kind of bombing was "strategic bombing?"
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all over the place, it killed germany's economy
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what was the UNO?
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uNITED states organization.. fdr lobbied for this, give more influence
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what was the yalta conference
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planned peace
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what did SU want from the yalta conference?
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expand sphere of influence
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what were the US goals from teh yalta coneference?
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self determination for free ppl, gradual decolonization, four policemen to manage world affairs, limit soviet influence
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what did the allies decide about germany?
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that eastern germ would be transferred to poland, others would be divided into 4 zones
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the soviets occupied eastern germany, they didn't get that much of it because the allies broke it up
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sdfg
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what was the highpoint of the grand alliance?
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Yalta Conference
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IN the yalta conference, what does the US decided to do about soviet
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support claims on territories lost in teh russo japanese war if stalin allies with jiang jieshi instead of the communist one
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what starts to break up the alliance?
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atomic bomb is good to go!
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what is decided at teh potsdam conefernce/
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that the us doesn't need stlain's elp to defeat japan
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to fight japan, they try..
island hopping |
fight weaker islands to regain lands
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under who do they regain the phili?
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doug;as macarthut
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battle at iwojima
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fought for 20 days on mt suribachi
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at okinanwa
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ams fought jap kamikaze against am ships
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