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12 Cards in this Set
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Social and Economic Effect: Women
Richard Polenberg |
The war thwarted any potential for a significant alteration in gender roles
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Social and Economic Effect: Women
Leila J. Rupp |
the temporary lowering of barriers made no permanent impact on women’s
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Social and Economic Effect: Racism and Minority
Dale Johnson |
[After the war] Blacks and Browns were relegated to employment in the most technologically backward of labor-intensive sectors and to unemployment
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Social and Economic Effect: Racism and Minority
Erasmo Gamboa |
the men endured much racial discrimination from employers and local communities alike.
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Technological Development: Armored Warfare
J.F.C Fuller |
not to kill but to move; not to move to kill, but to move to terrify, to bewilder, to perplex, to cause consternation, doubt and confusion in the rear of the enemy. … Its aim was to paralyse
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Causes for Axis Defeat: Allied Air Power
Joachim von Ribbentrop |
Second, bombing placed a ceiling on the ability of the German- dominated European economy to produce armaments in quantities that matched the vast resource base of the occupied economies. This was achieved through direct destruction, the interruption of raw material, transport and energy supplies on a large scale, and the forced dispersal of German industry away from the most threatened centres.
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Causes for Axis Defeat: American Industrial Power
Richard Overy |
USA was able to make up for the lag in building up effectively trained armed forces by exerting a massive material superiority.
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Causes for Axis Defeat: Soviet Transformation
Richard Overy |
The air and tank armies were reorganised to mimic the German Panzer divisions and air fleets; communication and intelligence were vastly improved (helped by a huge supply of American and British telephone equipment and cable); training for officers and men was designed to encourage greater initiative; and the technology available was hastily modernised to match German.
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Causes for Axis Defeat: V-rocket development
Richard Overy |
Third, bombing forced Hitler and the German leadership to think of radical ways to combat the threat it posed. Huge resources were diverted to the production of vengeance, or 'V', weapons, which had a very limited impact on Britain when rockets and flying bombs began to fall in the late summer of 1944
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Causes for Axis Defeat: German Miscalculation
Richard Overy |
no misjudgements were more costly in the end than the German belief that the Red Army was a primitive force, incapable of prolonged resistance, or Hitler's insistence that the USA would take years to rearm and could never field an effective army, or the failure to recognise that bombing was a threat worth taking seriously before it was too late.
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Technological Development: Enigma Code
Winston Churchill |
It was thanks to the Ultra (Enigma codebreaker) that we win the war
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Technological Development: Long-range aircraft
Joachim von Ribbentrop |
The long-range fighter, introduced from late 1943, made bombing more secure, and provided the instrument to destroy the German fighter force over the Reich.
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