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17 Cards in this Set
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Years for WWII for the world and for the U.S.
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World: 1939-1945
U.S.: 1941-1945 |
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America enters the war.....
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December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor
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What happened ion Europe before we entered the war?
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Hitler took over.......
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian dictator, developed a new type of political party
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Joseph Stalin
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Established a Totalitarian dictatorship
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Winston Churchill
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British prime minister, signed the Atlantic Charter Allies to U.S.
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Franklin Roosevelt
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president
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Victory Gardens
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Gardens for the troops
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Rationing
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Regulated the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain.
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War Bonds
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are used as money
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Fascism
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a political party
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Lend-Lease Act
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Created to sell , lease, or lend war materials to "any country where defense to the president is deens vital to the defense of the U.S."
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Office of War Information
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(OWI) created for proallied, antiaxis propaganda
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Japanese American Internment Camps
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they were put there because we were scared some were spies
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Omar Bradley
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Was the first American to land in France, selected by Eisenhower
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Vernon Baker
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one of the first African Americans to see combat in war
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Dwight Eisenhower
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led an invasion by landing at 5 beaches on the NorthWest coast of Normandy.
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