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16 Cards in this Set
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Fascism |
authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization |
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Blitzkrieg |
an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
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Maginot Line |
line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany. |
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Atlantic Charter |
provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. |
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War Production Board |
an agency of the United States government that supervised war productionduring World War II |
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Selective Training and Service Act |
required that men who had reached their 21st birthday but had not yet reached their 36th birthday register with local draft boards |
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Stalingrad |
major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia |
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Bataan Death March |
75,000 Filipino and American troops onBataan were forced to make an arduous 65-milemarch to prison camps |
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Office of War Information |
agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad. |
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Rosie the Riveter |
cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies |
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internment |
state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons |
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island-hopping |
travel from one island to another |
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Manhattan Project |
research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. |
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Enola Gay |
selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line |
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D-Day |
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. |
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Battle of the Bulge |
the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, |
