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25 Cards in this Set
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-Supreme court decision which upheld the constitutionality of the Japanese internment camps
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Korematsu vs. US
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-Leader of shipbuilding during WWII
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Henry J. Kaiser
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-took control of industry during WWII
-halted production of non-essential products |
-War Productions Board
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-Regulated prices during WWII to avoid extreme inflation
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Office of Price Administration
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-set ceilings on wages during WWII to keep prices low
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War Labor Board
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-Gave the federal government the right to sieze and run industries crippled by strikes during WWII
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Smith-Connally Ant-Strike Act
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-system during WWII by which Mexicans were imported to help with harvests
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Bracero program
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-black leader who led a march on Washington demanding more blacks in defense jobs
-FDR responded by bannind discrimination in defense industries |
A. Philip Randolph
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-served as a watchdog against discrimination during WWII
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Fair Employment Practices Commission
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-the goal of African Americans to acheie victory in WWII and victory at home against racism
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Double V
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-invention during WWII which lessened the need for African Americans to pick cotton
-aided the flight of blacks to the north |
mechanical cotton picker
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-US general who abandoned his troops in the Phillippines
-eventually returned and recaptured them |
General Douglas MacArthur
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-march of American war prisoners from eastern Philippines to western Philippines
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Bataan Death March
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-Largest naval battle in history
-Japanese vs. US in the Pacific Ocean |
Battle of Coral Sea
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-Turning point of the US pacific campaign
-Japanese stopped expansion |
Battle of Midway
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-road built from Alaska to US to help protect Alaska
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Alcan Highway
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-policy of seizing unimportant islands in the Pacific and building airbases on them to shoot missiles at the mainland from a close distance
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Island hopping
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-German code that US finally broke, allowing us to detect U-boats
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Enigma code
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-Battle between Germany and Britain in which German stopped its offensive, and was from there on out pushed back
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Battle of El Alamein
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-Turning point of the German-Russian fighting during WWII
-Russia began pushing back at Germany and regained eastern Europe |
Stalingrad
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-2nd WWII meeting1
-Meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill during WWII to discuss to future plans of the war -agreed they required unconditional surrender of germany |
Casablanca Conference
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-3rd WWII meeting
-Meeting between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill -Agreeded to open a second front against Germany -Soviets agreed to enter war against Japan once Germany fell -Inconclusive discussion about what to do with Germany afterwards |
Tehran Conference
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-Germany's last offensive push
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Battle of the Bulge
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-5th WWII meeting
-Conference in which Truman, Stalin, and British officials -unconditional surrender of Japan -Set up council to administer Germany -Stalin announced that there would be no elections in Eastern Europe |
Potsdam Conference
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-4th WWII meeting
-Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin -Germany would be divided into 4 zones -Set up U.N. -Soviets were given concessions for entering war against Japan -USSR agreed to hold elections in Eastern Europe -War crimes trials would be held after war |
Yalta Conference
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