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War Production Board
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Increased military production and directed the conversion of existing factories to wartime production and supervised the building of new plants.
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Office of War Mobilization
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Coordinated all the production and distribution of consumer goods.
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Selective Training and Service Act
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Provided for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Commanded the Filipino troops.
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese soldiers forced the more than 70,000 survivors to march through the jungle on their way to prison camp. More than 10,000 died.
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Chester Nimitz
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Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Battle where the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. Was a very important Allied victory
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Battle of Midway
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The second major naval battle in the Pacific. U.S. victory proved crucial
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Erwin Tommel
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Commander of German Afrika Korps. Known as Desert Fox.
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Bernard Montgomery
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Commanded the British in their victory in the Battle of El Alamein.
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braceros
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Mexican farm and railroad workers taht came north to work in the Southwest during WWII
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zoot-suit riots
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U.S. sailors roamed the city attacking zoot-suit-clad Mexican American youths.
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internment
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Forced relocation and imprisonment
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Office of War Information
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Controlled the flow of war news at home
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Rosie the Riveter
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Symbol of patriotic female defense workers.
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A. Philip Randolph
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African American labor leader. Planned a march on Washington DC to protest discrimination against black workers.
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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Investigated companies engaged in defense work to make sure that all qualified applicants, regardless of race, were considered for job openings.
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Carlos E. Castañeda
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Served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas.
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Norman Mineta
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One imprisoned Japanese American who saw his neighbors being taken away for questioning by the FBI.
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sonar
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Equipment that uses sound waves to detect underwater objects
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genocide
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The deliberate annihilation of an entire people
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Commanded the invasion of Operation Torch for the U.S. and British soldiers
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George S. Patton
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Guided the U.S. forces during the invasion of Italy
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Battle of the Atlantic
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World War II naval campaign fought between German U-boats and Allied naval and air forces
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George C. Marshall
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Key Allied strategist who led the planning of Operation Overload
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D-Day
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June 6; WWII Allied invasion of France
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Omar Bradley
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Led the U.S. troops that landed at Normandy.
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Holocaust
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Nazi Germany's slaughter of European Jews
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Elie Wiesel
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Romanian-born writer who survived the Holocaust and wrote about the deep psychological scars left on concentration camp survivors.
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Battle of the Bulge
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WWII battle in which the Allies defeated the final German offensive
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Yalta Conference
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Meeting of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to plan for the postwar world
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island-hopping
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U.S. WWII strategy of conquering only the Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan
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kamikaze
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Japanese suicide planes during WWII
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Last, largest, and most deciseve naval engagement in the Pacific during WWII; afterward, the Japanese fleet no longer seriosly threatended th eAllies
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Penultimate island invasion of the Pacific campaign and possibly the most intense battle of WW II.
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Battle of Okinawa
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Landing day for Okinawa , the final land battle of the Pacific War, was Easter Sunday , 1 April 1945.
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Harry S. Truman
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America's new president
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Manhattan Project
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A United States project lasting from August 1942 to August 1946, which developed the atomic bomb.
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Albert Einstein
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German physicist.
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Enola Gay
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U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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