Chapter 27 Americans In World War Ii

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War Production Board

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created by Roosevelt in January 1942 to increase military production.

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office to War Mobilization (OWM)

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coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort.

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Selective Training and Service Act

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summer of 1940, the U.S. called the National Guard to active duty

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Douglas MacArthur

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Had overall command of Philippines and Filipino troops.

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Bataan Death March

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more than 10,000 died on a march through the jungle on their way to a prison camp.

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Battle of the Coral Sea

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an important allied victory, seized Tulagi Island.

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Battle of Midway

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second major naval battle in the Pacific, took place in early June 1942.

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Bernard Montgomery

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British general turned a shortage of men and supplies to their advantage.

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Erwin Rommel

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commander of German Afrika Korps.

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Chester Nimitz

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The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet who did not consider the attack on Pearl Harbor a complete disaster.

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Office of War Information

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controlled the flow of war news at home

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Roosie the Riveter

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symbol of patriotic female defense workers

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A. Philip Randolph

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planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest discrimination against black workers

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Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)

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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. Castaneda

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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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braceros

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came north to work in the Southwest during WWII

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zoot-suit-riots

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Mexican American Youths.

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internment

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forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans living on Pacific Coast

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Norman Mineta

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a nisei from San Jose, California

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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commanded the invasion force of U.S. and British

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George S. Patton

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had emerged as a leader during the North Africa campaign

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Battle of the Atlantic

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begins to turn in the Allies' favor

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sonar

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equipment that uses sound waves

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George C. Marshall

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led planning in U.S. Army

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944 landed farther south in Normandy

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Omar Bradley

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led the US troops that landed at Normandy

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Holocaust

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Nazi Germany's systematic slaughter of Jews

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genocide

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deliberate annihilation of an entire people

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Elie Wiesel

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was one survivor

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Battle of the Bulge

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some 200,000 Germans attacked an initial U.S. force of about 80,000 troops

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Yalta Conference

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plan for the postwar peace

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island-hopping

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troops would attack and seize only certain islands.

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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last, longest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific

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Battle of Iwo Jima

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lasted six weeks held on the island of Iwo Jima

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kamikaze

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suicide planes

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Battle of Okinawa

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bloodies battle of the Pacific

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Harry S. Truman

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the new president

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Manhattan Project

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the effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb since 1942

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Albert Einstein

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a physicist who moved from Germany to the United States

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Enola Gay

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bomber who was commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets