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37 Cards in this Set
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Vessels built in the united states that usually carried troops or war supplies
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Liberty Ships
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techniue by which planes scattered large numbers of bombs
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carpet bombing
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government savings notes bought by Americans to help finance the war
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War bonds
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home projects that raised vegetables during WW2
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Victory gardens
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Referred to U.S. Serviceman
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GI
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Suicide plane
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Kamikaze
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Effort launched to invade Western Europe
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D-Day
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Offensive Strategy of American admirals to beat the Japanese in the Pacific
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Island-hopping
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Why did Roosevelt create the office of war mobilization
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To centralize agencies dealing with war production
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What was an example of deficit spending during the war
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Using borrowed money to finance war production
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what led the goverment to evacuate Japanese Americans from the West coast
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Long-held prejudice, and fears inflamed by the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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The United States began to emerge from the depression as a result of
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Producing goods for the Allied Forces
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Henry Kaiser contributed to wartime production by
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Using mass production techniques to build liberty ships
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Financing the war with borrowed money was an example of
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Deficit spending
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The Selective Training and Service Act required military service registration for all male between the ages of
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21 and 36
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To meet the demand for war material the American Government
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Directed the War production of businesses
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Instead of making cars, the Ford company converted to making
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B-24 Liberator Bombers
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To finance the war, the federal government did all of the following except
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reduce Corporate profits
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the complicated Allied Invasion to take Europe back from the Axis Powers began
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On D-Day
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The Battle of Bulge was
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the largest battle fought in Western Europe during ww2
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What was one of the main goals ofthe Nazis in the 1930s
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Get rid of the Jews
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What action did the Nazis take to trip Jews of their German citizenship
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Passed the Nuremberg laws
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what was the "Final solution to the Jewish question announced by the Nazis at the Wannsee Conference"
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Kill all the Jews
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Japan's Surrender Came less than a week after
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the destruction of Nagasaki
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The federal goverment acted against employment discriminationby creating
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the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
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During world war 2 african american soldiers
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fought in segregated units
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believed in
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Using nonviolent techniques to end racism
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Mexican American Laborers lived in spanish-speaking neighborhoods called
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Barrios
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During WW2, many japanese Americans were interned or
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Confined to camps in isolated areas
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After the war, Women were expected to
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leave their jobs and return home, giving the men back their jobs
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which of the following best dexcribes "Code Talkers"
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Navajo radio operators who helped secure communications in the Pacific
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which of the following took place on D-Day
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The Landing of allied forces on France's Normandy Coast
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In what part of the world were the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalacanal Fought
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the Pacific
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Which of the following best describes Japanese Kamikazes
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bomb-loaded planes whose pilots deliberately crashed into targets
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What finally Brought an end to world war 2
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the dropping of atomic bombs by the U.S. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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An important strategy used by American forces in the Pacific was
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Island-hopping
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In 1988, Crongress passed a law awarding each surviving Japanese American internee
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$20,000 tax-free money and an apology
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