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40 Cards in this Set
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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
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