History 101 Final Exam

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War Production Board

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- Converted factories into bomber production

- Purpose was to ration things needed for the war such as gasoline

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Office of Price Administration

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- control prices during the war

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Fair Employment Practices Commission

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- preventing discrimination of workers in defense and government

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Congress of Racial Equality

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- One of the first original civil rights movements.

- Attempt to end mass segregation and discrimination

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Code Talkers

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- Native americans in the ware who spoke secrets in their native language so that Germans couldn't understand

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George Marshall

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- Chief of Staff remained in the U.S.& worked with Congress.

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- Douglas McArthur

- Dwight Eisenhower

- Chester Nimitz

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- Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific, based in Australia led army in assaults on New Guinea & Philippines.

- Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

Commander in D-day

- Admiral commanded from Hawaii directed key assaults on the central Pacific islands.

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Coral Sea

Midway

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- First battle fought entirely with aircraft

(U.S. victory)

- Midway was the last Japanese assault. Threat to West Coast and Hawaii now over.

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Battle of Stalingrad

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- TheGermans were defeated by the Russians and this was the turning point of the waron the Eastern Front.

- Germansoldiers were surrounded by the Russians. Germans surrendered Feb. 1, 1943

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Erwin Rommel

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- Led German forces in N. Africa

- stopped by forces led by American General Bernard Montgomery

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Bernard Montgomery

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American general

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944, Normandy, France. -- Greatest assemblageof men and equipment in history of war. Commanded by Eisenhower

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Election of 1944

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Roosevelt (democrat) won

Dewey (republican)

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Battle of the Bulge

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- Alliedforce, led by Gen. TonyMcAuliffe, Weatherwas cold & foggy. Next day weather cleared. Allies came to the rescue.

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Holocaust

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Slaughter of undesirables including an estimate of an estimated 6 million Jews, as well as torturing them, separating families into concentration camps where they were tortured, experimented on, and hated upon for pure enjoyment

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Roosevelt's Death

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- massive cerebral hemorrhage resulting in death on April 12th

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Harry Truman

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President after TR

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VE day

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victory in Europe, Germany surrendered

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Island Hopping/ Leap frogging

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MacArthur:Leap frog- strategic island to strategic island

Nimitz: islandhopping- central Pacific key islands on towards Japan.:

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Leyte Gulf and Philippine Sea

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Greatestnaval battle in the war

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Iwo Jima

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- Feb. 17-Mar 17, 1945

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Okinawa

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- April 1-June 21-- 350 miles from Japan

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Kamikaze

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crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.

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Manhattan Project

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ledby Albert Einstein &Robert Oppenheimer with a $2Billion budget developed the Atomic Bomb. IAllies demanded Japan surrender or face, "Prompt &utter destruction."

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VJ Day

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Victory in Japan fterthe United States dropped two Atomic bombs at Hiroshima & Nagasaki