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War Production Board |
- 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 |
- control prices during the war |
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Fair Employment Practices Commission |
- preventing discrimination of workers in defense and government |
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Congress of Racial Equality |
- One of the first original civil rights movements. - Attempt to end mass segregation and discrimination |
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Code Talkers |
- Native americans in the ware who spoke secrets in their native language so that Germans couldn't understand |
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George Marshall |
- Chief of Staff remained in the U.S.& worked with Congress. |
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- Douglas McArthur - Dwight Eisenhower - Chester Nimitz |
- 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 |
- 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 |
- 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 |
- Led German forces in N. Africa - stopped by forces led by American General Bernard Montgomery |
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Bernard Montgomery |
American general |
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D-Day |
June 6, 1944, Normandy, France. -- Greatest assemblageof men and equipment in history of war. Commanded by Eisenhower |
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Election of 1944 |
Roosevelt (democrat) won Dewey (republican) |
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Battle of the Bulge |
- Alliedforce, led by Gen. TonyMcAuliffe, Weatherwas cold & foggy. Next day weather cleared. Allies came to the rescue. |
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Holocaust |
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 |
- massive cerebral hemorrhage resulting in death on April 12th |
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Harry Truman |
President after TR #33 |
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VE day |
victory in Europe, Germany surrendered |
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Island Hopping/ Leap frogging |
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 |
Greatestnaval battle in the war |
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Iwo Jima |
- Feb. 17-Mar 17, 1945 |
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Okinawa |
- April 1-June 21-- 350 miles from Japan |
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Kamikaze |
crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship. |
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Manhattan Project |
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 |
Victory in Japan fterthe United States dropped two Atomic bombs at Hiroshima & Nagasaki |