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War Production Board
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in charge of converting factories to war production
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Office of War Mobilization
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coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort during WWII
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Selective Training and Service Act
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law providing for the first peacetime draft in US HistoryDou
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Douglas MacArthur
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was the commander of 30,000 & 110,000 Filipino troops
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Bataon Death March
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forced march of US and Filipino prisoners during WWII up the Batoan Peninsula over 10,000 died
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Chester Nimitz
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commander of the US Pacific Fleet
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia
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Battle of Midway
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the Allied forces crippled Japan's navy
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Erwin Rommel
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commanded the German Afrika Korps
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Bernard Montgomery
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commanded ther British troops in WWII
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