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Congress approved the _________ when france surrendered in 1940; first peacetime draft in American history?

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Selective training and service act

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New recruits were given physical exams and vaccinations against __________?

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Smallpox and typhoid fever

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Department of Agriculture transferred over 350000 acres to _____________ and deemed it for the construction of military bases?

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War Department

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What commanded most African American units in the military?

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A White Man

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Campaign launched by the Pittsburgh Courier to stop the racism at home and Hitler’s racism abroad?

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Double V

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The Air Force’s first African American unit?

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Tuskegee Airmen

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The Airmen helped in __________?

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The Battle of Anzio

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Highest ranking African American officer promoted to brigadier general

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Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

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African American 761st tank battalion used in?

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Battle of the Bulge

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Native Americans who relayed orders and critical information in the Navajo language over radios

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Code Talkers

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Only 17 Hispanic Americans received the _________ at the end of the war

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Congressional Medal of Honor

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Served in the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

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Second-generation Japanese Americans

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Women were allowed in the army when the ____________ was created

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Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later the Womens army corps)

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Business leaders would serve on the ______________

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National Defense Advisory Committee

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Government contract to pay a manufacturer for the cost of production plus a guaranteed profit

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Cost-plus contracts

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Made over 12000 flights to deliver planes for the war effort

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WASPs Women Air force Service Pilots

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Made loans to companies wanting to support the war effort

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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18
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Created the B-24 “Liberator” bomber

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Henry Ford

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Built the liberty ships, or small basic cargo ships

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Henry Kaiser

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Created to direct priorities and production goals for military factories

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War Production Board

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What was the name of the B-24 bomber?

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Liberator

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22
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The symbol of the campaign to hire women

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Rosie the Riveter

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Created to coordinate government housing programs

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National housing agency

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Industrial region in the Deep South and southern California

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Sunbelt

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Head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

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A. Philip Randolph

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Suits with baggy pants and overstuffed jackets; became associated with juvenile crime and racism against Mexican Americans

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Zoot Suits

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How much money was granted to surviving Japanese Americans by legislation from Ronald Reagan?

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$20000

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28
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Tried to prevent strikes

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War Labor Board

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Created by FDR to regulate wages and certain prices

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OPACS (Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply) and OES (Office of Economic Stabilization)

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30
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Gardens encouraged in film reels, pamphlets, and official statements; used by Americans to get what they need to eat without spending ration coupons

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Victory gardens

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Drives to collect rubber, tin, aluminum, and steel to recycle for the war effort

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Scrap drives

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created to improve people’s understanding of the war and to act as a liaison office with the various media

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Office of War Information (OWI)

33
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Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific

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Admiral Chester Nimitz

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Commander of the US troops in the Phillippines

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General Douglas MacArthur

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A forced, 78000 man, 65 mile march from the Bataan Peninsula to Manilla

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The Bataan Death March

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Commander in charge of the mission to bomb Tokyo

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Colonel James Doolittle

37
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Long-range bombers that could attack from farther back

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B-25 bombers

38
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Transmitted the planes for the Midway attack by radio

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Admiral Yanamoto

39
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Turning point of the war in the Pacific

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Battle of Midway

40
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Campaign to make it across the Pacific to Japan

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Island Hopping

41
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Navy’s first objective, part of the Gilbert Island

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Tarawa

42
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“Divine Wind”

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Kamikaze

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First battle where ships sunk each other without seeing each other. Largest Naval battle of WW2

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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First used to rescue people in Florida swamps

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amphtrac

45
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New heavy bomber in WW2

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B-29 super fortress

46
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Used as a base for B-29 bombers

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the Marianas Islands

47
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Nicknamed “Desert Fox,” commanded the “Afrika Korps”

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German general Erwin Rommel

48
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2 French territories indirectly under German control that were invaded in 1942, ordered by FDR

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Morocco and Algeria

49
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Commanded American troops invading North Africa and put general Patton in command of the battalion after they lost the Battle of Kasserine Pass

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

50
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System in which merchant ships travel with naval vessels for protection

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convoy system

51
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Target of German attack to defeat the Soviet Union; Controlled the Volga River and was a major railroad junction

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Stalingrad

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Conference to discuss what to do after the Battle of Stalingrad and to step up the bombing of Germany

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Casablanca Conference

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Island in Italy attacked by the allies under the command of Eisenhower

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Sicily

54
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King of Italy

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Victor Emmanuel

55
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Bloodiest conflict of WW2

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Anzio

56
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Operation also known as D-day in which the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy in France

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Operation Overlord

57
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Fortification of the French Coast along the English Channel all the way up to the coast at Norway

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Atlantic Wall

58
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Resisted the German occupation by staging a rebellion in Paris

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The French Resistance

59
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Where was FDR when he died of a stroke?

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Warm Springs, GA

60
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A type of jellied gasoline used in the bombings of Japan

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Napalm

61
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Island chosen by America to stockpile supplies and build up troops

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Okinawa

62
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Headed the Manhattan Project

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General Leslie R. Groves

63
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Headed the team to build and test the first atomic bombs

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Piloted the Enola Gay which dropped “Little Boy”

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Paul Tibbetts

65
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Didn’t want to use the bomb because of civilian casualties

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William Leahy

66
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Wanted to warn the Japanese

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Henry Stimson

67
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Wanted to bomb the Japanese without warning

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James Byrn

68
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Dropped the bomb, “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki

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Bockscar

69
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August 15, 1945

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VJ Day

70
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Stated that there would be no discrimination in the workplace based on race, creed, color, or national origin

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executive order 8802

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Head of american ground troops; put in charge by Eisenhower

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Patton

72
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German troops in Africa headed by the desert fox

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Afrika Korps

73
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What country was invaded on D-day

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Normandy

74
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Conference where Stalin agreed to help the US defeat the Germans

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Tehran Conference

75
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June 6

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D-day

76
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First part of Japan attacked with an atomic bomb

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Hiroshima

77
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Second city to be bombed with an atomic bomb

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Nagasaki

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