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Chapter 12.5 Flashcards

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Rationing

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gas (driving restricted & speed limits), meat, sugar, give coupons in to cover purchases

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Convoy System

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cargo ships travel in groups escorted by navy warships

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Amphtrac

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a tractor essential to the US forces during WWI

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Cost-plus

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helped with the production used costs instead of bids

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Periphery

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edges of the German empire

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Sunbelt

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a region consisting of about 15 states in the South and southwestern US

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Disenfrenchise

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African Americans were denied their right to vote

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Victory Gardens

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in all available land

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Kamikaze

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a suicide crash

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Hedgerow

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dirt walls, several feet thick covered in shrubbery

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Napalm

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a kind of jellied gasoline, used to start fires

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Manhatten Project

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American programs built atomic bombs

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V-J Day (Date)

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Japan Surrenders (5-15-1945)

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D-Day

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Invasion on Normandy (6 - 6 - 1944)

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Double “V” Compaign

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Some African Americans did not want to support the war

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Bracero Program

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  1. migrant worker program
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Casablanca Conference

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  1. a meeting when Roosevelt and Churchill focused on coordinating Allied military strategy against the Axis powers over the course of the coming year
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Tehran Conference

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a meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin in Iran

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Bataan Death March

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the prisoners of war were forced to march through bad weather conditions without medical care

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Island Hopping

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hopping from one island to another

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Battle of Leyte Golf

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largest naval battle in history, lots of kamikaze

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Battle of the Coral Sea

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first battle the US lost, Japan won and 8 ships sunk

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Battle of MIdway

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turning point for the US, US succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers

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Battle of the Atlantic

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the longest continuous military campaign in WWII and the Allies were victorious

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Battle of Stalingrad

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the Germans underestimate the Soviet’s response and lose b/c of it

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Battle of the Bulge

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  • Germans work quick, surround several groups of troops, Patton and tanks break through lines
  • Germans lose fuel
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Iwo Jima

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Perfect location roughly halfway between the Marianas and Japan

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United Nations

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delegates from 39 countries met to discuss the new organization. (1944)

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Office of Econmic Stablization

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regulate wages price of farm products

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War Labor Board

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prevents strikes while men are at war

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Office of Price Administration

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regulates all other prices

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Korematsu v. US

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the Supreme Court ruled that the relocation was constitutional bc it was based not on race, but on “military urgency.”( December 1944)

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Selective Service and Training Act

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a plan for the first peacetime draft in American history, for a while, many ppl opposed it

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Navajo Code Talkers

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Navajo men who created a code based on complex, unwritten Navajo language

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Japanese American Citizens League

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  • president Reagan apologized
  • granted $20k each in 1988
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International Military Tribunal

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Nuremberg, Germany, the IMT tried German leaders suspected of committing war crimes

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FDR

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President during WWII

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Winston Churchill

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British Prime MInister

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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General that commanded the invasion during Operation Overload

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Douglas MacArthur

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  • served as the General of the Army for the US and served in the Korean War, WWI, & WWII
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Omar Bradley

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a sentor US Army officer who served as field commander of American soldiers during the Allied

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George Patten

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General who captured the city of Casablanca

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Chester Nimitz

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admiral in the US Navy, and led our victory over Japan in WWII

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Use of the Atomic Bomb

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purpose was to end the war

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Operation Overload

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  • General Eisenhower in command of invasion
  • Allies place dummies to trick Germans
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Explanation of the Double V Campaign

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made to oppose racism that Hitler created by joining the war effort

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Creation of the United Nations

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everyone in the world would have one vote
Five countries that would be permanent > Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union

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