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Chapter 17 Test Flashcards

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Selective service system

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Implemented a law that would draft people into the war

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Henry Kraiser

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Built shipyards in California

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Rosie the riveter

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Symbol of women in the workforce

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OSRD

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Office of science research and development

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What did the OSRD do

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It was an office that would develop the new technologies for the war

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OPA

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Office of Price administration; thought inflation and rationed foods

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Manhattan project

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Building of the atomic bomb

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War bonds

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Raise revenue for war, fought inflation

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Rationing

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Limiting availability of resources

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Convoy system

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Surround supply ships and escort them across the ocean

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Sonar

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Locating German U-boats underwater

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Battle of Stalingrad

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August 1942 through February 1943; the turning point in the European war

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North African

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1942-1943

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Operation torch

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November 8, 1942; codename for the Allied invasion of north Africa

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Dwight Eisenhower

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American/Allied forces; commanded Africa core

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Africa core

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German fighting force in Africa

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Erwin Rommel

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Desert fox

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El Alamine

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October through November 1942; Egypt; turning point in north Africa; British stop the Germans

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Cape bon

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May 13, 1943; German surrendered to Allied forces

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What were the effects of cape bon

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Allowed island horses to move up through southern Europe; allowed for opening of the Mediterranean for ships

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Italian campaign

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Bloodiest battle because of the terrain

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Cicily

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Invaded the 1943

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Salerno beach

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September 3, 1943; First time in American forces landed on the Italian peninsula

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Battle of Anzio

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“Bloody Anzio”; 25,000 allied casualties; 30,000 axis casualties

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Tuskeegee airmen

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African pilots that trained in Tuskeegee Alabama

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442nd regimental combat team

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Most decorated unit in US history

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Normandy

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Region of France were D-Day invasion took place

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Operation overlord

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Codename for Normandy invasion

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June 6, 1944

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When the invasion of Normandy took place

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Liberation of Paris

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August 25, 1944

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Battle of the bulge

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Last German offensive of war; December 1944

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First camp to be liberated by Soviets

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Maidanek

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VE Day

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Victory in Europe; May 8, 1945

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Philippines

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April 14, 1942; American met Japanese for first time

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Doolittle raid

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April 18, 1942; dropping of bombs in Tokyo with B 25 bomber’s

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Battle of coral sea

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May 1942; US won

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Battle of Midway

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June 2-4, 1942

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Chester Nimitz

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Commander of US naval forces in the Pacific

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The effects of the battle of Midway

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Destroy the Japanese; dismantled the Japanese Navy; turning point in the Pacific theater of war

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Guadalcanal

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October 1944; a simple greatest naval force in history

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Kamikazi

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Use for the first time in Leyte gulf; suicide Japanese pilots

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Iwo Jima

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February through March 1945

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Was the purpose of Iwo Jima

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To get closer to Japan to get more accurate bomb landings

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Okinawa

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April through June 1945

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What was Okinawa

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It was the last remaining island over the Japanese mainland

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The Manhattan project

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Codename for the building of the atomic bomb

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J Robert Oppenheimer

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Lead scientist for the building of the atomic bomb

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Los Alamo’s, NM

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Main lab for the atomic bomb building

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Alamogordo

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July 16, 1945; first atomic bomb was exploded

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Hiroshima

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August 6, 1945; first target for the atomic bomb

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What was the atomic bomb drop by at Hiroshima

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Enola gay(b-29)

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Codename for the bomb at Hiroshima

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Little boy

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Nagasaki

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August 9, 1945; second target

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Bockscar

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Name of plane that dropped the bomb at Nagasaki

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Was a codename for the Nagasaki bomb

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Fat man

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September 2, 1945

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American and Japanese leaders signed a surrender on the USS Missouri

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G.I. Bill of Rights

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Promise education and money when soldiers got back from war

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Exclusive order 9066

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Roosevelt puts Japanese and cats without a hearing

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