chapter 20 Flashcards

1
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What is the double v

A

african american newspaper tjt urged the African Americans to support the war to achieve a double victory

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2
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What was the automobile that was produced in WW2

A

tanks

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3
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what is the selective service training act

A

plan for the first peacetime draft in america history.

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4
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what replaced short range bomber

A

b 25

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5
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what general invaded north Africa

A

George Patton and Dwight D Eisenhower

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6
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what is a victory suit

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a suit w no vest cuffs, a short jacket to save fabric for the war

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7
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what is the sunbelt

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when people moved to the mid west and morth east to work during the war for work

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8
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what campaign invasion of the south west pacific

A

southwest pacific theater

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9
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when was the united nations formed

A

October 24, 1945

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10
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what germans goal battle of bulge

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to cut off allied supplies in Belgium

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11
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cost-plus

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the government agrees to pay the company whatever it cost to make a product plus the cost of the profit

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12
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Liberty-ship

A

basic cargo ship used

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13
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disfranchise

A

African Americans denied the right to vote

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14
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reconstruction fiance

A

government agency set up during the depression to make loans to companies

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15
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war production board

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they could set priorities and production goals and control the distribution

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16
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periphery

17
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convoy system

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where cargo ships traveled in groups so they would not be bombed

18
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Chester Nimitz

A

admiral commander of the us navy in the pacific

19
Q

Douglas McCarthy

A

general who was fighting in the Philippians

20
Q

James Doolittle

A

colonel who was in charge of landing in china after attacking japan

21
Q

George Patton

A

general who captured the city of Casablanca

22
Q

rationing

A

limiting the availability of products

23
Q

victory garden

A

gardens that the government encouraged to people to have so that the American war people would have food

24
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roise the riveter

A

a great symbol of the campaign. was popular in the song four vegabonds

25
a Phillip Randolph
head of the brotherhood of a sleeping car porters
26
zoot suit
very baggy pleated pants. which most Americans did not like
27
e bond
most common type of bond which the government set into place to raise money
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amphtrac
an amphibious tractor made to rescue people in florida swamps
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kamikaze
divine wind or a storm that that destroyed the mongol fleet during an invasion of japan
30
casablanca confrence
when Roosevelt and Churchill decided to step up the bombing of Germany
31
oporation overload
code name for a planned invasion
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dday
the day that an invasion could begin