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Chapter14 America And World War 2 Flashcards

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Vehicles

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Cars

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Cost plus

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Government agreed to pay a company whatever it cost to make a Product plus a guaranteed percentage

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War production board

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the authority to set priorities and production materials and supplies

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Office of war mobilization

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To settle regiments among the different agencies

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Draft

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Most members of congress apposed to the peacetime treaty

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Disenfranchised

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Deprived of the right to vote

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Double v campaign

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Urged African Americans to support the way to achieve a double victory

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Tuskegee airmen

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African American pilots that were trained in Tuskegee

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Oveta culp hobby

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Official with the war department to serve as its first director

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Women’s army corps

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First women officers who were training

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Chester Nimitz

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Commander of the United States Navy in the pacific

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Douglas MacArthur

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American and Filipinos commander

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Bataan death march

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78,000 war prisoners were forced to march all the wh to a a Japanese prison camp

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Corregidor

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A small island in the Bataan peninsula

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James Doolittle

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Put in command of the mission to bomb Tokyo

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Code

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A secret way to talk of exchange messages

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Periphery

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The edges of the German empire

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Targets

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Something that’s you are aiming for

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Convoy system

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Cargo ships were escorted by navy ships so they wouldn’t become targets

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A Philip Randolph

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The heard of the brother hood of sleeping

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Bracero program

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Bracero is Spanish for work

More than 200,000 Mexicans helped harvest fruits and vegetables

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Sunbelt

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Growth of Southern California and the expansion of cities in the Deep South created a new industrial region

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Great migration

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African Americans left the south I. Large numbers during World War One

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Zoot suit

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Vey baggy pleaded pants and overstuffed knee length jacked with wide lapels and sometimes wide brimmed hat

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Victory suit

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Suit with no vest, cuffs a short jacket and narrow lapels

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Justified

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To make sue that it’s a real thing

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Office of price administration

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Regulated wages and price of farm products

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Rationing

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Limiting the purchases of many products to make sure there was enough

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Victory gardens

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Planted gardens for war effort

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Casablanca conference

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Were they discussed the bombing of Germany

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D-day

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Another word for the invasion date

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Briefly

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Short and to the point

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Omar Bradley

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Commander of the American forces landing at Omaha and Utah

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Amphtrac

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Amphibious tractor

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Guadalcanal

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This is we’re the campaign started in the southern islands

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Kamikaze

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Means divine winds in Japanese referring to the great storm that destroyed the Mongol fleet during its invasion of Japan I. The 13 century

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Hedgerows

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Dirt walls several feet think covered in shrubs

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Battle of bulge

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The attack on south Germany

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V e day

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May 8 1945 victory in Europe

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Harry s Truman

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Became the next president when Roosevelt died of a stroke

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Iwo Jima

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American military decided to invade this place

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Napalm

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A kind of jellied gasoline

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Manhattan project

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Secret of Americans and program to build an atomic bomb

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Nuclear

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Stuff used to make bombs more effective

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V j day

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August 15 1945

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United Nations

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39 countries met to discuss a new organization

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Charter

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Another word for Constitution

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Nuremberg trials

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Twenty two leaders of nazi Germany were persecuted here

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