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Deprived of the right to vote

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Disenfranchised

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WAAC’s first director

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Oveta Culp Hobby

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Sr. promoted to Brigadier general, Jr. commanded Tuskegee Airmen

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Benjamin O David Sr. and Jr.

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First black aviators in the US Army Corps

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Tuskegee Airmen

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African American battalion, commended for service during Battle of the Bulge

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761st Tank Battalion

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Government contracts to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce an item plus a guaranteed percentage

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Cost plus contracts

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Women’s (Auxiliary) Army Corps, women served in noncombat positions

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WAAC/WAC

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New industrial region created in southern California

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Sun belt

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Men’s clothing of extreme cut typically consisting of a thigh-length jacket with wide padded shoulders and baggy pants with narrow cuffs

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Zoot suits

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Supreme Court decision to uphold Japanese American internment

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Korematsu vs. United States

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Seven major shipyards along US west coast, granted wartime production contracts

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Kaiser Shipyards

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Protested discrimination in military and industry, organized a march on Washington

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Phillip Randolph

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13
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Designed to ease labor shortages for Mexican farmworkers

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Bracero Program

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No vest, no cuffs, short jacket, narrow lapels

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Victory suit

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Restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to a limited supply

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Rationing

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Garden planted by citizens during war to raise vegetables for home use, leaving more for troops

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Victory Gardens

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Improve public’s understanding of the war, produced propaganda

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Office of War Information (OWI)

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In charge of rationing

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Office of Price Administration and Office of Economic Stability

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Relocated many Japanese Americans to internment camps

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Executive Order 9066 (EO9066)

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Supreme Commander of US Forces in the Pacific

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Douglass McArthur

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US Naval Commander in the Pacific

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Chester A. Nimitz

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Led raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942

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Lt. Col James Doolittle

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An amphibious tractor used to move troops from ship to shore

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Amphtrac

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During WW2, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target

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Kamikaze

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The outer boundary of something
Periphery
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German commander known as "Desert Fox"
Erwin Rommel
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Commanded by Rommel in North Africa
Afrika Korps
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Supreme Allied commander in Europe
General Dwight Eisenhower
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Slams into German lines at Battle of Bulge, US wins
General George S. Patton
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The overall plan for the invasion and battle at Normandy
Operation Overlord
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An enclosure made of dirt walls covered in shrubbery built to fence in cattle and crops
Hedgerow
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A type of jellied gasoline
Napalm
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Becomes president when FDR dies of a stroke in April 1945
Harry S. Truman
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Air Force general who implemented strategic bombing campaign in Pacific
General Curtis Lemay
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Conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933
Leo Szilard
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In charge of the camp at Los Alamos, New Mexico
General Leslie Groves
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In charge of the think tank to build the atomic bomb
Robert J. Oppenheimer
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A political system header by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and often racism and no tolerance of opposition, implemented by Germany, Japan, and Italy
Fascism
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Written by Hitler, set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that becomes the plan of action for the Nazi Party
Mein Kampf
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Hitler annexes Austria on March 11, 1938
Anschluss
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Czechs gave Hitler the Sudetenland in return for guarantee there would be no further German aggression
Munich Conference
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Giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid all-out conflict
Appeasement
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Agreement between Germany and USSR to avoid war and split Poland, August 1939, invasion of Poland brings Great Britain and France into war
Non-Aggression Pact
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Passed by Congress to keep the US out of war by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937
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A national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity
Internationalism
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Sale of military supplies to allies, they had to pay cash and transport the supplies on their own ship
Cash-and-carry
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Foremost US isolationist pressure group against American entry into WW2
America First Committee
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Set up a system that would allow the US to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed vital to US defense
Lend-Lease Act
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US and Britain, stated to seek no land gain in the war, respect principles of free trade, and give the right for people to choose their governments
Atlantic Charter
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Day of Pearl Harbor attack
December 7, 1941
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The intent to kill in whole or part a national, ethnic, religious, or racial group
Genocide
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Anti-Semitic laws against Jews, originated by the Nazi Government in 1935
Nuremberg Laws
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Night of Broken Glass, Nazis raided Jewish homes, stores, and killed Jewish people
Kristallnacht
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Carried +900 Jewish refugees in 1939 to escape persecution, denied permission to land in Cuba
St. Louis Affair
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A meeting in which the "final solution" and use of concentration camps were decided in 1942
Wannsee Conference
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A camp where men, women, and children were sent to be executed
Extermination Camps
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Founded Italy's Fascist movement, became Europe's first dictatorship
Benito Mussolini
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Lenin's successor, Soviet dictator in 1926, began massive effort to industrialize the country using the Five-Year Plan
Joseph Stalin
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Leader of Nazi Party, wrote Mein Kampf which highlighted hatred for Jews and other minorities
Adolf Hitler
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Japanese minister of war, threatened to overthrow government when the emperor asked him to withdraw troops from China
Hideki Tojo
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Prime minister, pledged support to France, its ally
Neville Chamberlain
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French general, led the French resistance forces from the French colony of Algiers, refused to recognize French defeat
Charles de Gaulle
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British prime minister, vowed Britain would never surrender
Winston Churchill
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Polish Jew, shot a German diplomat, Nazis used his assassination as pretext to launch Kristallnacht
Herschel Grynszpan

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