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First peacetime conscription act in the U.S. for WWII (also known as Selective Service and Training Act)

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Burke-Wadsworth Act

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Another name for Burke-Wadsworth Act; 1st peacetime conscription act in U.S. for WWII

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Selective Service and Training Act

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U.S. group that registered and selected men for conscription by Selective Service and Training Act

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Draft boards

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Coordinated defense projects; creation committee

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Office of Production Management (OPM)

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Committee helped create fridges to airplanes; convert everything to help the battle

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War Production Board (WPB)

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Committee helped give loans to people wanting to build factories

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Committee that created ceilings so inflation didn’t occur

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Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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Committee that created no strike pledges and worked with unions to keep them in their jobs

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National War Labor Board

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Also known as Smith-Connally act; made it illegal for workers to protest

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War Labor Disputes Act

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Mexicans work in U.S. because of this

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Bracero Program

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Citizens grew these to provide produce for army officers

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“victory gardens”

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US raised tax rates on both individuals and corporations and increased taxes on excess profits

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The Revenue Act of 1942

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Consolidated government news services in America and abroad; Connection between battlefront and civilians

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Office of War Information

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Supreme Court; uphold freedom of speech

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Hartzel v. United States

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Cartoons about war

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“Private Snafu” & “Der Fuehrer’s Face”

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Paper that ordered Japanese internment

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Executive Order 9066

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Agency that handled internment

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War Relocation Authority (WRA)

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Females w/ full military status

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Women’s Army Corps

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Females in navy

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WAVES

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Flying females

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WASPs

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Female Coast Gaurd

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SPARs

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Female Marines

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Women Reservists

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Poster girl; “We can do it!”; encourage women workers (WWII)

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Rosie the Riveter

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Document after WWI; Germany affected greatly (negative)

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Treaty of Versailles

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Attempt to remove tensions between countries esp. France and Germany

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Locarno Pact

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Group by Pres. Wilson to prevent other wars; not very effective

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League of Nations

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U.S. laws that made them isolationist in beginning of WWII

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Neutrality Acts

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Tried to limit naval arms race

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Washington Conference

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US agreement that says war is bad

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Kellog-Briand Pact

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takes place in Manchuria; Japan invading Chinese islands; 1st example of appeasement

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Mudken Incident

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Italy invades African nation; makes Italy leave; 2nd example of appeasement

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Abyssinian Crisis

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Reaffirm Locarno Pact

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Stresa Front

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Fascists Vs Republicans; Fascists win

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Spanish Civil War

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letting countries do what they please

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Appeasement

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document concerning British and Germany’s battleships; allows (Hitler’s country) to have an army of battleships

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Anglo-German Naval Agreement

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Demilitarized zone for Treaty of Versailles; soon militarized by Hitler

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Rhineland

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Occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany

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Anschluss

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Living space; Weltpolitik part 2

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Lebensraum

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Agreement not to act between Germany and Soviet Union; prevented 2-front war

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Non-Aggression Pact

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Alliance between Germany and Japan against Communism

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Anti-Comintern Pact

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Alliance between Germany and Italy

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Rome-Berlin Axis

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Czechoslovakia divided and Hitler given Sudetenland

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Munich Conference

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Hitler given this at Munich Conference

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Sudetenland

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Country split between USSR and Germany

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Poland

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Germany did this; no rules of sea battles; WWI & WWII

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unrestricted submarine warfare

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Allies guided merchant systems through ocean

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convoy system

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Group of German battleships to be used against sonar systems

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wolf pack

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Early sonar system; detects enemy ships

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ASDIC

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Anti submarine technology that detected submarines

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radar

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Dreadnaught of WWII

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Bismarck

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German air force

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Luftwaffe

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Turning point; 1st time German forces do not achieve major goal

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Battle of Britain

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Germans bomb British city

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London Blitz

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German soldiers fought against Soviet Union for control of the Russian leader’s namesake country

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Another name for battle of Normandy, or d day

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Operation Overlord

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Where D day took place

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Normandy

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Conflict where German soldiers attacked through dense forest, big surprise

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Battle of the Bulge

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“Cut of the Sickle”; German advance through Belgium

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Manstein Plan

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“Death’s Head”; Germans go into Poland to kill civilian Jews

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Totenkopf

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Concentration camps for Jews

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Holocaust

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When allied forced evacuated out of France because Germans surrounded them

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Operation Dynamo

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Fired from front of the ship; three large charges

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squid

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Fired from back of the ship; 24 small charges

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hedgehog

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Sea trap of mines

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Dover barrage

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Fast, small ships

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frigate & corvette

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Planes go from deck of the ship to the air

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Catapult Aircraft Merchant Ships

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Used as main warships of a fleet

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Aircraft Carriers

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Big space in the middle of the ocean; didn’t let airplanes fly long distances

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Mid-Atlantic Gap

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British single seat fighter plane

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Spitfire

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Group that looked at pictures and gave information abiut it

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Central Interpretation Unit

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Created German encryption

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Enigma machine

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Large aircrafts without propellers that were tethered to one place, prevent movement

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barrage balloons

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Transmit strong radio waves in the same frequency as the radar

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jammer

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Cloud of thin lightweight strips of metal cut to a specific size, which can be dispersed from a heavy bomber

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chaffs

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German “lightning” war during WWII; everything is fast

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Blitzkreig

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French state during WWII

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Vichy, France

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Fortifications along Franco-German border

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Maginot line

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Used to accurately drop explosions

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bomb sights

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British intelligence

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MI 4

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2 man German dive bomber

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Stukas

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British flying

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RAF

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WWII alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy

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Axis Powers

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WWII alliance between France, English, and later U.S.

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Allies

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German tanks and infantry

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Panzer units

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Germany invades Soviet Union; largest invasion in history of warfare

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Operation Barbarossa

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WWII conflict at sea

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Battle of the Atlantic

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Nazi German leader

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Adolph Hitler

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Fascist Italian leader

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Benito Mussolini

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Leader of Soviet Union after Lenin

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Joseph Stalin

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U.S. President FDR during Great Depression

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Franklin Roosevelt

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