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chapter 14
ww2
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History
11th Grade
02/19/2015

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double V compaign
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urged African Americans to join the war
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nuremberg trials
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2 nazi leaders prosecuted, 3 prison camps, 7 prison, and 12 death
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convoy system
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cargo ships escorte by navy warships
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tehran conference
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roosevelt and churchill metstalin in Tehran, Iran

 

Stalin promised to attack Germany

Roosevelt and Stalin would divide Germany

Stalin would help US againt Japan

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Harry S Truman
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(pres) believed must use every weapon to protect US
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Douglas Mac Arthur
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BAD -ignored Hoover's orders to only clear buildings
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Afrian American pilots from Alabama
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Enola Gay
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plane that dropped the atomic bomb
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Robert Oppenheimer
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led team to buils atomic bomb
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Nazis vs Soviet

German loss when cut off from supplies

*COLD*

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Korematsu vs Us
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court case that said it was okay to send Japanese to internment camps
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manhattan project
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American programs to build an atomic bomb
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international military tribunal
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group of people who decided in the nuremberg trials
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selective service & training act
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a plan for first peacetime draft
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Kasserine pass
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led by Eisenhower with Patton (British leader) & they pushed back Germans
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Chester Nimitz
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US leader at Midway
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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first director of Women's Army Auxilary Corps
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