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| another name for US servicemen |
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| Government savings notes bought by Americans to help fund the war effort |
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| A major military effort that was launched by the Allies to invade Western Europe |
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| a fighting strategies where planes dropped a large quantity of bombs over a wide area |
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| a US project at home that encouraged people to grow vegetables |
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| an offensive strategy of US admirals to beat the Japanese in the Pacific |
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| Office of War Mobilization |
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| An government agency that oversaw other agencies that dealt with war production |
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| Remote areas in the US where Japanese Americans were confined to camps |
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| work stoppages that were organized by workers but not supported by the unions |
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| Office of War Information |
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| a government agency developed to boot American patriotism and participation in the war effort |
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| a picture that was used to encourage women into the war time work force |
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| Spanish speaking neighborhoods |
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| an example of deficit spending during the war |
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| when the US used borrowed money to finance war production |
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| What was the African American situation in the North? |
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| African American's were discriminated against in the areas of housing, employment, and education |
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| Why did the US government evacuate the Japanese Americans from the West Coast? |
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| Long term prejudice against the Japanese and the fear of the Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
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| What factor led the US out of the Depression |
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| producing products for the Allied forces in WW2 |
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| How did Henry Kaiser contribute to the war time effort? |
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| He developed mass production techniques in order to build Liberty Ships |
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| What was the overall feeling of Americans in regard to the war? |
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| patriotism and high morale |
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| What were the African Americans working toward during the WW2 time period? |
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| The African Americans took direct action to promote racial equality |
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| The Selective Training and Service Act required military service registration for all males between what ages? |
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| What did the US government do in order to meet the demand for war materials? |
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| The US government directed the war production of businesses |
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| What did the Ford Motor Company make during the war instead of cars? |
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| What happened in the US work force as a result of increased war production? |
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| increased employment and a rise in union membership |
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| Where did the most serious union organized strikes take place? |
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| List 3 things the government did to raise money for the war? |
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| launch bond drives, raise income taxes, use deficit spending |
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| The first war strategy that Roosevelt and Churchill first agreed upon was |
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| to concentrate on winning the war in Europe |
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| When the allies gained control of Africa, their next war target was |
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| Where the Germans were halted in their advance into the Soviet Union, a turning point of the war |
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| A complicated invasion by the Allies whose major goal was to take Europe back from the Axis powers |
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| The largest battle that was fought on the Western front of Europe |
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| How was Germany divided amongst the Allies after they surrendered? |
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| Germany was split into 4 parts, each country governed it's own part; US, France, Britain and the Soviet Union |
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| On what basis was the United Nations formed? |
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| One of the main goals of the Nazis in the 1930's? |
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| Laws that the Nazi's passed to strip the Jews of their citizenship |
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| What was the "final solution to the Jewish question'? |
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| What did the Jews in Warsaw do in reaction to the deportation to Treblinka? |
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| What did Roosevelt create in 1944 to try to help the Jews? |
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| What idea came out of the Nuremburg Trials? |
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| that individuals are responsible for their own actions even during war times |
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| Where did the Japanese attack a few hours after they attacked Pearl Harbor? |
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| Clark Field; a US Air base |
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| What did McArthur do when the Japanese advanced their troops in the Philippines? |
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| He left the Philippines; leaving prisoners of war behind |
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| Allies sunk all four of the Japanese aircraft carriers and 250 Japanese planes; a turning point of the war in the Pacific |
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| How did the strategy of Island hopping help the Allied forces? |
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| They were able to get close enough to Japan to bomb them |
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| Goal of Manhattan Project |
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| The Japanese surrendered one week after what event? |
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| Fair Employment Practices Committee |
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| A way in which the Federal government worked to stop employment discrimination |
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| How did African Americans fight during most of WW2? |
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| they fought in segregated units |
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| What group believed in using nonviolent techniques to end racism? |
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| The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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| How did the U.S attempt to make amends to Japanese Americans for their confinement to camps during the war? |
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| In 1988 Congress awarded 20,000.00 in tax free money an and apology to all surviving Japanese American internees |
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| What unusual jobs did women take over while the men were away at war? |
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| steel workers and welders |
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| What was the expectation of women after the war was over? |
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| they were expected to leave their jobs and return to being housewives |
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| What prevented American's from spending the money they made during the war years? |
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| there was a shortage of goods to buy |
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| Navajo (American Indians) that helped secure the communications in the Pacific |
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| Where were the following Battles fought? Coral Sea; Midway; Guadalcanal |
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| What 2 events were responsible for ending the war? |
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| the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the Atomic Bomb |
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| What was V-E Day on May8 1945? |
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| The end of the war in Europe |
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| When MacArthur said "I shall return", where was he promising to return to? |
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| :the night of broken glass" ; one night when the SS, Hitler Youth and the Gestapo killed Jews, destroyed synagogues and arrested over 25,000 Jews; seen as the beginning of the "final Soultion" |
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