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McDougal Littell - The Americans - Chp 17 Vocabulary
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11th Grade
03/10/2010

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George Marshall
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General who pushed for the formations of a WAAC, having women in the military
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A Philip Randolph
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The nation's leading African-American labor leader
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Nisei
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Japanese American citizen
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OPA
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Fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods
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WPB
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Decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries
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Rationing
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Establishing fixed allotment of goods
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Dwight Eisenhower
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American general who commanded an invasion of North Africa
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944, Invasion of Normandy, Ally victory
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George Patton
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General who helped liberate France
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Harry Truman
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Guy who took over after Roosevelt died
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Battle of the Bulge
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Denting of Allied lines
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V-E Day
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May 8, 1945, victory in Europe day, first part of war was over
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Douglas MacArthur
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General who commanded American and Filipino troops and was forced to abandon the Philippines
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Chester Nimitz
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Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific, intercepted Japanese invasion force
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Kamikaze
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Suicide bombers
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Manhattan Project
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Most ambition scientific enterprise in history, created atomic bomb
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J Robert Oppenheimer
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Scientist that headed atomic bomb construction
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Hiroshima
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Important Japanese military center,w here the first atomic bomb was dropped
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Nagasaki
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2nd city to be bombed
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Yalta Conference
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Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met at the Soviet City of Yalta
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United Nations
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International peacekeeping body
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Nuremberg Trials
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Tried for actions committed during the war
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GI Bill of Rights
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Paid for soldiers
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James Farmer
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Civil rights leader, formed interracial organization
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CORE
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Organization to confront urban segregation in the North
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JACL
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Organization that pushed the govt to compensate those sent to camps
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