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| UK, US, Soviet Union, France |
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| Many Jewish people and others killed in concentration camps |
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| ship with jewish who sought protection during ww2, but nobody would take them. Ended up in Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, which Germany later took over. |
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| any new factory worker automatically joins union |
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| Smith-connally act - unions had to wait 30 days before a strike |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| helped control prices to keep them down during war |
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| taxes and bonds which helped pay for war |
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| supposed to go between army, navy and companies to provide supplies. But military did it on their own |
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| National Defense Research Committee |
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| Research for war technology with MIT |
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| told the airplanes when they were within 20 yards of a target |
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| figured out codes of Germany and Japan |
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| Polish code breaking system that could break Enigma code which changed codes constantly |
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| broke Engima codes instantly |
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| African American campaign. Victory in war and victory in racial equality |
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| march to Washington to make discrimination illegal for African Americans in defense industry |
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| illegal for discrimination in defense industries |
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| Congress of racial equality |
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| Began sit ins in restaurants, etc to end segregation |
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| said Japanese were loyal to U.S. and would not be a threat |
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| took land for Japanese internment during ww2 |
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| Supreme Court said executive order 9906 is legal |
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| temperory mexican workers to work in factories in US during world war 2 |
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| padded shoulders, baggy pants, greasy hair of mexicans. Was made illegal to wear them |
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| Native Americans who spoke in their languages so enemy wouldn't understand them |
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| stayed at home while parents at work |
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| women who worked in clerk positions in military |
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| last major battle with Germany |
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| major win against Japanese navy |
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| suicide bombers from Japan |
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| making atomic bomb in secret |
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| offered housing, education, health benefits to returning veterans |
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| belief that gov't can control unemployment and inflation with their fiscal policies and controlling money supply |
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| National goals of economy, plan and report |
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