World War II 1941-1945
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| Dwight Eisenhower | Known as Ike. He commanded the Allied invasion of North Africa.
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| George S. Patton Jr. | An innovative tank commander.
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| Unconditional Surrender | Giving up completely without any concessions.
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| Saturation Bombing | Inflict maximum damage.
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| Strategic Bombing | Destroyed Germany's capacity to make war.
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| Tuskegee Airmen | An African American fighter squadron.
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| Chester Nimitz | Commander of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific knew the Japanese plan.
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| Battle of Midway | The turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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| A. Philip Randolph | Assorted for African Americans that they wouldn't accept second-class citizenship.
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| Executive Order 8802 | Jobs funded with gov't money.
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| Bracero Program | Brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms.
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| Internment | Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group.
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| Korematsu v. U.S. | Supreme Court upheld the gov't wartime internment policy.
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| 44nd Regimental Combat Team | Fought the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history.
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| Rationing | Another form of economic control.
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| Office of War Information | Worked with the media to support the war effort.
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| D-Day | The Allies hit Germany in force.
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| Battle of the Bulge | A counterattack.
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| Harry S. Truman | He would be the new president.
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| Island hopping | Captured Japanese held islands and ignoring others in a steady path toward Japan.
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| Kamikaze | Pilots crashed their planes into American ships.
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| Albert Einstein | A famous scientist.
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| Manhattan Project | Cost billion dollars and employed tons of people.
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| J. Robert Oppenheimer | A phyicist.
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| Holocaust | The Nazis tried to kill all Jews under their control.
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| Anti-Semitism | Jews were blamed for all ills in Germany.
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| Nuremberg Laws | Named the city that served as a spiritual center of Natism.
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| Kristallnacht | The "Night of the Broken Glass."
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| Genocide | A type of group.
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| Concentraion Camps | Members were designated groups that were confined.
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| Death Camps | Prisoners were killed systematically.
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| War Refugee Board | Worked in Red Cross to save Eastern European Jews.
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| Yalta Conference | The Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections.
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| Super Power | Defeated the Axis Powers.
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| GATT | A 1948 treaty to expand world trade by reducing tariffs.
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| United Nations | Organization that, many hoped, would succeed where the League of Nations had forced.
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | The United Nations issued.
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| Geneva Convention | International agreement governing the humanic treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war.
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| Nuremburg Trials | The Allies prosecuted Nazis of war crime.
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