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Lesson 2,3,4 WW2
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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War Production Board | oversees conversion of factories to war production. |
A. Philip Randolph | African American Labor Leader (protested unfair treatment of African Americans) |
Tuskegee Airmen | African American fighter pilots. |
Benjamin O.Davis Jr. | first African American general in the US Airforce. |
Braceros | Mexican American agricultural workers. |
zoot-suit riots | white mobs attacked Mexican Americans. |
internment | forced into relocation camps. |
Battle of El Alamein | British fighters stop the Afrika Korps here. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | American General |
Battle of Stalingrad | German commander surrenders to Soviet Troops here. |
D-Day | June 6, 1944 (designated day) American, British and Canadian troops invade the beaches of Normandy, France. |
Douglas MacArthur | American general in command in the pacific against the Japanese. |
Bataan Death March | American and Filipinos prisoners of war that were marched 63 miles by the Japanese. |
kamikaze | Japanese pilots that purposely crashed their planes into enemy targets. |
Chester Nimitz | Admiral that led the U.S. Pacific Fleet |
island hopping | allied forces took only the strategically important island. |
Battle of Leyte Gulf | largest naval battle in history |