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Lesson 2,3,4 WW2
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |