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Amer. History Ch.17
All sections voc.
Question | Answer |
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George Marshall | Army Chief of Staff General |
WAAC | Women's Non-Combat Postions |
A. Phillip Randolph | Founder of the Brotherhodd of Sleeping Cars |
Manhattan Project | Atomic Bomb Project |
OPA | freezed prices of food, raised income tax rates |
WPB | Converted commersial factories into war factories |
Rationing | Fixed amount of foods a single person could take |
Dwight D Eisenhower | American General, leaded opertation torch into Axis controlled North Africa |
D-Day | Invasion of Northern France, beaches of Normany, operation overlord |
Omar Bradley | Lead a massive air bombing on German lines |
George Patton | lead forces into german lines. Libertation of France |
Battle of the Bulge | American forces capturing their first German town, Aachen. Germans lost 120,000 men |
V-E Day | Victory of Europe |
Harry S. Truman | Vice President that took over for Roosenvelt after Roosevelt died. |
Douglas MacArthur | Commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific |
Chester Nimitz | Commander of American Navel forces in the Pacific |
Battle of Midway | Turing point in the Pacific front. |
Kamikaze | Suicide Japanese Bomber |
J. Robert Oppenheimer | Helped with the development of the A-Bomb |
Hiroshima | One of two Japanese cities that was blown to rubble by THE ATOMIC BOMB!?!?!?!? |
Nagasaki | Key Japanese military base. Blow away by the A-Bomb |
Nuremberg Trials | Procecuted German Nazis for war crimes |
GI Bill of Rights | provided education and training for Veterans |
CORE | equal right for blacks |
Interment | confinement of 1,444 Japanese-Americans |
JACL | pushed the goverment to compensate those sent to the camps for their lost property |