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US His 11

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Dropping large amount of bombs to inflict maximum damage   Saturation bombing  
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US General Tank commander in North Africa know as Blood and Guts   George S. Patton, Jr.  
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Dropping bombs that target key political and industrial centers   Strategic bombing  
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Giving up completely without any concession   Unconditional surrender  
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Led the Allied invasion of North Africa   Dwight Elsenhower  
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US naval commander   Chester Nimitz  
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Why did the Allies pursue a "Europe First" strategy?   Germany, which is in Europe, posed a more serious threat than Japan.  
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Hitler's plans of dominating Europe ended with Germany's defeat at this battle.   Stalingrad  
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Results of the Battle of Midway.   Japan never again threatened Pacific domination  
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Limiting the amount of certain goods civilians can buy   Rationing  
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Ensured fair hiring practices in jobs funded with government money   Executive Order 8802  
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Worked with the media to encourage support for the war effort   OWI-Office of War Information  
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Policy of temporary imprisionment of a specific group   Internment  
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Plan to bring laborers from Mexico to work on American farms   Bracero program  
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African American labor leader- worked to eliminate discrimination in the United States   A. Philip Randolph  
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How did wartime pressure created a break from the past for women?   They took nontraditional jobs, such as building planes and bombs  
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What did African Americans do during WWII to fight segregation?   Joined organizations dedicated to fight segregation  
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This affected civil liberties in the United States by designating war zones from which anyone could be removed.   Executive Order 9066  
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Who created the Office of Price Administration?   Franklin D. Roosevelt  
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Who become Pres. when Franklin D. Roosevelt died?   Harry S. Truman  
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Program to develop atomic bomb   Manhattan Project  
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Signed a letter to Pres. Roosevelt explaining the importance of the development of the atomic bomb   Albert Einstein  
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The Allied invasion of Normandy   D-Day  
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Strategy used by Allied forces in the Pacific to get in striking distance to Japan   Island hopping  
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Germany's attempt to drive a wedge between American and British forces.   Battle of the Bulge  
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One important effect of the Battle of the Bulge   Germany used up its reserves and demoralized its troops in the battle  
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Pres. Truman   Made decision to use atomic bomb  
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Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control   Holocaust  
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German law that denied citizenship to Jews   Nuremberg Laws  
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'Night of Broken Glass'-Nazi's organized attack on Jewish businesses and homes   Kristallnacht  
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Used to imprison undesirable members of society   Concentration camp  
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US gov. agency worked with Red Cross to save thousands of Eastern European Jews   War Refugee Board  
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How were some Jews prevented from leaving Germany?   Countries would not let them enter their borders during the Great Depression  
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How did Nazi camp administrators identify people from different groups in the concentration camps?   Each group was assigned and wore different colored insignia  
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Why did the United States not respond to the Holocaust at the beginning of the war?   People underestimated Hitler's plan  
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Written with the guidance of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt   Universal Declaration of Human Rights  
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Established international law for the humanitarian treatment of prisoners of war   Geneva Convention  
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Dominant countries of WWII   Superpowers  
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Agreement to expand world trade by reducing tariffs   GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade  
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Legal action taken against Nazis   Nuremberg trials  
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Provided food and aid to much of the world   United Nations  
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How did Japan change polically after WWII?   It drew up a new democratic constitution and initiated changes.  
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Strongest nations after WWII   Soviet Union and United States  
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Purpose of United Nations   To encourage cooperation of nations  
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During and following WWII, Aftican Americans continued to work to gain this...   Civil Rights  
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Annihilation of a racila, political or cultural group   Genocide  
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African American squadron that took part in the 1942 German bombing of strategic locations   Tuskegee Airmen  
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Group of Japanese Americans who were the most decorated military unit in US History   442nd Regimental Combat Team  
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Big Three meeting Feb. 1945 to discuss post war plans   Yalta Conference  
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General Dwight Eisenhower   Ike  
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Turning point of WWII in Pacific   Midway  
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A barbarous act that influenced the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights   The Holocaust  
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Which group did Nazis consider superior?   Aryans  
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Name of meeting where idea was proposed by Reinhard Heydrich to exterminate about 11,000,000 Jews   Wannsee Conference  
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German General in North Africa-'Desert Fox'   Erwin Rommel  
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Commander of Japanese forces in the Pacific   Admiral Yamamoto  
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Commander of US Navy in the Pacific   Admiral Chester Nimitz  
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Location of first face-to-face meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill with Stalin   Teheran, Iran  
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Names for the invasion of Normandy   Operation Overlord  
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June 6, 1944   D-Day, invasion of Normandy, France  
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Victory in Europe   VE-Day  
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Victory in Japan   VJ-Day  
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Japanese suicide bomber   Kamikaze  
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Atomic bomb dropped there   Hiroshima, Nagasaki  
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Last Japanese island taken that put US in bombing distance of Japan   Okinawa  
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Japanese officially surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945 here.   USS Missouri  
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Leaders of Mahattan Project   General Leslie Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer  
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Navajo Indians who used their language to send critical messages from island to island   Code Talkers  
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Japanese Prime Minister during WWII   General Hideki Tojo  
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Prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people   Anti-semitism  
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Lebensraum   Living space, additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.  
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Manchuria   Country Japan invaded to have access to natural resource  
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Luftwaffe   German airforce  
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Blitzkrieg   German battle tactic, hit the enemy hard and fast and leave  
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Poland   Country Hitler invaded, started WWII  
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Attu   Western most island in the Aletians off the coast of Alaska, occupied by Japanese, only land battle fought on incorporated territory of United States  
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Iowa Jima   Island held by Japanese that American forced overtook, island was laced with tunnels dug by Japanese  
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Mt. Surbachi   On Iowa Jima, mountain full of tunnels, Japanese stronghold  
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Anzio   Allied forces landing near this town in Italy which met with little resistance because German commanders were told there would be no allied force invasions during the months of Jan. and Feb. Germans unprepared  
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George Marshall   General and close advisor to Pres. Roosevelt, in charge of massive expansion of Army and drawingof war plans,appointed General Eisenhower to command the Pacific Theatre  
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Leo Szallard   One of the scientists that developed the Atomic Bomb  
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Kraus Fuchs   Scientist on Atomic bomb project and an secret agent for Russia, shared atomic bomb secrets with Russia  
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Trinity   Code name for the first detonation of a nuclear bomb in the desert of New Mexico  
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USS Missouri   United States battle ship anchored in Tokyo Bay where Japanese officially surrendered  
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Douglas Mac Arthur   Headed military occupation of Japan after WWII, supervised the writing of a new constitution for Japan  
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Los Alamos, New Mexico   Tested Atomic bomb  
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Wendover, UT   training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  
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Audie Murphy   Most decorated American in WWII,  
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Tuskegee Airmen   Red tails, all black unit that flew fighter planes, job protect bombers on bombing runs  
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Convoy   Group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by war ships  
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Europe First   Europe was a more serious threat than Japan  
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Hitlers mistake   Staying to long at Stalingrad, got caught by winter, military not prepared to fight in cold, also fighting on one front as Russians surrounded them  
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Battle of Coral Sea   Fought entirely by air, renewed confidence of United States  
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