U. S. History (Ch.) 17-1&2
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- Albert Einstein
- He informed President Roosevelt that the German's had successfully spilt an atom and were working on an atomic bomb
- A. Philip Randolph
- He threated to have a 100 thousand man march on Washington if defense contract companies didn't stop discriminating.
- George Marshall
- He encouraged branches of the military to open up un-combat jobs to woman.
- Henry Kaiser
- He developed the process of pre-fabrication in the production of liberty ships.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- He was a general in the army during WWII. HE was considered the supreme commander of allied forces in Europe.
- Enrico Fermi
- He successfully spilt an atom in Solider Field, in Chicago.
- Erwin Rommel
- He was a General in WWII. he was considered the best General during the war. His nickname was the "Desert Fox"!
- Robert Oppenheimer
- He was in charge of the development of the atomic bomb.
- Rationing System
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To control inflation and guarantee that everyone would get their fair share the goverment used ratioing.
The rationed: gas, food, coffee, etc. - Stalingrad
- The soviets went on the offensive after their victory.
- Japan
- The country that Churchill & Roosevelt decided to defeat first.
- Normandy, France
- America's largest amphibious invasion took place.
- Sonar
- The new invention that helped defeat submarines in the Alantic.
- Manhattan Project
- Was the development of the atomic bomb was a top secert endeavor.