World War 2
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- War Production Board
- created by FDR to direct conversion of existing factories to wartime production and supervised the building of the new plants
- Office of War Mobilization
- coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort; coordinated the production of consumer goods
- Selective Training and Service Act
- provided for the first peacetime draft in US history; required all men ages 21 to 35 to register
- Douglas MacArthur
- commanded Filipino troops; eventually given command of all US troops in the Pacific; ordered troops to evacuate the city and retreat to the Bataan Peninsula
- Bataan Death March
- Japanese troops forced the survivors in Bataan to march to a prison camp; treated brutally
- Chester Nimitz
- comander of the US pacific fleet; agressive commander
- Battle of Coral Sea
- allied victory;tactical and strategic victory, US win, Only airplanes
- Battle of Midway
- naval battle in the pacific; seeking to crush the US pacific fleet; between the navies of hte US and Japan; US victory
- Erwin Rommel
- "Desert Fox", very skillful military leader
- Bernard Montgomery
- british leader who helped turn the corner at the battle of el alamein
- Office of War Information
- controlled the flow of war news at home
- Rosie the Riveter
- the symbol of patriotic female defense workers
- A Philip Randolph
- African American leader who protested against discrimination of black workers
- Fair Emplyment Practices Committee
- enforced an order that forbade racial discrimination in defense plants and government offices
- Carlos Castenada
- served as an assistant to the chair of the FEPC
- braceros
- railroad workers who came from the north to work in the Southwest during the war
- zoot-suit riots
- US Sailors entered a city attacking the zoot-suit people
- internment
- forced relocation and imprisonment
- Norman Mineta
- nisei from who was imprisoned; Japanese American
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- commanded the invasion force of the British and US soldiers
- George Patton
- guided US forces in the invasion of Italy
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Allies won; battle in the sea in the Atlantic
- sonar
- equitpment that uses waves to detect things underwater
- George C. Marshall
- Allied strategist who led the planning of the US invading German-occupied France
- D-Day
- Operation Overload; June 6, 1944
- Holocaust
- Nazis Germany's system of killing European Jews
- genocide
- deliberate annihilation of an entire group of people
- Battle of the Bulge
- Germans pushed westward to create a bulge in the Allied lines, but the Allies pushed the Germans back
- Yalta Conference
- FDR, Churchill, and Stalin pledged to declare war on Japan; Germany would be divided and occupied after the war for peace
- island hopping
- troops would attack and seize only certain strategic Japanese-held islands rather than trying to recaptured them all
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- we were there because of the Spanish American war; in the Phillipines
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- 6 weeks long; US tried to take Mt. Suribachi
- Battle of Okinawa
- bloodiest of the Pacific War; many caves; many Japanese died; kamikazis used
- Harry Truman
- became president once FDR died
- Manhattan Project
- effort group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb
- Enola Gay
- dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima