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American Cultures Final 25-32
Edwards cultures final;; chap. 25-32
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History
10th Grade
05/28/2008

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George Marshall
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Army Chief of Staff General who pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) in 1942
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Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
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U.S. army unit created during WWII to enable women to serve in noncombat positions
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A. Philip Randolph
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president & founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, nations most respected African-American labor leader
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Manhattan Project
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U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in WWII
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Office of Price Administration (OPA)
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agency established by Congress to control inflation during WWII
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War Production Board (WPB)
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agency established during WWII to coordinate the production of military supplies by U.S. industries
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rationing
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establishing of fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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American General who commanded Operation Torch
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944;; first day of Operation Overload
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Omar Bradley
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General who on July 25, provided a gap in the German line of defnse that allowed George Patton to reach the Seine River & later liberate Paris
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George Patton
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General who led the Third Army in liberating Paris in August 1944
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Battle of the Bulge
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month-long battle of WWII in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war
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V-E Day
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Victory in Europe Day;; May 8, 1945
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Harry S. Truman
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33rd president of U.S.
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Douglas MacArthur
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General in command of Allied forces in the Phillippines
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Chester Nimitz
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commander of American Naval forces in the Pacific
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Battle of Midway
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WWII battle that took place in early June 1942, Allies decimated the Japanese fleet at Midway then took the offesnvie in the Pacific to move closer to Japan
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kamikaze
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involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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American scientist who led development of the atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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important Japanese military center on which Little Boy was dropped by the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945
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Nagasaki
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city on which the second atomic bomb Fat Man was dropped on August 9, 1945
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Nuremberg Trials
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court preceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes
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GI Bill of Rights
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Servicemen's Readjustment Act, 1944 law that provided financial aid & educational benefits for WWII veterans
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James Farmer
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civil rights leader who, in 1942, founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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interracial group founded to work against segregation in Northern cities
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internment
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confinement or restriction in movement, especialy under wartime conditions
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Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
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organization that pushed the U.S. gov't to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during WWII
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United Nations (UN)
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international peracekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security & economic development
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satellite nations
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countries dominated by the Soviet Union
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containment
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taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries
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iron curtain
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phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1945 to describe an imaginary line that seperated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe
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Cold War
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conflict bewteen the U.S. & Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted the other on the battlefield
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