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Chapter 21 WWII- Bastian
world war II
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10th Grade
03/28/2012

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Day of Pearl Harbor
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December 7th, 1941
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Secretary of War
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Henry Stimson
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Cost-Plus contracts
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where the government agreed to pay a company whatever it costs to make a product and percentage of profit
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Selective Service and Training Act of 1940
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first peacetime draft in history
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Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
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highest ranking african american general
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Tuskegee Airman
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African american pilots that won battle of anzio
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32nd fighter group
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flew 200 missions and didnt lose a single member
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Rosie the Riveter
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the symbol of the campaign to hire women in the war industries
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A. Philip Randolph
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head of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters proposed on washington that factories would hire women but not african americans
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Executive order 8802
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FDR; created no discrimination based on race, creed, color or national origin
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Bracero Program
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it was labors who helped harvest 200,000 crops, it helped harvest in the south east, it lasted 22 years
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Sunbelt
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new industrial region, in southern california and the deep south. it grew manufacturing and urbanization
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Belle Isle Riots
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attacks on young white and african americans. they were at belle isle to cool off and started fighting
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Zoot Suit Riots
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mexican-americans were attacked because they heard that the mexican soldiers were sailors
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Japanese American Internment Camps
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they were japanese/american concentration camps created by feared americans that the japanese americans in america were stil loyal to their country and would attack. the supreme court ruled that relocation was constitutional because it was based not on race but on military urgency forced deportation
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scrap drives
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spare rubber, aluminum, tin, sleet
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govt helped finance 300 billion in spending of wwII
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extra taxes, bonds, raising taxes
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Axis Powers
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germany, italy, japan. us refuses to sell scrap iron to japanese, eventually all items with military uses
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Emp. Hironito
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fdr appeals to emp. of japan on december 6th 1941 to halt all acs of aggression, told we would hear reply the next day. we got bombed.
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Dolittle Raid
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us retaliate for pearl harbor
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D-Day
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mormady invasion. 2 year plan. led by dwight D eisenhower.
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Battle of the Bulge
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fails and allies cross rhine river.
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Harry S Truman
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new us president after FDR
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Ve day
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victory in europe
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Battle of Coral Sea
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defensive battle. japanese plans decoded. americans win. holds off invasion of australia.
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Battle of Midway
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brings end to threat faced by hawaii
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Island hopping
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strategy to capture key islands
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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largest naval battle in history, kamikaze attacks.
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Iwo Jima
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important refueling post. us wins
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Atomic bomb
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manhattan project, leo szilard drafted letter to einstein. truman warns. then bombs hiroshima. then bombs nagasaki. war over
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ussr lost most lives. front of center.
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afs;ldfj
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Nuremberg Trials
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prosecutions of nazi leaders. lower ranking officials
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Germany airforce
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luftwaffe
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Munich Conference
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dealing with hitlers demands for sudetenland. gave over to hitler. winston churchill denies. appeasment fails. hitler has further demands.
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ww2 begins
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germany invades poland, blitzkreig. fall of france. winston churchill is new prime minister.
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