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Chapter 21 WW2: Behind the Lines
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History
10th Grade
01/24/2014

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American Advantages

 

What were the 3 biggest American advantages?

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a. They had a good geographic advantage.

 

b. They had alot of resources.

 

c. They had a good infrastructure.

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Battle of the coral sea.
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Japanese defeat, battle fought enitrely by aircraft from aircraft carriers.
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Chester Nimitz
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He was the US admiral of the pacific fleet.
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Manhatten project
Definition
Secret development project of the Atom bomb.
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Harry Truman
Definition
President after Roosevelt. Made the decision to drop the atom bomb.
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Victory Gardens.
Definition
Grew more food to have more to send to soldiers.
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D-day
Definition
US invasion of northern France.
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Japanese relocation.
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Relocation of all US citizens of Japanese heritage to camps because the US didn't trust them.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Supreme allied commander. D-day commander.
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Guadalcanal
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Island-Hopping, marines secure beach.
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Iwo Jima
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The largest volcano island of japan.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Atomic bombs - Manhatten testsites, 70,000 Hiroshima died, 50,000 Nagasaki died.
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Douglas MacArthur
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US general who served as chief of staff and commanded Aliied forces in the south pacific during WWII.
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Philip Randolph
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Leader of the African - amercian civil rights movement.
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Major battle between Germany and it's allies vs the Soviet Union for control of stalingrad.
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