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German U-boats were in what was called
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Wolfpacks
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Allies system designed to protect ships
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Convoy
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Hitlers living space
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lebensraum
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Germany air force was known as
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Luftwaffe
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Stalin's army was also known as
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The Red army
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Hitler wanted to attack ____ in Russia(January 1943)
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Stalingrad
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Oil fields Hitler invaded Russia for
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Caucasus
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General in charge of North African battle, "Blood and guts"
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Patton
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Allies now need to remove Germans from north Africa to get to
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Italy
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July 1943 Eisenhower captures ____ resulting in Italy's surrender
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Sicily
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Mussolini escapes and Hitler puts him in charge of a ____ state in northern Italy
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Puppet
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Mussolini's mistress who is killed along with himself
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Claretta Petacci
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large # of bombs over a wide area, including civilians
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carpet bombing
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main heavy bombing aircraft used
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B-17
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Another form of bombing that took out infrastructure and military bases
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Strategic bombing
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People called the large amount of bombings
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Firestorms
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Who bombed Germany in the day
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Americans
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Who bombed Germany at night
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RAF
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japan takes colonies from America, Britain and _____
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Dutch
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Japan Admiral that planed to destroy American aircrafts at midway
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Yamamoto
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American Admiral that focused carriers at midway
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Chester Nimitz
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Decoded Japans message
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Code breakers
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Japan lost _aircraft carriers(#)
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4
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Japan lost ___ air crafts(#)
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250
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Americans first capture of japan soil came at battle of
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Guadalcanal
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The battle above used this style which was popular in the Vietnam war
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Jungle Warfare
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American style used to get to japan
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island hopping
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what was the fraction of working women that were married
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3/4
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image of wartime working
women
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Rosie the Riveter
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$50 million was spent on
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daycare centers
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labor leader demanded African Amer. equality
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A. Philip Randolph
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What letter meant Victory against fascism abroad and
Victory against discrimination at home (double_)
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V
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FDR signs executive order _____ to end discrimination at home and employ African Americans
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8802
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Who increased membership
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NAACP
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who staged non violent
protest against discrimination
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CORE
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Mex. Farmers: help w. farm labor shortage in
South
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Bracero Program
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Spanish speaking neighborhoods(California)
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Barrios
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American sailors fight Mexicans over their Un-American looking suits
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Zoot suit riots
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japans were ____or confined in camps
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interned
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most decorated military unit in usa history
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442nd Regimental Combat Team
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war cost
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330 billiion
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set wages and max prices
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Office of Price Administration
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Famous quote about conservation
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without!
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Invasion of France was called
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Operation Overlord
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who was thee supreme commissioner of the invasion(our 34th president)
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Eisenhower
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Fictional army set up under Patton to get Germany to send top tank division was where
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Calais
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June 6, 1944: Normandy, France invasion
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D-day
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code name of the each with most resistance
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Omaha
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soviets attacking from the east free Latvia, Romania, Slovakia &
_____
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Hungary
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Allied forces freed
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Paris, Brussels, Belgium, Netherlands
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battle name where Hitler launched counterattack in Belgium creating a bulge
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Battle of the Bulge
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General that led 1st and 3rd Armies pushing Germans back
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Omar bradley
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month Soviets capture German capital of
Berlin
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April
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April 30th,___ commits suicide
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Hitler
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Day that the Germans surrender
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May 7, 1945
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Victory in Europe Day
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V-E Day
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president in charge after FDR
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truman
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battle that freed Philippines
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Leyte Gulf:
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suicide planes
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kamikazes
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first atomic bomb was dropped (august 6th)
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Hiroshima
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flag was raised on
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Mt. Surabachi
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kill as much enemy as poss.
before you get killed.
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banzai charges
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second atomic bomb was dropped on (august 9th)
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Nagasaki
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The development of the atomic bomb was also known as the
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Manhattan project
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When did japan surrender
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August15
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