Chapter 17 Flashcards
This was created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation
Office of Price Administration
This expanded the draft and eventually mustered 10 million soldiers
Selective service system
This method was used to dress the use of scarce and essential wartime goods
Rationing
The law establishing this gave its members official status and salary, and a year later, granted the, full US army benefits
Women’s auxiliary corps
This assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime production and distributing raw madrigals to key industries
War productions board
This was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of wonder drugs
Office of scientific research and development
Roosevelt’s Vice President
Harry Truman
The day that marked the end of war in Europe
V-E Day
This code was for the invasion of axis- controlled North Africa
Operation Torch
convoys, sonar and radar helped the allies to win this battle
Battle of the Atlantic
this general led the American troops that liberated paris from german occupation
George Patton
The initial success of this German offensive battle was due mainly to the allies mean caught off guard
Battle of the Bulge
This death camp was first liberated by the allies
Majdenek
This general commanded operation overload, the allied invasion of Nazi- controlled Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This Army Chief of Staff pushed for the formation of a Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.
George Marshall
This labor leader strongly encouraged President Roosevelt to issue an execultive order discouraging discrimination in the workplace.
A. Phillip Randolph
This was the code name for the atomic bomb program
Manhattan Project
Who were the two global fronts
Europe and the Pacific
What Sergeant believed that there was more to basic training in teaching a recruit how to stand attention, March in step, handle a rifle, and follow orders
Deb myers
What did other ethnicities think was their war to fight
To fight for their own freedom
What ethnicity suffered a fifth of Los Angeles is wartime casualties
Mexican-Americans
What was the last car to be rolled off the automakers assembly line
A gray sedan
What did factories quickly have to convert to
War production
This man had built seven massive new shipyards that turned out liberty ships, takers, troop transport, and baby aircraft carriers at an astonishing rate
Henry J Kaiser
