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USH Unit 8 Flashcards

1
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Deprived of the right to vote

A

Disenfranchised

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2
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WAAC’s first director

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Oveta Culp Hobby

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3
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Sr. promoted to Brigadier general, Jr. commanded Tuskegee Airmen

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Benjamin O David Sr. and Jr.

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4
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First black aviators in the US Army Corps

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Tuskegee Airmen

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5
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African American battalion, commended for service during Battle of the Bulge

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761st Tank Battalion

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6
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Government contracts to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce an item plus a guaranteed percentage

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Cost plus contracts

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7
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Women’s (Auxiliary) Army Corps, women served in noncombat positions

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WAAC/WAC

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8
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New industrial region created in southern California

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Sun belt

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9
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Men’s clothing of extreme cut typically consisting of a thigh-length jacket with wide padded shoulders and baggy pants with narrow cuffs

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Zoot suits

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10
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Supreme Court decision to uphold Japanese American internment

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Korematsu vs. United States

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11
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Seven major shipyards along US west coast, granted wartime production contracts

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Kaiser Shipyards

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12
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Protested discrimination in military and industry, organized a march on Washington

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Phillip Randolph

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13
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Designed to ease labor shortages for Mexican farmworkers

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Bracero Program

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14
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No vest, no cuffs, short jacket, narrow lapels

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Victory suit

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15
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Restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to a limited supply

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Rationing

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16
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Garden planted by citizens during war to raise vegetables for home use, leaving more for troops

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Victory Gardens

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17
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Improve public’s understanding of the war, produced propaganda

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Office of War Information (OWI)

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18
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In charge of rationing

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Office of Price Administration and Office of Economic Stability

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19
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Relocated many Japanese Americans to internment camps

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Executive Order 9066 (EO9066)

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20
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Supreme Commander of US Forces in the Pacific

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Douglass McArthur

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21
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US Naval Commander in the Pacific

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Chester A. Nimitz

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22
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Led raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942

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Lt. Col James Doolittle

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23
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An amphibious tractor used to move troops from ship to shore

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Amphtrac

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24
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During WW2, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target

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Kamikaze

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25
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The outer boundary of something

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Periphery

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26
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German commander known as “Desert Fox”

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Erwin Rommel

27
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Commanded by Rommel in North Africa

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Afrika Korps

28
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Supreme Allied commander in Europe

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General Dwight Eisenhower

29
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Slams into German lines at Battle of Bulge, US wins

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General George S. Patton

30
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The overall plan for the invasion and battle at Normandy

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Operation Overlord

31
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An enclosure made of dirt walls covered in shrubbery built to fence in cattle and crops

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Hedgerow

32
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A type of jellied gasoline

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Napalm

33
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Becomes president when FDR dies of a stroke in April 1945

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Harry S. Truman

34
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Air Force general who implemented strategic bombing campaign in Pacific

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General Curtis Lemay

35
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Conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933

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Leo Szilard

36
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In charge of the camp at Los Alamos, New Mexico

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General Leslie Groves

37
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In charge of the think tank to build the atomic bomb

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Robert J. Oppenheimer

38
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A political system header by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and often racism and no tolerance of opposition, implemented by Germany, Japan, and Italy

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Fascism

39
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Written by Hitler, set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that becomes the plan of action for the Nazi Party

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Mein Kampf

40
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Hitler annexes Austria on March 11, 1938

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Anschluss

41
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Czechs gave Hitler the Sudetenland in return for guarantee there would be no further German aggression

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Munich Conference

42
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Giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid all-out conflict

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Appeasement

43
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Agreement between Germany and USSR to avoid war and split Poland, August 1939, invasion of Poland brings Great Britain and France into war

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Non-Aggression Pact

44
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Passed by Congress to keep the US out of war by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms

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Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937

45
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A national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity

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Internationalism

46
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Sale of military supplies to allies, they had to pay cash and transport the supplies on their own ship

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Cash-and-carry

47
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Foremost US isolationist pressure group against American entry into WW2

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America First Committee

48
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Set up a system that would allow the US to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed vital to US defense

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Lend-Lease Act

49
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US and Britain, stated to seek no land gain in the war, respect principles of free trade, and give the right for people to choose their governments

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Atlantic Charter

50
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Day of Pearl Harbor attack

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December 7, 1941

51
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The intent to kill in whole or part a national, ethnic, religious, or racial group

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Genocide

52
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Anti-Semitic laws against Jews, originated by the Nazi Government in 1935

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Nuremberg Laws

53
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Night of Broken Glass, Nazis raided Jewish homes, stores, and killed Jewish people

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Kristallnacht

54
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Carried +900 Jewish refugees in 1939 to escape persecution, denied permission to land in Cuba

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St. Louis Affair

55
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A meeting in which the “final solution” and use of concentration camps were decided in 1942

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Wannsee Conference

56
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A camp where men, women, and children were sent to be executed

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Extermination Camps

57
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Founded Italy’s Fascist movement, became Europe’s first dictatorship

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Benito Mussolini

58
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Lenin’s successor, Soviet dictator in 1926, began massive effort to industrialize the country using the Five-Year Plan

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Joseph Stalin

59
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Leader of Nazi Party, wrote Mein Kampf which highlighted hatred for Jews and other minorities

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Adolf Hitler

60
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Japanese minister of war, threatened to overthrow government when the emperor asked him to withdraw troops from China

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Hideki Tojo

61
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Prime minister, pledged support to France, its ally

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Neville Chamberlain

62
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French general, led the French resistance forces from the French colony of Algiers, refused to recognize French defeat

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Charles de Gaulle

63
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British prime minister, vowed Britain would never surrender

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Winston Churchill

64
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Polish Jew, shot a German diplomat, Nazis used his assassination as pretext to launch Kristallnacht

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Herschel Grynszpan

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