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Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Led the Allied invasion of North Africa and became the Supreme Commander of Allied forces.
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What is D-Day?
What is D-Day?Operation Overlord. The invasion of Allied forces of the beaches in Normandy, France
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What is Strategic Bombing?
continuously bombing specific key political and industrial centers
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What is The Executive Order 8802?
It assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money
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What was the Nuremberg Trails?
legal justice taken against the Nazis in court
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Who is George S. Patton?
Allied general known as Blood and Guts
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What is Island hoping?
A strategy followed by the Allies, capturing some Japanese-held islands heading towards Japan.
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Why did the Allies decide to fight a two front war?
Because they saw Germany as the biggest threat and would cause Hitler's defeat
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What is the Bracero Program?
a plan to bring laborers from Mexico to work on American farms
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What does Kristallnacht stand for?
Night of broken glass
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Who is Chester Nimitz?
U.S Navy Commander in the Pacific involved with the Battle of Midway
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What was The Battle of Midway?
the turning point of the war in the Pacific. When Navy code breakers had intercepted Japanese messages with plans of attack.
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What was the Manhattan Project?
The program to develop an atomic bomb by the United States
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What is Internment?
the policy of temporary imprisoning members of a specific group
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What is the War Refugee Board?
worked with the Red Cross save thousands of Eastern European Jews
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Who is A. Philip Randolph?
An African American labor leader
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What is The Battle of the Bulge?
When Germans tried to confuse the Allied forces and turn them on each other by dressing up as U.S soldiers and cutting communication lines.
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What is a Kamikaze Pilot?
Japanese pilots who would deliberately crash their planes into American ships.
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What is the Office of Price Administration (OWI)?
Worked closely with the media to encourage support of the war effort
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What is a concentration camp?
where members of a specially designated groups were confined
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Who J. Robert Oppenheimer?
A physicist who ran the scientific aspect of the atomic bomb
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What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
Germany attempting to invade The Soviet Union, ending up in them surrendering.
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What invention helped the Allies win the fight with German U-boats?
It helped the Allies locate U-boats on the surface at night.
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What is the case of Korematsu v. United States about?
Japanese American went to court to seek their rights. But the court upheld the government's wartime internment policy.
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What two countries came out as the super powers at the end of WW2?
The United States and the Soviet Union