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Hint	Answer
German U-boats were in what was called	Wolfpacks
Allies system designed to protect ships	Convoy
Hitlers living space	lebensraum
Germany air force was known as	Luftwaffe
Stalin's army was also known as	The Red army
Hitler wanted to attack ____ in Russia(January 1943)	Stalingrad
Oil fields Hitler invaded Russia for	Caucasus
General in charge of North African battle, "Blood and guts"	Patton
Allies now need to remove Germans from north Africa to get to	Italy
July 1943 Eisenhower captures ____ resulting in Italy's surrender	Sicily
Mussolini escapes and Hitler puts him in charge of a ____ state in northern Italy	Puppet
Mussolini's mistress who is killed along with himself	Claretta Petacci
large # of bombs over a wide area, including civilians	carpet bombing
main heavy bombing aircraft used	B-17
Another form of bombing that took out infrastructure and military bases	Strategic bombing
People called the large amount of bombings	Firestorms
Who bombed Germany in the day	Americans
Who bombed Germany at night	RAF
japan takes colonies from America, Britain and _____	Dutch
Japan Admiral that planed to destroy American aircrafts at midway	Yamamoto
American Admiral that focused carriers at midway	Chester Nimitz
Decoded Japans message	Code breakers
Japan lost _aircraft carriers(#)	4
Japan lost ___ air crafts(#)	250
Americans first capture of japan soil came at battle of	Guadalcanal
The battle above used this style which was popular in the Vietnam war	Jungle Warfare
American style used to get to japan	island hopping
what was the fraction of working women that were married	3/4
image of wartime working women	Rosie the Riveter
$50 million was spent on	daycare centers
labor leader demanded African Amer. equality	A. Philip Randolph
What letter meant Victory against fascism abroad and Victory against discrimination at home (double_)	V
FDR signs executive order _____ to end discrimination at home and employ African Americans	8802

Hint	Answer
Who increased membership	NAACP
who staged non violent protest against discrimination	CORE
Mex. Farmers: help w. farm labor shortage in South	Bracero Program
Spanish speaking neighborhoods(California)	Barrios
American sailors fight Mexicans over their Un-American looking suits	Zoot suit riots
japans were ____or confined in camps	interned
most decorated military unit in usa history	442nd Regimental Combat Team
war cost	330 billiion
set wages and max prices	Office of Price Administration
Famous quote about conservation	Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without!
Invasion of France was called	Operation Overlord
who was thee supreme commissioner of the invasion(our 34th president)	Eisenhower
Fictional army set up under Patton to get Germany to send top tank division was where	Calais
June 6, 1944: Normandy, France invasion	D-day
code name of the each with most resistance	Omaha
soviets attacking from the east free Latvia, Romania, Slovakia & _____	Hungary
Allied forces freed	Paris, Brussels, Belgium, Netherlands
battle name where Hitler launched counterattack in Belgium creating a bulge	Battle of the Bulge
General that led 1st and 3rd Armies pushing Germans back	Omar bradley
month Soviets capture German capital of Berlin	April
April 30th,___ commits suicide	Hitler
Day that the Germans surrender	May 7, 1945
Victory in Europe Day	V-E Day
president in charge after FDR	truman
battle that freed Philippines	Leyte Gulf:
suicide planes	kamikazes
first atomic bomb was dropped (august 6th)	Hiroshima
flag was raised on	Mt. Surabachi
kill as much enemy as poss. before you get killed.	banzai charges
second atomic bomb was dropped on (august 9th)	Nagasaki
The development of the atomic bomb was also known as the	Manhattan project
When did japan surrender	August15

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