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By the summer of 1942, almost all major industries and some 200,000 companies had converted to____________________ production.
Movement of African Americans form SOuth to North and West
Name of French beaches stormed by American forces
"I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."
Colonel Oveta Culp ____________________ was in command of the Women's Army Corps.
The Allies landed their invasion forces in the area of France called ____________________.
The American program to build an atomic bomb was code-named the __________________________.
Led the team of engineers and scientists building atomic bomb
Certain materials such as spare rubber, tin, aluminum, and steel were so vital to the war effort that thegovernment organized ____________________ drives.
Which group played a vital role in the war effort after almost half of the soldiers had been in internment campslocated in the American Southwest?
Head of Brotherhood of Sleeping Card Porters who pressured FDR to provide jobs for African Americans
By putting the Germans on the defensive, the Soviet forces created a turning point in the war in Europe at theBattle of ____________________.
The use of firebombs filled with ____________________, a kind of jellied gasoline, was very controversialbecause the fires would also kill civilians.
The loss of many ships in the Atlantic convinced the U.S. Navy to set up a ____________________ system, inwhich navy warships would escort groups of cargo ships.
Damaged Liberty ships could often get back to port, make repairs, and return to service because they were____________________ instead of riveted.
How did the successes of the Tuskegee Airmen and other African American units influence U.S. militarypolicy?
In 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to attack the edges of the German empire because they believed that.
As a result of a presidential order allowing the military to declare any part of the United States to be a militaryzone,
Which units, comprised of Japanese Americans, were the most decorated in the history of the United Statesmilitary?
Benjamin O. ____________________, the highest-ranking African American officer in the U.S. Army, wasappointed to brigadier-general by President Roosevelt.