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| Audie Murphy | most decorated US soldier in World War II |
| Oveta Culp Hobby | commanded the WAC and helped to gather women volunteers for the war efforts during World War II |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President of the United States at the beginning of World War II |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Commander of all Allied forces in Europe during World War II. Born in Dennison, TX |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of the US Pacific Fleet. Born in Fredericksburg, TX |
| Lend-Lease Act | program through which the United States lent military supplies to Allies while maintaining their neutrality at the beginning of World War II |
| Allies | nations including England, France, China, and Russia that were fighting against the Axis powers during World War II |
| Holocaust | the mass murder of over 6 million Jews by the Nazi government in Germany during the 1930s and early 1940s |
| Dictator | a leader who controls an area through absolute power |
| Axis Powers | Group formed by Germany, Japan, and Italy to work together and not attack each other during World War II |
| GI Bill | law passed in June 1944 that provided money to help pay for the education of veterans returning from service in World War II |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan lauches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, HI, bringin the US into World War II |
| Communism | economic system in which property is owned by the government instead of the people |
| Cold War | The US lead fight against the spread of communism by the Soviet Union after World War II |
| Why did many rural Texans move to urban cities during and after World War II? | to get jobs in factories and other business that grew because of the war effort |
| What event occurred on June 6, 1944? | D-Day invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces |
| Why did Americans create a series of underground pipelines to move oil during World War II | German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico were attacking Oil Tankers |
| Why did the United States have to create synthetic rubber? | During World War II, Japan blocked American supplies of natural rubber from Asia. |
| Why did the United States have to build tin smelters in the U.S? | Access to tin in Asia was cut off by Japanese forces |
| What is the name of the period of rapid population growth due to a high birthrate in the United States after the war? | the Baby Boom |
| In what Supreme Court case did the court rule that all-white primaries in Texas were illegal? | Smith vs. Allright |
| In what Supreme Court case did the court rule that an African-American man had been denied acces to UT Law School only because of his race and order the school to admit him? | Sweatt vs. Painter |
| In what ways did people on the homefront help the war effort? | rationing food, planting victory gardens, collecting scrap iron, contributin to the Red Cross and other organizations, conducting blackouts at night |
| Where did the nazi governmetn sned millions of Jews during the Holocaust? | Concentration Camps |
| In what year did World War II finally end? | 1945 |
| the drop of price in cotton after World War I was due to ____________________ | overproduction |
| failing banks, unemployment and people going into debt, all describe the era known as the _________________________. | Great Depression |
| the geogrpahic area that suffered through a sever drought on the Southern Plains was know as the _____________________. | Dust Bowl |
| the economic term that describes how the unit cost to produce goods decreases as the size of the production facility increases. | Economies of Scale |
| the relationship between the quanity of a product and its price | law of supply and demand |
| shares of ownership in a corporation. | stock |
| President of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression | Herbert Hoover |
