WAAC: women’s auxiliary army corps
George Marshall: Army chief for staff general
A. Philip Randolph: president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car posters, highly respected leader
Manhattan Project: U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in WWII
OPA: office of Price Administration
WPB: war production board
Rationing: a restriction of people’s rights to by unlimited amounts of particular good and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the military
Dwight D. Eisenhower: American general, he commanded the invasion on Axis-controlled North America
D-Day: a name given to June 6, 1944; the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland in WWII
Omar Bradley: American army general who launched massive air and land attack against enemy at St. Louis
George Paton: American general
Battle of the Bulge: a moth-long battle of WWII, in which the allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war
V.E. Day: a name given to May 8, 1945, “Victory in Europe Day” on which General Eisenhower’s acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of WWII in Europe
Harry S. Truman: Vice President for President Franklin Roosevelt, who then became the 33rd president when Roosevelt died in office
Tuskegee Airmen: plots of all black 99th pursuit squadron, fought in Italy
Douglas MacArthur: Ally general who commanded the Philippines islands in Dec. 1941
Chester Nimitz: the commander of the American naval forces in the Pacific
Battle of Midway: battle in which the Japanese were caught off guard and lost 54 aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes. Was the turning point in the Pacific War
Kamikaze: involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target (suicide-plane)
Iwo Jima: most heavily guarded island, Americans won it over to use to serve as a base from which heavily loaded bombers could reach Japan
J. Robert Oppenheimer: led research on the development of the atomic bomb, he was an American scientist
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the two cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs during WWII
Nuremberg Trials: the court proceeding held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes
James Farmer: civil rights leader who founded the “CORE”
CORE: The Congress of Racial Equality, an interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against racism in N. cities
GI Bill of Rights: a name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for WWII veterans
Internment: confinement or a restriction in movement, especially under wartime conditions
JACL: The Japanese American Citizens League, an organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate the Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during WWII
Klor De Alva, Krieger, Wilson, and Woloch. "Unit 5." The Americans. By Danzer. McDougal Littell. Print.
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