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| George Marshall | Army chief of staff during WWII |
| Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) | Women volunteers who served in non-combat positions |
| A. Philip Randolph | Important African-American labor union |
| Manhattan Project | Secret research project that resulted in the Atomic Bomb |
| Office of Price Administration (OPA) | Agency of the federal gov't that fought inflation |
| War Production Board (WPB) | Gov't agency that decided the manufacture & distribution of war materials |
| rationing | Restricting the amount of food, etc. that people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American general who became president |
| D-Day | Allied invation to liberate Europe |
| Omar Bradley | American general |
| George Patton | American general known for tank warfare |
| Battle of the Bulge | German counteroffensive in December 1944 |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945 |
| Harry S. Truman | 33rd president of the US |
| Douglas MacArthur | American commander in the Philippines |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific |
| Battle of Midway | American victory/turning point of the Pacific War |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide flight |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Scientist who led the Manhattan Project |
| Hiroshima | Site of the 1st atomic-bomb drop |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city that was the sit eof the 2nd atomic-bomg drop |
| Nuremberg Trials | Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes |
| GI Bill of Rights | Law to help servicemen readjust to civilian life |
| James Farmer | Founded the Congress of Racial Equality |
| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | Interracial organization formed to fight discrimination |
| internment | Confinement under guard, especially during wartime |
| Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) | Civil rights group formed by Japanese Americans |
