| A | B |
| George Marshall | Army's Chief of Staff |
| Women's Auxilliary Army Corp (WAAC) | Women volunteers who serve in noncombat positions. |
| A. Phillip Randolph | An African-American labor leader who led a march on Washington to protest discrimination. |
| Manhattan Project | Code name for research on the atomic bomb. |
| Office of Price Administration (OPA) | Froze prices on most goods to fight inflation. |
| War Production Board (WPB) | Decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries. |
| rationing | Fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military. |