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| Chester Nimitz | admiral in charge of capturing Japanese-held islands in the central Pacific |
| George Marshall | army chief of staff who advised Roosevelt to follow the "Europe first" strategy |
| A. Philip Randolph | union leader whose efforts ended racial discrimination in defense-related industries |
| Rosie the Rivitor | propaganda that supported women's homefront support |
| Harry S. Truman | president after Franklin Roosevelt who decided to use the A-Bombwh |
| Oveta Culp Hobby | director of the WACs in World War II |
| George Patton | general who inspired American troops defeated in North Africa |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | supreme commander of the Allied forces in Western Europe |
| Hideki Tojo | prime minister of Japan in 1941 |
| Douglas MacArthur | American commander in the Pacific |
| Detroit | wartime defense production capital |
| Battle of the Bulge | the last major German offensive on the Western Front |
| Western Front | German war with France, Great Britain, etc |
| Eastern Front | German war with the Soviet Union (USSR) |
| Stalingrad | Soviet troops defeated Hitler's armies in this city |
| D-Day | was on June 6, 1944 |
| Operation Torch | the Allied assault in North Africa |
| Operation Overlord | Allied invasion of Normandy (aka D-Day) |
| island-hopping | tactic of assault in the Pacific |
| Battan Death March | largest surrender of American troops which occurred in the Philippines |
| Midway | strategic island near Hawaii where US Navy defeated large Japanese naval force |
| Tripartite Pact | agreement signed by Japan, Germany, and Italy (Axis Powers) |
| Manhattan Project | American project to build the Atomic Bomb |
| Internment camps | prison camps built within the US to hold Japanese-Americans following Pearl Harbor |
| Rationing | Government control of scarce goods needed for war effort (gas, nylon, tires, etc.) |
| Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese |
| "Europe first" strategy | the focus of US military because we feared German tehnology and power |
| Battle of Midway | battle which limited Japan's ability to wage an offensive war |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | located on one of the Solomon Islands captured by Americans after this six-month battle |
| Saipan | island in the Marianas that was a costly American victory; many Japanese committed suicide |
| Leyte Gulf | site of General MacArthur's victory in the Philippines |
| Hiroshima | first Japanese city destroyed by US atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | Second Japanese city destroyed by US atomic bomb |
| Tokyo | capital of Japan, target of Doolittle raids |
| Jimmy Doolittle | US pilot who led early air raids over Japan |
| Battle of Coral Sea | first battle to take place from aircraft carriers |
| Final Solution | Hitler's plan to kill all Jews |
| Yalta Conference | Roosevelt's last conference, Stalin promised to enter the war in the Pacific three months after Germany's suffender |
| Casablanca | Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill descided to demand unconditional surrender of Axis leaders |
| Red Army | Soviet army's knick-name |
| 1941 | US declared war after Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | US troops invaded North Africa |
| 1944 | Allied troops invaded Normandy Peninsula |
| May 8, 1945 | Victory over Europe |
| August 6, 1945 | US dropped first Atomic Bomb |
| Enola Gay | US plane that dropped the first Atomic Bomb |
| Tinian Islands | home base of the Enola Gay |
| Okinawa | last major battle with Japan (Mrs. Hanegan's father faught here) |
