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| George Marshall | US Army Chief of Staff in WWII |
| Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) | allowed women to serve in noncombat jobs n the army |
| A. Phillip Randolph | founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
| Manhattan Project | federal project to develop the Atomic Bomb |
| Office of Price Administration (OPA) | froze prices on most goods |
| War Production Board (WPB) | decided which companies would switch from peacetime to wartime production, allocated raw materials for war production |
| rationing | establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Supreme Allied Commander in Europe |
| D-Day | code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy; June 6, 1944 |
| Omar Bradley | Commander of D-Day operations |
| George Patton | American general famous for fast moving tank warfare |
| Battle of the Bulge | final German counter-attack in the West; December 1944 |
| V-E Day | May 8, 1945 (Victory in Europe Day) |
| Harry S. Truman | became president upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt |
| Douglas MacArthur | American commander in the Pacific |
| Chester Nimitz | American naval commander in the Pacific |
| Battle of Midway | turning point of the Pacific War (the most important part of the Japanese navy was destroyed) |
| kamikaze | suicide-planes used by the Japanese against the American navy |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | scientist who led the team in charge of development of the atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima | first Japanese city destroyed by the atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | second Japanese city destroyed by the atomic bomb |
| fat man | name of the atomic bomb that destroyed Nagasaki |
| little boy | the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima |
| Enola Gay | B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb |
| Nuremburg trials | war crimes trials of Hitler's most trusted officials |
| GI Bill of Rights | provided education and training for veterans |
| James Farmer | founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | organization founded to confront urban segregation in the North |
| internment camps | confinement camps that held Japanese Americans during WWII |
| Japanese American Citizens League | organization that sought compensation for the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII |
