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| 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. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of the Allied Forces in Africa and Europe. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, the first day of the invasion of Europe on the coast of France. |
| Omar Bradley | General who unleashed a massive air and land bombardment at St. Lo to provide a gap in the German line. |
| Geroge Patton | General of the Third Army who broke out of northern France and captured Paris. |
| Battle of the Buldge | A battle resulting in Germany being pushed backfrom a bulge they created in American lines. |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945. |
| Harry S. Truman | President who oversaw the victory in Europe and the Pacific. |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of the Allied Forces on the islands of the Philippines.. |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of the naval forces in the Pacific. |
| Battle of Midway | American victory that is the turning point in the war. |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide-plane attacks. |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Director of research for the development of the atomic bomb. |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city that was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. |
| Nagasaki | Second Japanese city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb. |
| Nuremberg trials | Trials of German leaders for crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, and war crimes. |
| GI Bill of Rights | Provided education and training for veterans paid for by the federal government. |
| James Farmer | Civil rights leader who founded CORE to fight segregation in the North. |
| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | Confronts segregation in the North using tactics like sit-ins. |
| internment | Confinement of Japanese-Americans during the war. |
| Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) | Pushed the government for compensation for lost property to those sent to internment camps. |
