| A | B |
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| chief of staff from 1939 to 1945, building and directing the largest army in history; post World War 2, developed the Marshall Plan for war torn Europe | George Marshall |
| the plan to develop an atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| regulate the production of materials and fuel during;converted and expanded peacetime industries to meet war needs, allocated scarce materials vital to war production, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production | War Production Board (WPB) |
| June 6,1944; Invasion of Normandy, France | D-Day |
| Commanded American forces in North Africa, & Sicily; innovative Tank Commander | George Patton |
| an attack by the German Army through the Ardennes Forest region of Belgium | Battle of the Bulge |
| Victory in Europe;May 8,1945 Germany Surrenders | V-E day |
| elected Senator for Missouri, latter chosen to become Vice-President, then President after Roosevelt's death | Harry S. Truman |
| Admiral; Commander U.S. Navy Pacific 1942-1945 | Chester Nimitz |
| Turning point in WW2 in the Pacific, ending Japanese advance loosing 4 aircraft carriers | Battle of Midway |
| Japanese pilots that deliberately crashed their planes into American ships | Kamikaze |
| Lead scientist on the Manhattan Project; physicist; ran scientific aspect of the project from Los Alamos | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| allies are going to prosecute Nazis for war crimes | Nuremberg Trials |
| a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans;low-cost mortgages, loans to start a business or farm, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education | G.I. Bill of Rights |
| Victory over Japan; September 2,1945 | V-J Day |
| African American fighter squadron; escorted bombers from enemy fighters | Tuskegee Airmen |
| Measure to ensure fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce thses requirements | Executive Order 8802 |
| famous scientist; wrote a letter to Roosevelt urging him to proceed with atomic development | Albert Einstein |
| a unit of Japanese Americans that fought in the Italian campaign and became one of the most decorated military units in U.S. History | 442nd Regimental combat team |
| allowed the allied powers to meet to discuss final strategy and crucial questions concerning post war Germany | Yalta Conference |
| an organization that, many hoped, would succeed where the League of Nations had failed; U.S. was leader in trying to get other nations to accept | United Nations |
| international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war | Geneva Convention |
| order authorized the Secretary of War and U.S. armed forces commanders to declare areas of the United States as military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded; led to internment | Executive Order 9066 |
