| A | B |
|---|
| Rosie the Riveter | the symbol for women in WWII homefront |
| Lend-Lease Act | gave Britain needed goods and ended U. S. neutrality |
| rationing | cutting suppy of consumer goods available |
| Nisei | American-born Japanese soldiers |
| Women on the homefront | did jobs that had been regarded as for men only |
| Unions during WWII | increased in size and power during WWII |
| White-collar workers on the homefront | benefitted from the growth in govt jobs |
| blacks on the homefront | benefitted from high-paying industrial jobs before closed to them |
| Operation: Torch | The Allied invasion of North Africa and Italy |
| Operation: Overlord | The allied invasion of France |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 |
| V-E Day | May 8, 1945 |
| Teheran Conference | Allies agreed to invade France |
| Yalta Conference | Fate of post-war Europe is decided |
| Potsdam Conference | marked the end of cooperation between east and west |
