| A | B |
|---|
| General Douglas MacArthur | Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, led D-Day invasion |
| President Harry S. Truman | made final decision to drop atomic bomb on Japan |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of female factory workers doing their part to support the war |
| Franklin Roosevelt | US President during most of WWII |
| Winston Churchill | Prime minister of Great Britain |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of Soviet Union |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Germany |
| World War II | Ended the Great Depression |
| D-Day | American invasion of German occupied Normandy, France |
| Causes of WWII | depression, fascism, unemployment |
| Nisei | First born Japanese Americans |
| Nazi leaders | Prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | 1st two cities to suffer nuclear attack |
| Office of Price Administration (OPA) | Sought to control inflation through price freezes |
| Manhattan Project | code name of the atomic bomb program |
| Selective Service System | expanded the draft and eventually mustered 10 million soldiers |
| rationing | method used to decrease the use of scarce and essential wartime goods |
| Women's Army Auxiliary Corps | gave its members official status and salary, and, a year later, granted them full U.S. Army benefits |
| George Marshall | pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
| A. Phillip Randolph | strongly encouraged President Roosevelt to issue an executive order discouraging discrimination in the workplace |
| War Production Board (WPB) | assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime industries |
| Office of Scientific Research and Development | was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of "wonder drugs" such as penicillin that saved countless lives |
