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| Victory Gardens | These were also called War Gardens, grown by Americans to help with the food supply during a period of rations. |
| Enlistment | The military saw an increase of this in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Over 5 million Americans volunteered for military service |
| Normandy | The invasion at this location is also referred to as D Day, June 6, 1944,. This began the effort to liberate Western Europe. |
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese forces attacked this military base on December 7, 1941. As a result of this attack, the US officially entered the war |
| Tuskegee Airmen | group of African American fighter pilots in the US army Air Corps. They escorted pilots on bombing missions. |
| Harry Truman | President after FDR. He approved the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
| Midway | This battle is considered the turning point of the Pacific Theater. Americans broke the Japanese code and resulted in destroying 4 Japanese aircraft carriers. |
| Manhattan Project | name for the development of the atomic bomb. The first successful test took place in New Mexico, 1945. |
| Eisenhower | WW2 general led the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe--Operation Torch and D-Day major successes. |
| Vernon Baker | This First Lieutenant was awarded the Medal of Honor by Bill Clinton for his efforts in WWII. He was in the all-black 92nd Infantry. |
| MacArthur | This general commanded the US forces in the Pacific Theater. He later was in charge of the US occupation of Japan and early days of the Korean War. |
| Executive Order 9066 | permitted the military to require Japanese Americans to relocate to internment camps in the US. |
| Flying Tigers | These were the volunteer American flyers supplying the Chinese with war materials. They destroyed over 300 enemy planes and raise morale |
| GI Bill | Law passed in 1944 to provide returning servicemen educational opportunities, low interest loans and unemployment insurance |
| Navajo Code Talkers | These Native Americans devised a code for transmitting messages in their language on the front lines of the Pacific Theater. |
