| A | B |
|---|
| Henry J. Kaiser | Had important naval-ship building company. |
| A. Philip Randolph | Head of brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. |
| Douglas McArthur | Commander of American Forces, Pacific Theater |
| Chester W. Nimitz | Naval Admiral, high-grade naval strategist |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | General, Commander of all Allied Forces, eventually became President in 1952 |
| Joseph Stalin | Head of Soviet Communist party during WWII |
| George S Patton | Comander of American forces in Africa |
| Thomas E. Dewey | Popular vote getting New York Governor but could not defeat Truman |
| Harry S. Truman | Succeeded FDR, ordered bombing of Hiroshima |
| Albert Einstein | German scientist that created ideas for atomic bombs |
| War Production Board | Changed America into a war economy. |
| Office of Price Administration | Regulated war prices |
| War Labor Board | Imposed ceilings on wage increases. |
| Smith-Connoly Act | June, 1943, (anti-Strike) Act was passed by Congress. Federal government can nw seize and operate tied-up industries. |
| Braceros | Mexican agricultural workers brought across the border to help grow fruit and grain. |
| Fair Employment Practice Commission | Monitors the compliance of Employment with Roosevelt's edict. |
| Casablanca Conference | Between Winston Churchill and Roosevelt, stepped up to the pacific war, invade Sicily, increase pressure on Italy, and insist upon surrender. |
| Second front | More troops to invade and fight the war, this was not established early enough. |
| Teheran Conference | Nov. 28-Dec. 1 (1943) Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. Went over attack plans on Germany. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944; one of the most devastating aspects of the war: invasion of the peninsula of Normandy. |
| VE-Day | Victory upon Europe Day, Germany's government surrendered. May 7, 1945 |
| Potsdam Conference | Held near Berlin in July 1945, issued a stern ultimatum to Japan: Surrender or be destroyed. |
| VJ-Day | Victory on Japan Day-- the most horrible war in history had ended in two atomic mushroom clouds. |
