| A | B |
|---|
| Nisei | Japanese born in the US |
| rationing | Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American General became Supreme Allied Commander;organized d day |
| George Patton | American General who helped liberate Paris |
| Harry S Truman | President who succeeded FDR |
| Battle of the Bulge | German counter-offensive; Germany's last defeat |
| V-E Day | May 8, 1945; Victory over Europe |
| Yalta Conference | Secret meeting of FDR, Stalin, and Churchill |
| United Nations | international organziation formed in 1945 |
| D-Day | Allied invasion to liberate Europe |
| internment camp | Japanese Americans were put in the central US locations |
| Navajo | used as code talkers during WWII |
| Operation Overlord | code name for the invasion of Normandy France |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol used on posters to show patriotic women working in constuction |
| Japanese Americans | group discriminated against in the United States |
| Iwo Jima | battle where Americans struggled to take Island; memorial of marines raising the flag exists in Washington DC |
| Stalingrad | Germans forced to retreat; Soviet Union had heavy causualties |
| Operation Torch | code name for the invasion fo North Africa |
| Italy | the soft underbelly of Europe |
| government issue | what GI stands for |
| Zoot suit riots | altercation between Mexican Ams and police in Los Angelas which spurred fights all over the country. |
| Executive Order 8802 | issued to prevent discrimination in defense industries |
| Executive Order 9066 | interned Japanese Americans |
| Doube V Campaign | begun by Black newspapers to highlight racial issues |
| CORE | organization that promoted racial equality |
| Korematsu v. United States | upheld the legality of the internment of the Japanese Americans |
| STalingrad | battle at which the Germans were halted in the USSR |
| El Alamein | Battle in N. Africa where the allies were victorious |
| Anzio | Bloody allied victory in Italy |
| A Phillip Randolph | Black Am. who led marches; even cancelled a march after the Executive Order 8802 |
| China | a ban on immigration from this country was lifted in 1943 |
| Tuskegee Airmen | African American pilots of the red tails with an exemplary flying record |
| GI | nickname for soldiers (came from standard clothing they were given) |
| The Big Three | Churchill FDr & Stalin |
| Germany | At Yalta, they decided this country would divided into 4 sections after the war |
