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| Army Chief of Staff General who pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) in 1942 |
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| Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) |
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| U.S. army unit created during WWII to enable women to serve in noncombat positions |
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| president & founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, nations most respected African-American labor leader |
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| U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in WWII |
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| Office of Price Administration (OPA) |
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| agency established by Congress to control inflation during WWII |
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| War Production Board (WPB) |
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| agency established during WWII to coordinate the production of military supplies by U.S. industries |
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| establishing of fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military |
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| American General who commanded Operation Torch |
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| June 6, 1944;; first day of Operation Overload |
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| General who on July 25, provided a gap in the German line of defnse that allowed George Patton to reach the Seine River & later liberate Paris |
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| General who led the Third Army in liberating Paris in August 1944 |
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| month-long battle of WWII in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war |
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| Victory in Europe Day;; May 8, 1945 |
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| General in command of Allied forces in the Phillippines |
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| commander of American Naval forces in the Pacific |
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| WWII battle that took place in early June 1942, Allies decimated the Japanese fleet at Midway then took the offesnvie in the Pacific to move closer to Japan |
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| involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target |
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| American scientist who led development of the atomic bomb |
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| important Japanese military center on which Little Boy was dropped by the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945 |
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| city on which the second atomic bomb Fat Man was dropped on August 9, 1945 |
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| court preceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes |
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| Servicemen's Readjustment Act, 1944 law that provided financial aid & educational benefits for WWII veterans |
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| civil rights leader who, in 1942, founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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| interracial group founded to work against segregation in Northern cities |
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| confinement or restriction in movement, especialy under wartime conditions |
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| Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) |
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| organization that pushed the U.S. gov't to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during WWII |
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| international peracekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security & economic development |
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| countries dominated by the Soviet Union |
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| taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries |
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| phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1945 to describe an imaginary line that seperated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe |
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| conflict bewteen the U.S. & Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted the other on the battlefield |
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